mitchb
Responses from mitchb
| Hales Transcendence 5’s slight discrepancy I found a speaker builder, someone who sold me my speakers 21 years ago, who is going to measure and tune up and tighten my speakers so that they are in excellent shape. I even have the original crossovers for him to use as reference. I love my Ha... | |
| Keces BP5000 Balanced Power Transformer? I’m just waiting for the North American distributor of Keces to get more in stock. There were apparently improvements made to the new models and I wait to hear how it sounds with anticipation. | |
| Hales Transcendence 5’s slight discrepancy The speakers sound the same. Could there be a loose connection on my right double cable biwire speaker cables? I’m getting good balance between speakers even now the cables are swapped back. I’m really excited as my speakers are fine. I love my Ha... | |
| Hales Transcendence 5’s slight discrepancy With further diagnostics in switching speaker cables at the back of the amp I find both speakers identical! In swapping the speaker cables back I notice that there may be a little “noise” from the right channel of the amp which is normal so the le... | |
| Hales Transcendence 5’s slight discrepancy The right tweeter is brighter than the left. I attributed it to amp noise for years but since I got a new amp I notice the same discrepancy. It is light enough to be not noticeable from my listening position but I would like to get it fixed. I don... | |
| Hales Transcendence 5’s slight discrepancy As nice as my Hales sound they would probably sound better if more evenly matched. I love my Hales and would rather spend money on matching them than replacing them. My Hales may only be worth $2000-$2500 on the used market but they would cost a f... | |
| Hales Transcendence 5’s slight discrepancy The speakers sound very good. It’s just when listening to my speakers tweeters close up there’s a bit more brightness on the right tweeter but the two sides are close. Two feet back and they sound the same. After 21 years maybe it could be good to... | |
| Keces BP5000 Balanced Power Transformer? I’m still waiting on my Keces BP-5000. My Hydra2 which is in front of my amp and Hydra6 which is before everything else are nice. Would it make sense to piggyback Hydra’s after the Keces? | |
| PS Audio Perfectwave transport still good? I don’t have the benefit of the 30 day trial as I am in Canada. | |
| PS Audio Perfectwave transport still good? I have a lot of discs but I also have an Auralic Aries G2.1 streamer which keeps me busy. The PWT has a better tone by a little but the Aries may have better width in the sound stage. My amplifier is still new so play time will improve overall sou... | |
| X250.5 vs X250.8 I just received my X250.8 and it sounded good cold and new out of the box. I believe that the Pass Labs combo I now have with the XP-32 preamp and will be the last amp and preamp I will ever own. I now have my retirement system with my Hales T5’s... | |
| To Roon or not to Roon? I had to uninstall Roon from my computer in order to get proper performance from the Auralic Lightning app. Now it works fine with Roon completely uninstalled and deleted. | |
| Hales Transcendence 5 speakers endgame? I don’t know what SOTA stands for but in any case I would imagine that audio speaker technology would not have changed that much in the past 20 years. I could be wrong but the tweeters and midrange drivers in my Hales are still current and availab... | |
| To Roon or not to Roon? I tried to use Roon again and followed the instructions as told to me by a Roon rep by email and not only did it not work for me it screwed up my Auralic app which required to be deleted and reinstalled. I really would like to try Roon but it does... | |
| Keces BP5000 Balanced Power Transformer? I’ve put in an order for the new replacement for the Keces BP5000. There is supposed to be a new and improved unit coming out in April and I’m in for one. I’m very excited. In the very worst case scenario I will just put back my Hydra 2 and Hydra ... |