mtrot
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| What speakers for 10k? Yeah, those Vapor Derecho sure look good at that price! Hard to pass up the Nimbus, though, for $3K more if you have the room for them. | |
| How good are recievers these days? A good used McCormack DNA-1 Deluxe should do you nicely. I have one and used it with my Onkyo receiver for quite a while before I got my Krell amp. Actually, I may go back to the McCormack. | |
| Acoustic Zen Crescendo Mk2 or Daedalus Ulysses v2 Geez, there are SO many great options out there, and now I have read reviews and user reports about another speaker that force me to give it strong consideration. It is the Vapor Audio Nimbus. Dang, great drivers by Acuton, RAAL, and that 15 inch ... | |
| Acoustic Zen Crescendo Mk2 or Daedalus Ulysses v2 yes, I actually have a pair of Audience 82 in the bedroom system,but I don't crank them very loud because my wife is usually in there with me, so I really haven't been able to get a good feel for whether they're going to have the sound I would lik... | |
| Acoustic Zen Crescendo Mk2 or Daedalus Ulysses v2 @Radiohead99,Thanks for the input on the Athena and Ulysses. Yeah, I'm reading that, for a system which includes both two channel and home theater, the Athena is better because of a wider dispersion. It seems the Ulysses may do better for people s... | |
| What is the best USED Speaker Under $10,000 @michaeljbrown,I feel your pain about not being able to audition many speakers, as I am in East Texas! I've been researching a lot lately on speakers under $10,000 as well. I recently got a Krell FPB400cx, so I should be able to power most any spe... | |
| Center for B&W DM603 purchased in 1997 "The main reason I want the center channel is that I have to turn the volume up on movies to hear the dialogue. Then I have to turn it down when there are special effects."A couple of cautions here. Based on my experience, a center speaker may hel... | |
| Acoustic Zen Crescendo Mk2 or Daedalus Ulysses v2 I guess I should clarify a bit. I didn't mean I was looking for the characteristics I stated above at the expense of other qualities of good speakers. I simply am looking for an overall good speaker that will be an improvement over my current spea... | |
| Acoustic Zen Crescendo Mk2 or Daedalus Ulysses v2 @Nek, I am in East Texas. Interesting that you wrote about running your mains as LARGE, as that is how I run my system. After a series of unsatisfactory center channel speakers, I just resorted to a "phantom" setup. And I also send the LFE to my L... | |
| Acoustic Zen Crescendo Mk2 or Daedalus Ulysses v2 Thanks for all the replies and info! @David12, I might have to check out those DA-RMAs. BTW, in perusing the Daedalus site in the past, it seemed to me that some of their speakers were for specific room types or specific applications, and I wasn't... | |
| Silver cables or copper?Any opinons. LOL, I thought you were serious at first! I personally am getting too old to spend too much time swapping out cables as opposed to enjoying music and movies while I still can. | |
| Got big amp-help with 20A line and receptacle Hi all, after speaking with the prior owner of the FPB 400cx and learning that he had good results simply plugging in to a standard household outlet, I did the same. So far, so good. It is clearly more powerful than my McCormack DNA-1 Deluxe, but ... | |
| What amp sounds most like Krell mcx monoblocks? @Yada, and others,"I agree that the capacitors in general have made great strides forward these past few years and if mine start to fail, I will not hesitate to replace them."As someone who just bought a FPB 400cx, I'd be interested in what are th... | |
| UP-OCC solid core copper for speaker cable @Brf,Yes, the low frequency run to my bi-wireable speakers. Currently using an old set of Esoteric stranded wire. | |
| UP-OCC solid core copper for speaker cable @Brf,Those do look interesting, but certainly much more expensive than the Neotech option posted above. In my case, I am only looking for cables for the low frequency run to my speakers. I can't see how the Audio Sensibility cables would be much b... |