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| Who tried Class D only to return to S/S or Tube It's interesting to follow the development and different incarnations of Class-D amps, and lately Devialet and in particular the NCore-based solutions have caught my attention the most - sadly not via auditions in my own setup. To me though the ch... | |
| What vintage speaker might you use today The age of speakers doesn't hold much interest to me unless where it's followed by a shift in design - at least that to me is what truly signifies a "vintage" speaker, when they eschew in central areas what is typically seen with contemporary spea... | |
| Danish loudspeakers: Dynaudio & System Audio Taters, ATC is not big time into marketing. As a result of that they don't appear on stereophile, TAS, RMAF, CES and the likes. In the UK, Europe and Japan they are extremely well respected, more than Wilson Audio btw. I would suggest instead of a... | |
| Danish loudspeakers: Dynaudio & System Audio 11-12-15: Wim1983@Phusis: The price of SCM SCM19v2 is out of my budget, ATC SCM19 closer to my budget, but I'm not convinced what are the special about these 2 versions? sparkling high with more air without sounding harsh? I thought ATC speakers s... | |
| Danish loudspeakers: Dynaudio & System Audio Wim1983 --Though they're not of Danish hands, how about looking into a pair of ATC SCM19's (or SCM11)? They are sealed-box speakers, and should mate well in limited space environments. http://www.whathifi.com/atc/scm19/review | |
| Solid State Amplifier Advancements In A Decade There's a difference between mass market products and high end audio components. What you are talking about here, applies mostly to lower end gear.Then, I'd say, you've only proven my point; progress is made mostly with mass (market) products in t... | |
| Solid State Amplifier Advancements In A Decade Capacitors and or other electronic parts alone make no sound and therefore have no inherent sound quality.Its how you put all the parts together in the design that results in "sound quality".Implementation is key, sure, but I guess the case could ... | |
| Solid State Amplifier Advancements In A Decade What about the capacitors in amps - have they improved in the latest decade (or more) with regard to sound quality/longevity? | |
| Does such a speaker exist? Zavato --If you can find them 2nd hand: S.P. Technology/Aether Audio's Revelation or Continuum. I'd say these speakers have the whole package; coherency, dynamics, musicality in spades, very open-sounding, capable of high SPL without strain, and b... | |
| Subjectivity As Pertains To Preamp Comparisons A $2100 component that performs head to head with a $10,000 one might as well be a $10,000 preamp.By that rationale I'd be sad to see Dave raise the price of the beloved 21-a from $2,100 to $10,000. A $2,100 preamp is a $2,100 preamp, end of story... | |
| Admittedly a bit lost Badri --In light of your circumstances with the Jolida tube amp and stated taste in music comes to mind the moderate to high-ish sensitivity (relative to the sensitivity of typical, direct radiation "hifi" speakers) Pendragon and Enzo XL speakers ... | |
| New Tekton Pendragons On The Way Sorry to hear of your delivery experience with FedEx, Stereo5 - and that it didn't pan out with the Pendragon's. I have speakers being built to in Brighton, England, and though I live in Denmark I'll gladly go on a roughly 1600 mile driving trip (... | |
| $15,000 Speaker Does Not List Freq Response Specs With "frequency response specs," do you mean curves (and +/- dB tolerances) or simply numbers indicating frequency extension up- and downwards? If the latter in particular I'd say specs are pretty much worthless. Of course a stated steep roll-off ... | |
| High End Speaker Prices 10-02-15: Johnnyb53[...]Audiophiles try to get reproduced music to match live music as much as possible [...]I would add a questionmark to that statement, followed with the reply: generally, no. Audiophilia seems the most interested in (re-)creati... | |
| Any thoughts on passive v. active speakers? I'm thinking about ditching my amps and cables and just buying an active speaker with a balanced input. I have a Krell 2250 and a pair of 140 watt Atma-sphere MA-1MKII. I desperately need speakers and cables, but not sure if I want to go through t... |