millercarbon
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| Move From AVR to Integrated? You have committed the fatal error of buying speakers less than 92dB. There's solid reasons I would never even consider yours at 86dB and now you know what it is: like feet cast in concrete you are going nowhere but down. A now tragic decision sin... | |
| REVIEW: Raven Audio Blackhawk Integrated, Soniquil Cables.... Is this the current Blackhawk MkIII or the earlier MkII? | |
| Receiver Separates DO work better! Its just that you have to go very, very far up the food chain for that to be the case. Where money and value are concerned, that is where integrateds really shine. The main difference is that with a stereo integrated amp... | |
| Mistakes I’ve made Playing a record one time went to flip it over, slipped out of my hands and flew behind the rack. Now has a tick. First thought no big, just buy another. Come to find out Lost on the River, the New Basement Tapes, what few copies there are on Disc... | |
| REVIEW: Raven Audio Blackhawk Integrated, Soniquil Cables.... So the moral of the story I guess, they can't all be Keith Herron. ;) Seriously though thanks for the follow-up. Not to discount your experience but people are only human and so as long as we don't hear more stories like yours maybe we can look o... | |
| Is this how a Subwoofer Crossover is supposed to work? The volume control that turns the sound to your speakers up and down must also be the one turning the sound to your subs up and down. Bingo! And I already provided the simple $2 solution to getting exactly that from his existing amp.https://www... | |
| Ideas on how to improve setup please Hard to know without hearing side by side of course but when the price differential is that great you will in general find the more expensive one is indeed quite a bit better. There's an awful lot of nonsense out there about wire, the worst being ... | |
| Tekton speaker comparison thread Not surprised. You are not the first lwin to say Tekton has the speed, clarity and coherence of ESL. There are quite a few comments out there just the same, including this one which the whole interview totally belongs on this thread: https://www... | |
| Notifications when someone comments on my virtual system What I do is check my system page many times every day. Its cool because after you do this a hundred times the count increases by .1 and you can imagine it was a hundred people instead of just you a hundred times. | |
| Receiver If you care about sound quality then you need to know the lowest component at the very bottom of the audio food chain is the AVR. Next up from that is the stereo receiver. All these things cram way too much stuff in way too small a box and with wa... | |
| Ideas on how to improve setup please Once you get fairly decent components then its generally better to get the most out of them before upgrading to more expensive components. Right now its almost like you have no wire at all, so that's first on the list. But then before say a new ca... | |
| Tekton speaker comparison thread Yes well it would be cool to compare. But when I think of how much work it is lugging 150+lb speakers, precisely positioning, then I think of the one guy whose opinion I trusted most saying don't bother (neither of us ever could figure out what is... | |
| 2021 audio system wish list Cut OC703 to fit directly on the furnace panels, preferably glued on. Then completely enclose them in a closet of 1/2" MDF. Or 5/8" sheetrock. With another layer of OC703 glued on to the inside of that. I did something like that with something a l... | |
| 2021 audio system wish list Will this be the year finally build diffusers? Raven Reflection? Power cords? Thinking of mounting crossovers on small BDR Shelf on a Townshend Pod. Still inside the cabinet. Upgrade phono stage springs to Pods. Would love to move it out but oh th... | |
| Tekton speaker comparison thread The Moabs in my room replaced Talon Khorus that were I think about $16k when new back about 20 years ago. The Talons replaced $2500 Linaeum Model 10 speakers from a small company in Portland, OR. Had JBL L7 before that. A hideously awful speaker i... |