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| Quest to find a decent sounding ,picture Blu-ray player I couldn't quite pull the trigger on a UB-9000, but I am very pleased with its little brother the Panasonic DP-UB820-K. Listed at $499, I found it on sale for $399. | |
| What audio aspect are you knowledgeable in? In the last 48 years I've made my living doing everything from live sound, rock & roll roadying, acoustical consulting, professional systems design and installation, design, manufacturing of speakers, selling HiFi, owning a HiFi store, scroung... | |
| Better/best fullrange nearfield speakers? KEF LS-50s with a REL T/5 or the new KEF KC62 subwoofer | |
| Need recommendations for 20' speaker cable GearIT speaker cables from our friends at Amazon. 25ft 10Ga OFC woven jacket w/Gold plated banana terminations and wire boots will run you a whopping $42.99, delivered if have Prime.I use these with my system and have no complaints. I used the cha... | |
| Turntables.....A point of diminishing returns? To me answers to these kind of questions fit best on an S-shaped hysteresis curve with a few inflection points. #1 at about $600, the Project Debut Carbon Evolution has set a pretty high bar for an entry level turntable. #2 Midway up the curve at ... | |
| Maggie LRS so ridiculously good My LRS are my 3rd pair of Maggies. Back in the 70s I had a pair of MG2167s driven off an HK Citation 16. My co-workers at the time were all into big Altecs, Barcelonas and 604s. The had never heard anything that could do what Maggies could. But wh... | |
| Integrated Amp Question for a Newbie to the Forum You can't go wrong with either the Luxman or the Mark Levinson. I've own-ed Luxman gear before and never regretted it. My personal choice here would be the ML 5805 if for no other reason than I've never owned a piece before.My outlier pick would b... | |
| Perfect Speaker Placement - Put next to the back wall as much as possible. In a perfect world your room dimensions would be 14.5 X 23.5 X 9'. That gets you the Golden Ratio in all 3 dimensions, and a good starting point. Unless you use the Bolt method, in which case it's off the chart. Go figure. Literally. You still nee... | |
| 2021 audio system wish list Acoustical treatment in both my living room and media room. Maybe add a sub to the living room system to fill out the bottom end of my LS50s.As for Covid - my New Year's wish is to get vaccinated, and for those who still don't think Covid is any w... | |
| Inexpensive MM Cartridge I'm a big Grado fan, but for this table, given the age and arm mass, I'd tend to lean towards an Audio-Technica, or maybe an Ortofon 2M Red/Blue. Just seems like an appropriate match. Back in the day, We sold tons of PL12Ds as our entry level tabl... | |
| Do speaker wires matter The Mirage M1s are an interesting speaker. Not only are they big and heavy, they are dipoles - they radiate both forward and backward. As a result, speaker placement is absolutely critical - they cannot be placed up against a wall with any expecta... | |
| Okay, How Important Is Speaker Break In? (Dynaudio Contour 60i) New speakers are like a new pair of jeans - the material in the surrounds and spiders are stiff and need to loosen up with wear. No magic, just materials science. Paper surrounds requires more break-in than butyl rubber, foam is in between. Down t... | |
| Should mags review stuff not easily available As an ex-hifi store owner, I can tell you it's always a balancing act between what sells in the mid-market in sufficient quantity to make the business viable, and the really cool stuff that actually excites you. It takes a major market to support ... | |
| Easily the best and most significant sonic tweak one could ever make! Before you drop $3K to 5K on hearing aids, check out Nuheara. They have been widely reviewed and have won multiple awards. For $400 you get first class noise-canceling earbuds, Bluetooth, and excellent hearing aids that you self-fit using a versio... | |
| What speaker – under $10k – has the best timbre and tonal qualities? There are boxes and there are panels. I've owned both. Some large, some not-so-large, some efficient and dynamic, some polite and restrained. But the question at hand is timbre and tone. And here to my ear, the choice is simplified. A box will alw... |