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| Talon Khorus - Why So Many So Cheap? Now, I've only heard the (original) Talons once at a dealer (on a very nice Wadia/Rowland setup), but I'd have to say that, if I had $3-4k to spend on a new pair of speakers and a room to fit them, I wouldn't hesitate at all to grab a pair at that... | |
| Is 2 channel dead? Well, at least no one feels defensive about this. That's a relief. | |
| Thiel 2.3 amplification Been driving mine with a Bryston 4b-st for about three years and it works just fine as far as I am concerned. There's been a lot of chatter about driving Thiels here over the years -- some folks swear by Krell, while some will tell you to avoid th... | |
| Best drink while listening to your rig? Single Malt: these days the bottle getting the most exercise is an Aberlour a'bunadh.Beer: I'll have to second the Belgians, Leffe Blond is good and I'm still partial to the Chimay.Newest mania: Tres Generationes Anejo tequilla. | |
| Weird question Ha! As long as you manage to keep you face out of it, you should be fine. Generally speaking, things like eyes tend not to react all that wonderfully to having lasers shined into them willy nilly. We are, after all, talking about a laser.... | |
| Retail Buying - Reality Check Personally, I feel no obligation to subsidize local high-end dealers out of either some bizarre form of guilt or because, for some reverse-trickle-down, voo-doo-esque theory that I don't buy, I believe I am subsidizing the entire high-end industry... | |
| What is pink noise? Ok, this is fascinating. Since we've gotten the attention of folks who genuinely know their stuff, I've got one more that's been puzzling me -- "brown noise."I'd never heard of this before geting thay Ayre burn-in disk, which has tracks of white, ... | |
| Stinkin' Meridian "System Remote" Some good thoughts. What does the "standard issue" Meridian CD remote look like, anyway -- I only got the system remote?I like the Philips insight. Simple, elegant, cheap.As for these honking, USB-connected, flash memory toting, back-lit, programm... | |
| alternatives to spikes on wood floors? Hey, maybe it's just me -- or, more likely, the exceptionally spongy nature of my floor "hardwood" floor -- but I've had my Thiel 2.3's on spikes, and the spikes on pennies, for about three years. So far, the spikes have literally drilled through ... | |
| Does anyone's cable TV provider offer HDTV? Here in NYC, Time Warner has a digital cable package that includes a HDTV set-top converting box for no extra charge. I think they're carrying four or five network channels with limited HDTV content as well as HD HBO and Showtime channels. Here ab... | |
| isolating a tube problem - ARC LS5 preamp The easiest way, since you've got a noisy tube in one channel (which you almost certainly do), is to switch the tubes between the channels in pairs, one pair at a time, until the offending bits move -- and there's your bad apple. That said, I tend... | |
| Red Rose Anyone? Heard his ribbon monitors (the R3?) at the Stereophile show in NYC the year before last, driven by a Red Rose amp and preamp (and, if memory serves, either an Electrocompaniet or Audio Aero CDP). Sounded pretty darn wonderful. In fact, stood out a... | |
| Thiel or Meadowlark? Seems I've been listening to Meadowlarks next to Thiels for a couple of years, on and off. Seriously A/B'd some Thiel 2.3s and some ML Hotrod Shearwaters for quite a while -- bought the Thiels (and wrote a bit about what and why on a thread called... | |
| Good speakers for Pass Aleph 3? The three I'd been oggling for an amp of that stature are offerings from Silverline, Soliloquy and Meadowlark. Haven't got anywhere as far as experimentation goes, though, just thoughts at this stage.... | |
| Ever Have One Of Those Evenings? Man oh man. I've had a bass radiator on a pair of Thiels come unglued and fried one of their coaxial drivers (unrelated, both replaced); had a muting switch on an amp go so that it made the speakers sound like they were being torn in half whenever... |