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| Thiel Owners @tomthielI would love to see such a list of ’best Thiel amps’. While I’ve had SS amps of various types, including the Bryston 4B SST for a while (driving various speakers, including Thiel CS6), I’m ultimately a tube amp guy. So my addition to the ... | |
| Thiel Owners I’m sitting here listening to vinyl on my 2.7s (Eddie Kendrick collection, among many others I’ve spun today) and the sound is so smooth, even, spacious, yet focused and punchy. That palpability the Thiels do is so mesmerizing, like a drum kit and... | |
| Thiel Owners Dave,Great story and it's wonderful to read how happy you are with the 2.4s. | |
| Small dedicated listening rooms One of the best high end sounds I ever heard were big MBL 101D speakers situate in a room that was hilariously small, truly "closet-like" and I think smaller than the OPs. But they were essentially nearfield, and the room well treated.I've heard... | |
| Contemplating DEVORE SPEAKERS (and others)....LONG audition report of many speakers Wish I could update the thread with impressions of my new speaker.But still got nuthin'.As I indicated previous, I had finally decided after my last listening comparison that I'd go for the Joseph speakers. I had saved up partially for them over ... | |
| A brief review of 15 high-end speakers on home demo including B&W, Boenicke, Magico,Wilson I have to say the most surprising-to-me description was for the Audio Physic Codex speaker: " But it lacked depth, the music was coming from a flat plane."Something had to be wrong with the set up. If there is a singular feature running through pr... | |
| What internet stations are you donating to this year? That's a terrific station.But the one I always donate to is:Luxuria Musichttp://www.luxuriamusic.com/Nothing quite like it, and it always puts me in a good mood. | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? cd318I'm somewhat puzzled by the fact it seems no one (or no speaker manufacturer I'm currently aware of) is doing the live vs reproduced tests for their speakers. (With the exception of the occasional live musician brought in for some audio show... | |
| Neutral or Detailed. You can't have both erik,To be clear: My argument was a sort of "in principle" argument. My example was using real life sounds as the stand in for "neutrality." An acoustic guitar played life is, in this sense, experiencing a "perfectly neutral" sound, in the se... | |
| Neutral or Detailed. You can't have both I can certainly see the point you are making erik, but like others I don't quite agree with your ultimate thesis here.Certainly a goosed upper frequency region can make a speaker sound more detailed at lower playback levels.But the move to "theref... | |
| How good is your hearing ? And how do you know ? @bdp24Understood.I've also used Musician’s Ear Plugs since the 90's. (Along with heavier duty earplugs if necessary). I'll still use them even in a pub/restaurant if it's really loud (and as I'm sort of a "foodie" who loves dining out, it's depr... | |
| What were your humble beginnings on the path to high end audio? My father was something of an audiophile, so I grew up listening to Kef 105.2 speakers and a Carver Cube/Holographic sound amp system.It sounded absolutely incredible.In the 90's I met my wife and when we moved in together she brought in a Harmon ... | |
| How good is your hearing ? And how do you know ? @bdp24I'm curious: when you talk about your high frequency hearing loss, did you mean it was already gone 30 years ago, or that now your hearing tops out at 15k? If it tops out at 15k now, and if you are middle aged, that's quite good.I'm almost... | |
| How good is your hearing ? And how do you know ? inna, you still seem to be stretching to come up with justifications for the fact you personally (apparently) just don’t like digital sources.You are just ignoring what I pointed out before; that analog involves gross changes of the form of carri... | |
| Road trip to demo $10,000 speakers It may seem like a simple, obvious suggestion but: don’t forget to bring a lot of music that you actually listen to. I think it’s tempting for us audiophiles when grabbing music to audition a system to gravitate to the really good recordings/audio... |