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| Why are tweeters so high off of the ground in many tower speakers... We're gonna need a bigger couch! | |
| What's been your turntable ownership over the years? Sota Sapphire w/Sumiko MMT arm..... for nearly 30 years!!I am a gear nut, and I have replaced everything else in my system many times over, but I have never lusted to replace my SOTA.And let's please stop arguing if LP or CDs are better. Neither... | |
| Is there any advantage to lower efficiency speakers? 87 or below? Everyone is sort of missing the real cause & effect..... It's not impossible to make drivers and speaker systems that are 97dB efficiency, but they will have far from flat frequency response or tight transient response. (though they can still ... | |
| Why So Many Raidho D3's ? The important question is..... "What are they buying to replace their ex-Raidho's?? New Raidho's? Or something else?If they buy the newer ones.... that must mean they were pretty happy with the old ones, and simply have enough money to upgrade... | |
| Class D = Trash? I just recently tried out, and returned an NAD M22 amp. My 20 yr old Bryston 4B-ST was misbehaving, so i sent it to them for their restoration service (replacing ALL the electrolytics!). I thought it was maybe time to update to a new amp, and I'... | |
| When and how did you, if at all, realize vinyl is better? I LOVE BOTH !!There is both GREAT sounding music and BAD sounding music on both CD and Vinyl. Don't blame the medium! Any great sounding mix can be put on CD or Vinyl and sound great...... OR it can be poorly mastered, or over-compressed and sou... | |
| Why does bi-amping speakers sound better? I am not a fan of bi-wiring, but bi-amping certainly has its merits. Imagine what the power supply and power transistors are going through in an amplifier to produce full range music. For bass transients, you have large capacitors being depleted... | |
| Best standalone music server? Rip directly to the Sony Hap-Z1ES ??? Umm.... i don't see a CD drive on that thing. I'd likely buy one if it functioned as a CD player too. | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings Pitting Class-D against Class-A is not even a fair argument. When 95% of all mid-high end amps out in the world are Class-AB.... isn't that where the comparison should be? I have zero interest in owning a VERY inefficient and costly Class-A or T... | |
| Tyler Acoustics About 5 years ago i bought a pair of the big D-2's .... MTM center section and (4) 6.5 inch woofers each side. Tyler was a super nice guy to work with, and we worked out a great looking veneer selection. The speakers looked fantastic. But i sim... | |
| Your first component that was "special" An NAD 3020 integrated amp...... a super low-key 20 wpc amp that blew away my flashy 70 wpc Japanese reciever. As a 19 yr old college kid, it was tough to buy something that didn't look awesome, but I soon came to love the NAD look, and now equat... | |
| Best Preamp - NO preamp... (?) For me... bypassing the preamp has always been my "sanity check" for what the preamp is really doing, or not doing for me. I've never heard a preamp be MORE transparent than NO preamp.... but it often adds a little something here or there that is... | |
| What has your audiophile experience taught you about yourself? I love music and gear EQUALLY! .... and that's OK.We love music as an art form.... but good gear is an expression of art too. Ask anyone who designs or builds it. I admire of the form, function, and beauty of good speakers and electronics. I ... | |
| Visit to Magnolia Proves Interesting Wow... your Magnolia experience mirrors mine of about 2 years ago..... I still listen to 25yr old B&W matrix 801-S2's.... and I've tried several times to replace them.... to no success yet.... The Magnolia sales rep was great to me though... ... |