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| Which components knocked you out on first listen? HiFiMAN HE-1000 planar magnetic headphones at Axpona. Astounding! Audiophile cliches are actually justified for these: "Game changers"LISTEN to these if you ever get the chance. | |
| Hey Elizabeth Where you be?? I miss her too. | |
| Review: Intuitive Design/Pitcher Sound Labs Summit PSL 624 Speaker Will have to agree with the statement that "Dale Pitcher Rocks" posted by Bob Heinatz on 10/19/14. I just finished another late evening music listening session (last disc, Crosby, Stills and Nash, so sweet) and am now heading off to a peaceful slu... | |
| Review: Intuitive Design/Pitcher Sound Labs Summit PSL 624 Speaker Cdc,That's a loaded question. I listened to one of the above brands at the 2007 RMAF, quite briefly. They sounded quite good. The room was full of fascinated audiophiles. The sound staging was very precise and the detail was superb. However, they ... | |
| Review: Intuitive Design/Pitcher Sound Labs Summit PSL 624 Speaker Glaucon,Thanks for the detailed response. (You--or any other Audiogon member--can certainly call me Bill, by the way.) It's enviable that you have an Essence amp AND preamp! So, here are some more bothersome questions:1) Are you running a subwoofe... | |
| Review: Intuitive Design/Pitcher Sound Labs Summit PSL 624 Speaker Glaucon,I found your post the other day about the tweak with the Sheffield CD. Your ownership of Gamma Summits intrigued me, then I followed you back to this thread (I'm not stalking you, I SWEAR). This leads, rather circuitously, to a question:Di... | |
| Review: Morrison Audio Model 19 Speaker Welcome to the audiophile nirvana club! (NOT to be confused with the audiophilia nervosa club!) Your description of the Morrison Audio Model 19 Speakers' imaging capabilities immediately conjures up happy comparisons in my mind to what I've experi... | |
| Review: Intuitive Design/Pitcher Sound Labs Summit PSL 624 Speaker Wow, Bob! I thought you'd ditched them. I must say it's no surprise whatsoever that you're as pleased as you are with the outcome of having kept the Gammas. Your post highlights the fact that, although not hugely difficult to drive, the Summits DO... | |
| Review: Odyssey Audio KISMET MONO Amplifier Great review, and I read every word. You'll get absolutely NOTHING but STRONG agreement from me on the quality of Klaus' amplifiers. I have a modified version of the Statos Mono Extremes with some of the Kismet features (and no, I'm NOT sure exact... | |
| Review: Intuitive Design/Pitcher Sound Labs Summit PSL 624 Speaker "Bill, can you please tell me where you purchased those granite slabs. I cannot seem to find where to purchase them."Grannyring 06-17-12Grannyring (aka Bill),I'm pretty sure that THIS is where I got the plates. | |
| Review: Intuitive Design/Pitcher Sound Labs Summit PSL 624 Speaker Bill (aka Grannyring),Thank you for your kind words. You'll be able to make up your own mind this weekend. With respect to the review, it may (or may not...) be useful for you to look at the following update added above (in 2006) after over a year... | |
| Review: Mosaic Chimera Speaker cable Wow Sufur, sorry I missed your question until now! Yes, the Chimeras are still in the system and I haven't even considered changing them. I've also added one set of an earlier generation of Dale's interconnects to the system [in place of one of th... | |
| Review: Intuitive Design/Pitcher Sound Labs Summit PSL 624 Speaker Mine aren't the GAMMA Summits, but with the ORIGINAL Summits, in MY room (see Synopsis above) they're filled something like 2/3 to 3/4 full, I'd guess. Make sure to use DRY sand (think dessicated silica, for example, here), unless you enjoy the sc... | |
| Playback Designs MPS-5 vs. Cary CD-306 Amfibius,You'd be welcome to come and listen but I don't have the DCS stack and it's not a consideration financially for me either. I'm quite pleased with the DAC that I DO own, which is a Dodson 217 Mark II with 218-like upgrades and cryo treatme... | |
| Playback Designs MPS-5 vs. Cary CD-306 You may or may not have already heard of this and/or already done it or decided not to, but in just in case, here's a recent and potentially interesting discussion about an available upgrade for the MPS-5 unit. |