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| high end speakers are overpriced @kenjit re High end speakers are priced far higher than they cost to make. This is greediness. You seem to think that profit is a dirty word. There is often a large amount of work, R&D, startup costs and risk to bring a product to market. The ... | |
| Larsen speakers ... anyone here heard or owned them? Interesting, but in my experience all really good speakers and front ends are dependent on good source material. Highly revealing front ends and speakers reveal all the defects in bad recordings. | |
| How I'd spend money given no limits It’s like some crazy harem of sound.LOL! | |
| high end speakers are overpriced Here you go, kenjit OPHillbilly Surround System! FUGLY as heck, and probably sounds like crap, but he durn well made hisown self.After a pint of corn likker (white lightnin') these will sound like Magicos or Rockports, right?https://youtu.be/bli6T... | |
| How I'd spend money given no limits I have my Lotto Wish List but I am sure it would change after auditioning gear:Monoblocks: maybe Soulution, Pass, Constellation, Ayre or the like, or D’Agostino if I want that steampunk/Jules Verne look!Vandersteen Kentos or 7’s (paired with their... | |
| As Advised, Starting With Speakers First. high-ampYes, Definitive bought out Advanced iirc, but the sign on the store still says Advanced Audio. Their website must have been merged with Definitive. I’ve been wanting to go to Hawthorne and audition Larsens, but they were shut down for mont... | |
| As Advised, Starting With Speakers First. Gig Harbor Audio is a cool dude store, casual and fun. I listened to Harbeths there fed by a reel-to-reel. They have beer on tap!"My" dealer is Advanced Audio in Tacoma. Victor and Bob are great. 253-472-3133. I bought my Vandersteens there and my... | |
| Larsen speakers ... anyone here heard or owned them? vinylvalet Definitely two things in their favor, that you don’t have to put them far out in the room, and the "wife/partner acceptance factor". The Larsen 9 is really gorgeous ... I’d put them in any living room. I was told by the distributor tha... | |
| The survival of the fittest. @kenjit Are you just a troll? This is absurd. It's all marketing obviously. What else is there? There are no measurements to prove performance so it's all just word of mouth and reviews. Do not buy high end speakers. | |
| Larsen speakers ... anyone here heard or owned them? I'm gonna find a pair to audition! | |
| I was told to put Kitty Litter in my new speaker stands. Was he joking? BWAHAHAHA!Grampa’s ashes in the left stand. Grandma’s in the right. Keep ‘em close. Keep ‘em tight. | |
| DAC Choices - $5,000 to $7,000 I know several people who have the Chord Hugo TT2 in excellent systems, and really like it. Combined with their M-Scaler upsampler, it’s supposed to be amazing but that doubles the cost to over $10k.I would be very interested if I had the dough, b... | |
| Researching an "affordable Roon server/streamer, and my choice... @arafiqThe only compromise is that I really wanted a one box solution. I’m glad to hear this! I don’t think the Sonore stuff is lacking in any way, at least when compared to Zen III. | |
| Researching an "affordable Roon server/streamer, and my choice... tcatch Glad it's working for you! I trust that Innuos machines sound good. My DAC/preamp has I2S and that was a reason why I almost got the Wyred4Sound. I'm about $15k short of the dough I "need" for my ideal system. First world problems. | |
| Researching an "affordable Roon server/streamer, and my choice... sebrof Hi - Which Innuos, and are you running it as a combined Roon Core server + streamer? That was my goal, rather than having a separate Core and streamer/endpoint (and def don't want Core on a computer). I compromised, because while I could ru... |