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| My exp. with Focal Sopra No.2 , Harbeth 40.2, Passlabs XA30.5 and Hypex NC400 the reality is we have spent about $40k and more on cabling for our rooms, do you honestly think we would spend the moneyif we couldn’t hear the difference.Yes.Of course it’s possible for people to spend large amounts of money on imaginary benefit... | |
| Thiel Owners I believe I’ve finally made my decision after torturing myself between the Thiel 2.7s and the 3.7s for many months now.I’m going to sell my Thiel 3.7s!The 2.7s are good enough to keep blowing me away when I listen to them. I’ve had them up for a l... | |
| My exp. with Focal Sopra No.2 , Harbeth 40.2, Passlabs XA30.5 and Hypex NC400 audiotroy,I don’t think you are trying to hoodwink anyone and that you, like many into high end audio, are quite convinced about your experiences with cables and other such things. "If you lose information from point A to point B you are not going... | |
| My exp. with Focal Sopra No.2 , Harbeth 40.2, Passlabs XA30.5 and Hypex NC400 And of course, a high end dealer will be happy to sell you much more expensive cables ;-)tonediary...keep nugat's post in mind. Your wallet will thank you. | |
| My exp. with Focal Sopra No.2 , Harbeth 40.2, Passlabs XA30.5 and Hypex NC400 nugat,Agree with your general point, with the exception of spikes. Spikes will typically raise the speakers and changing the relationship of the woofers with the floor and especially the tweeter/mid level to the ear, it certainly can change the so... | |
| Any of you experiment with optimal VTA for Benz Micro Cartridges Ah...just had a conversation with my turntable buddy...he's saying if I find the 250 impedance setting on the phono stage maybe edging into a bit piercing it would only get worse using the MM input and going way up to 47k impedance. That seems to... | |
| Any of you experiment with optimal VTA for Benz Micro Cartridges @audiom3,@artemus_5 I've finally started listening to my new Transrotor turntable with my Benz Micro Ebony L cartridge. The sound is incredibly clear, spacious, focused and free of hash.Being a newbie, I'm still wondering about the recommendation... | |
| Help! Tweaking My Lovan Rack for new Big A**ed Transrotor Turntable! Well I ended up with this:Lovan rack: Top shelf reinforced with steel plate, bonded by wall-damp material. Rest of lovan racks damped with wall damp material, and wall damp material/sorbothane in the rack columns. That really deadened ringing v... | |
| Talon Khorus I would say: caution. Talon speakers were a divisive speaker. At least at that time some people raved them up as the next best thing - sort of the Tekton speakers of their day.When I got to audition some Talon speakers I was dumbfounded by how s... | |
| My exp. with Focal Sopra No.2 , Harbeth 40.2, Passlabs XA30.5 and Hypex NC400 Good report.That sums up my experience comparing Harbeth to Focal speakers as well. (I did a lot of speaker auditioning in the last 2 years). | |
| Do You Care About AESTHETICS? What Are Your Gear/Listening Room Preferences?... douglas,Yes I understand the utility of exposed screws. But still some manufacturers seem to care about the fact they are not aesthetically nice to look at. Monitor Audio, for instance (as one that comes to mind) manages to hide the screws. Oth... | |
| I think I've Just Seen Absolute Proof That Audiophiles Are Insanely Gullible Good find on the VR wire upgrade, Geoff!If there is a money-grab any more explicit and extensive than high end cabling it's hard to think of what it would be. But...audiophiles willing to pay those prices are just as much part of the problem as th... | |
| I think I've Just Seen Absolute Proof That Audiophiles Are Insanely Gullible I've been into high end audio for about 3 decades, yet I'm still able to be shocked by the price of some gear.Case in point:https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lis8f62g-voxativ-ac-4-full-rangeAlmost $25,000 for a speaker driver.For. A. Speaker.....d... | |
| Thiel Owners Although I've been intrigued by the idea of hot-rodding my Thiels, it sounds like it's a lot of playing-with-fire. Something of a crap shoot in terms of ending up with similar tolerances/values for replacement parts, vs sticking with the original... | |
| Do You Care About AESTHETICS? What Are Your Gear/Listening Room Preferences?... I was just perusing the classifieds here and saw some speaker photos that really re-enforces my distaste for visible screws on speakers.For instance there is pair of YG Acoustics Carmel speakers. Apparently a great sounding speaker and generally... |