mikekollar
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| Products you added to your system in 2021 that made most impact to your music enjoyment Upgraded from Bowers and Wilkins 702 S2 speakers (nice speakers) to Legacy Focus XD speakers (in another world - Wow) Added Mini dsp with Dirac Room correction (another very noticeable improvement) And now here is where I will lose you all; and ... | |
| How do you know when a stereo sounds good? When you find yourself thinking back to how great Led Zeppelin and other former favorites used to sound so good and instead you are listening to Steely Dan who you never gave much thought to previously. Bottom line; when you find yourself much pr... | |
| Legacy Focus XD - will I ever upgrade? Right now, I am using the pre outs from a Yamaha AV Receiver into the emotiva pre amp with home theater bypass on. Then when switching to 2 channel audio, I turn off HT bypass which returns all controls to the pre amp where I have my streamer hook... | |
| Legacy Focus XD - will I ever upgrade? Thanks, will do. I would rather just have the wavelet as my pre amp but if there is no home theater bypass or similar, then the wavelet may have to become a device strictly used for its functionality for room correction, EQ, DAC, Punch etc and com... | |
| Legacy Focus XD - will I ever upgrade? Hi Steve, that was very helpful. Given that the dealer I purchased the Focus XD speakers from went on and on about how my next purchase needed to be the wavelet, I think maybe that would be the next place to start actually. I have a question for y... | |
| Legacy Focus XD - will I ever upgrade? My room is about 20 x 40 but the 40 flows into an open area in back. As to speaker placement, I have Zero Flexability. They are about 7 ft apart and my theater seats including the center seat is about 11 ft away from speaker fronts. As to which t... | |
| Legacy Focus XD - will I ever upgrade? That would be part of my problem..... if I go from 16k to roughly 30k, the speakers offered would be embarrassingly huge in my room. the focus was about 10 inches taller than previous speakers and I thought they looked pretty big but I have gotten... | |
| One big reason why brick and mortar high end audio dealers struggle. You know what, I love this post. We have a high end store in Gig Harbor Washington and the store owner is a dick. Always feel like I am putting him out every time i go there and i could buy anything in his store....almost. Anyway, I dont go there ... | |
| Looking for a SS integrated Amplifier recommendation going into a new system So..... I actually did an extensive 2 day demo in my home, blind side by side comparison of the Sierra towers with RAAL vs B and W 702 s2. You can see the results at AVS forum. Do a search on Ascend acoustics sierra tower vs 702 s2 and should pop ... | |
| Bad recordings and high end audio That is exactly right; case in point for me. Never really listened or cared much for Steely Dan. For decades,was just sort of ehh, catchy tune, whats next. But now..... holy crap, these recordings are unbelievable. love Steely Dan. Yes a great sty... | |
| Bad recordings and high end audio Well for what its worth, I love my Legacy focus xd speakers. 4 way design with 2 12 inch woofers in each to 16h, 2 midrange and 2 ribbon tweeters. the reviews were all correct in the end. great speakers. they better be at 16k | |
| Bad recordings and high end audio And that last comment by dodgealum1 is exactly right. In my earlier comment about comparing Radio head and def leppard recordings to led zep, I should have mentioned this: compare those recordings to "when the levee breaks". You know that the open... | |
| Bad recordings and high end audio Led zeppelin is my favorite rock band of all times. I was in high school when the bulk of their albums came out. Me and 4 other friends did what we thought was the first ever air guitar gig in front of a large crowd. We had professional band speak... | |
| Holographic Soundstage ? Interesting, I will have to look at these processors. What I can say about the carver c9 is this. My Emotiva pre amp has an external processor loop. That is where I have the c9 so it enables me to switch in and out from my listening position and y... | |
| Home Theater Bypass , why am I hearing this now. Sure it is.... at a minimum, you have to purchase the whip snappy AV Receiver 2K, 3k maybe. Then you get to purchase an expensive pre amp and an expensive power amp. BUT..... when you are done........ ooooh, so nice. Switch from Movie surround mod... |