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| Versatile, non-fatiguing speakers for a small room under $1500 used or new: advice needed! While they are not very sensitive around 82-84db and require a fair bit of power, they have a pretty easy impedance curve and nominal impedance around 8 ohms ... from https://www.stereophile.com/content/atv-scm7-v3-loudspeaker-measurements .... "t... | |
| Versatile, non-fatiguing speakers for a small room under $1500 used or new: advice needed! @op I have pretty much the exact same setup in my 2nd room. 10 x 14 with speakers on the long wall. I have gone through many pairs of speakers there and my favorites in that kind of space so far are ATC SCM11 v2’s or the smaller SCM 7’s. They are ... | |
| Devore Fidelity Orangutan O/96 @prof @fsonicsmith Thanks for verifying what I heard re O/93 soundstage depth - I guess it was more than just my placement. Guess I am realizing that soundstage and imaging are pretty important for me. Because the O/93's otherwise sounded great. | |
| Devore Fidelity Orangutan O/96 Recently auditioned a pair of O/93’s in my house alongside my Line Magnetic 805ia 48W SET amp. (Previously using Spendor A7’s). An intoxicating wall of richly textured sound would be my summary. But they were on the long wall with limited space be... | |
| If a speaker stand is mass-loading, how much does it matter what they're made of? So I have owned a number of stands in this price range. Skylan is overrated imo. People love or hate the aesthetics but these Solid Steel were actually the best stands I ever used (I have floorstanders now):https://solidsteel.it/my-product/ss-5-vi... | |
| Spendor A2 vs A4 I own A7's in a 23 x 13 x 8 room. I would think that the A2's are too small in that room. (Aside: I am upgrading to D7.2's this fall).My only other comment is that I am surprised you got boomy bass from a combo of the A4's and Hegel H90. I have al... | |
| Who, do you think, designs the best looking tube-based devices? Line Magnetic | |
| Lively, fast & open sounding integrated under 3k? +1 on Belles Aria. Good fit for your requirements. Just reacquired one for my 2nd system.+1 on Hegel as a bad choice. While I wouldn't call it warm (nor would I call Aria warm), I do agree that it’s overly damped & flat/dense sounding(Have own... | |
| Rogue Sphinx or Belles Aria??? Owned a Belles Aria in my main system before moving to a class A SET amp. Foolishly sold it and have now repurchased for my second system (the exact same unit at no loss funnily enough). It’s a really solid integrated amp that might underwhelm on ... | |
| Prima Lunacy? (SuperTubeClock) Wow, there are some seriously misguided views on some Chinese audio manufacturers. Very sad. If you did any research, you would find that the two brothers who started Line Magnetic have a great track record and that the LM facilities are far from ... | |
| Best integrated up to $6000 Yes, LM805ia is in a whole other league than the PL amps. As you say, it's so obviously beyond the realm of A/B comparisons. It definitely gets my vote for best integrated under $6000. | |
| A warm DAC? Went from a Schiit Gungnir Multibit (R2R chip) to a Lampizator Amber 3 (DS chip + tubes) and it does everything so much better. I was shocked by the improvement having heard only small differences between dacs before. And I used to be a stickler f... | |
| Which one to choose between two 80K$ tube amps? It also has better control of bass than 100 Watts Rogue Cronus Magnum II fitted with KT120 tubes.I also own a LM805ia and agree that it’s bass control is really impressive. And this is even on the minimal NFB (negative feeback) setting. As mention... | |
| Aqua La Scala Optologic Mk2 on the cheap, used and sub $3000? @hudsonhawk You are right that most (delta sigma) chip based solutions would converge pcm/DSD to a single bitstream at some point internally. And you are right that at the end of they day it's more about overall execution than technology. I used ... | |
| Aqua La Scala Optologic Mk2 on the cheap, used and sub $3000? With all due respect, the Mojo does not play DSD format and thus DSD recordings. For it to play DSD recordings, they need to be converted to PCM first by some external process, like Roon. To somehow keep suggesting that the Mojo does in fact play ... |