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| Bang & Olufsen beolab 90 $115,000 Pair @jon_5912 wrote: luxury = marketing to idiots. It's selling the sizzle with no steak. It's been around a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays I'm assuming you haven't listened to these speakers. The BeoLab 90's ar... | |
| Paper cone drivers/natural materials If precision in time keeping is the foremost goal one might as well buy a cheap quartz watch. Mechanical watches are imprecise by nature, so buying them for thousands of $$ is about something else. Re: cone material in woofer/mids and its sonic i... | |
| Which pair of speakers changed your Hifi life? While I didn't own the following speakers mentioned, they had a lasting impact on me: Yamaha FX-3. Heard them at a local dealer in 1980 with my brother and father playing the then recently released Pink Floyd double LP 'The Wall' - "Another Brick... | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? @jhills -- Last word in efficient or not, I prefer the big open and natural sound of electrostatics and planers over boxes, hands down, but that’s just my personal preference. Absolutely fair. Being natural representatives of the (very) high ... | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? @jhills -- Making this about low efficiency speakers/higher power SS amp vs. high eff. speakers/low power tube amps is not the strictly defined combo context here, but rather low vs. high eff. speakers - certainly per the OP. It makes sense using... | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? @lonemountain -- I think your post makes my point. Efficiency alone is not the sole issue or a spec to chase. Amp power, purpose and many other factors matter a lot. In live sound, 127dB SPL is important. In home audio, its damaging to our heari... | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? @lonemountain — This whole efficiency argument is twisted a bit by marketing. A designer liek Doug will tell you if you want additional low end from a driver, you can optimize t for this but the efficiency will decline. That’s a matter of size... | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? @audiokinesis — Thanks for your informative post. Stereophile’s attempt into debunking thermal modulation doesn’t surprise me.. | |
| Turn down the Volume! @mijostyn -- What about the rest? Every little detail is important, some more than others. ... I didn't address my question about "the rest" to you, but rather aimed it at a general tendency in audiophilia to be less invested in a range of cor... | |
| Turn down the Volume! @mijostyn -- an actual live acoustical reference certainly is the goal, at least as far as I am concerned. The problem for all of us is that a live acoustical reference is a moving target and ones that are not electrified into oblivion are hard ... | |
| Turn down the Volume! @bkeske -- For me, it’s simple. I raise the volume to the point of the music, whatever it may be, sounds realistic and actually scales per the performance. If it is louder, it seems artificial and too large, too quiet, the opposite. Exactly.... | |
| Turn down the Volume! There certainly are more fitting volume levels depending on the source material, as has been pointed to - for some musical content more rigidly than others. Watching movies the reference volume level is adjusted from the most natural dialogue repr... | |
| How many speakers and AMPS do you own, and why? Just recently sold off my second pair of speakers which I had stored up in an adjacent room (not part of a second(ary) system). I only have one setup and listening room, that’s it; one pair of main speakers + a pair of subs, and three stereo amps ... | |
| Subwoofer with Floorstanding Speakers? @bigtex22 -- Still enjoying my Sonus Faber Olympica Nova Vs in our den where I mostly listen to jazz. However…I had a nostalgic experience tonight and streamed up some Def Leppard and cranked it LOUD. With this kind of rock, I am missing a littl... | |
| Do audiophiles creat the high prices we complain about. Do audiophiles creat the high prices we complain about. I do think we do it to ourselves by greatly considering pricing when we buy. A manufacturer has to have certain price points or their gear wouldn’t be considered worthy. I have had audio... |