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| Are you as OCD as this audiophile? I am loathe to throw stones as I certainly can obsess like any other audiophile.That said, no I'm not OCD as that guy...at least not in the same direction.And when I see the super tweaky lengths many audiophiles go to in their system I'm glad I'm ... | |
| Am I hearing things (you don't) ???? @firstnotYes, I share your experience.It’s called "hyperacusis." A collapsed tolerance of sound, where sounds not normally perceived as "loud" by other people are perceived as loud by you. And usually this tends to occur in certain frequency range... | |
| Curious what people think is the best "value" high end speaker (~5K to 15K) @firstnotWhat did you think of the speakers in your list? | |
| JBL 4319...The Big Easy One reason I'm intrigued by JBL speakers is due to watching so many of the great KENRICK SOUND videos on youtube. As this article states:"Kenrick Sound is world famous for restoring and modifying legendary loudspeakers. The firm specializes in JB... | |
| JBL 4319...The Big Easy Excellent nonoise, thanks!I'd love to experience listening to a JBL speaker like that one. I'm sure it would do some things that my own speakers don't do as well. Ultimately for me such a speaker is never meant to be in my room - both in terms o... | |
| Accuracy vs. musicality jhills,Fascinating.My impressions of the Raidho monitors vs the Gershman speakers I've heard was precisely the reverse of yours.The Raidho sound actually has a reputation for not being in the "strictly accurate/neutral" school of design. They de... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom,Thanks for the link to that strata-gee article.Your previous post is now making some sense ;-)I'd followed all those strata-gee articles documenting the decline of Thiel as it happened. It was great that there was a writer interested in foll... | |
| Switching between 2 amps , 1 set of speakers? Douglas,I’m wondering: What experience do you have with switchers such as the ones linked to in this thread, or others? Or or do you mostly avoid them on priciple? | |
| Thiel Owners Tom,Also...after the Hale Transcendence 8's Paul built a new interesting looking flagship speaker, the Alexandra (or Alexandria), which can be seen down the page in this old CES 99 report:http://www.enjoythemusic.com/wces99/speakers.htmThe few peo... | |
| Thiel Owners Wow Tom, you've been around!I thought the bass on my Hales T5s was excellent, but thought the bass of the CD6 even better (more dense, focused, punchy) as well as the 3.7 and 2.7. | |
| Thiel Owners One of my favourite sounds are the times I used my little Eico HF81 14/w side classic tube amp on my big Thiel 3.7s!It was utterly glorious - rich, open, detailed, sparkly transients - they sounded even bigger than they ever had before.Really the ... | |
| Thiel Owners Anyone ever used to visit the old Thiel Web Blog? Hearteningly, it’s still actually accessible. It’s sort of fun...and melancholy...visiting some of those old posts. E.g.:http://thielaudio.blogspot.com/2006/09/http://thielaudio.blogspot.com/2006/1... | |
| Thiel Owners ish_mail,As I've mentioned somewhere earlier on the thread, I owned the Hales Transcendence 5 speakers, and still own a the Hales Transcendence 1 monitors and center channel, which do duty in my home theater and for occasional music listening. In... | |
| Is the Vinyl Revival well and growing? I've never really had problems with CDs, myself. Early on I used a Meridian 508.20 player and it sounded very nice and "analog" to me.I eventually sold it when I moved strictly to streaming to my Benchmark DAC, and that has always sounded wonderf... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom,Stereophile reviewed and measured the Meadowlark Shearwater speakers. 2nd page of measurements (and showing time coherence) here:https://www.stereophile.com/content/meadowlark-hotrod-shearwater-loudspeaker-measurements-part-2I had listened to... |