motokokusanagi
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| Best way to spend $1000 on used bookshelf speakers? @ohmy - before any model recommendations, I'd assess the following:room size and listening distancehow close to the walls and corners the speakers will be which music genres you enjoy mostwhich speakers you've heard that you likedwhich speakers... | |
| Issue with ProAc D40 speaker - any suggestions to resolve the issue @rcprince might be right. @listener111 mentioned previous diagnosis said tweeter wiring was loose. IIRC, Proac crossovers generally have the tweeters connected in reverse polarity. They’re probably attached using quick connects, so if you felt up ... | |
| Issue with ProAc D40 speaker - any suggestions to resolve the issue Sure thing. The crossover frequency should be between 2-4khz. You can verify any gross discrepancies in volume output using your phone, using the old speakers as a control, then the left and right Proacs, and both together. Find some percussive mu... | |
| Issue with ProAc D40 speaker - any suggestions to resolve the issue If there is a defect (hard to know without doing a frequency sweep and using proper measurement equipment), it may be a crossover component, wiring fault, or faulty driver. Caps are unlikely to just fail after being in storage for 1 year, but that... | |
| Streamers in the scheme of things. Always good to save money. Did you get the Moon and Bel Canto on a 30 day return basis? There's also a hat board called Pi2AES that may have been worth comparing.I wonder also if the max 192khz AES input of these speakers is a factor on levelling ... | |
| Confused as to where to go next...looking for warmth Andy, another option is a combined DAC-preamp straight into your power amp. Balanced outputs would be nice, too. Could make your budget go further if you get good synergy. Maybe a Mytek Brooklyn or iFi Pro iDSD; the latter offers a tube buffered o... | |
| Confused as to where to go next...looking for warmth I also suspect that the Arcam is letting the side down. However, there's an easy way to test by using the Bluesound (setting it to variable not fixed volume) straight into the Liberty. If the dark, sterile sound goes away, then sticking with the N... | |
| Mytek Manhattan or Berkeley Alpha or PS Audio Direct Stream I heard the Alpha 2 in a long demo. It has a high end sound that's resolving. neutral and detailed, but I found it uninvolving and boring! I prefer something more lyrical, I suppose, and would want something that blows my socks off for this kind o... | |
| Bryston BDP-π Um, the Bryston Pi IS a Raspberry Pi in a Bryston box, with a humungous markup. I’d look elsewhere for the performance to price ratio you want. You might look instead at the Auralic Aries G2.1, if going into a Dave or TT2. If Qutest or below, mayb... | |
| Streamer with AES3 Out and no DAC Sonnet (new brand from founder of Metrum) Hermes, but also uses apps for remote control. The Lumin Leedh voume control seems unique for streamer only devices.There’s also the Soundaware D300; less of a known entity - distributed by the Denafripps ... | |
| Sold my Linn Klimax Solo, now I wanted an Integrated Which Focals? Naim is a good match with them, generally, and also for your music styles. | |
| blu-ray/cd/sacd player with EQ or tone controls? Any recommendations please? The universal player Pioneer UDP-LX500 offers a sharp/soft/slow digital filter setting; that might give you the EQ options you need. It also has an "Audio Direct" setting to bypass all filtering.The Audiolab 8300CDQ (CD disc player and DAC-pre) of... | |
| Searching for a dac that matches the Marantz The new Denafrips Ares 2 and Sonnet Morpheus might be up your alley. Pure DACs not streamers, however. | |
| Simaudio Moon 600i v2 VS Naim Supernait 3 for Dyanudio C20s For one, you shouldn’t need to ask anyone which amp you preferred the sound of! You did the demos; you should have a good idea of how these amps performed respectively with soundstaging and separation. Second, it’s odd that you compare amps of suc... | |
| Simaudio Moon 600i v2 VS Naim Supernait 3 for Dyanudio C20s How comes you didn't answer this basic question from your own demos? You've auditioned two amps; one amp twice the cost of the other, and liked them both, and remain interested only in deciding between these two products. This thread is strange. |