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| Spendor, Harbeth...why so hot ? It's a thread bump, but what the heck...I always greatly enjoyed Spendors and my friend's S100s were one of my introductions to high end audio (along with his Quad ESL 63s, which I later bought).I've had a pair of the small, classic 3/5s doing dut... | |
| Ugly vs Gogeous speakers Beauty certainly is in the eye of the beholder. James mentioned someone's wife dry-heaving over the look of the MBLs.The MBLs have always been divisive: as an example of more "way out there" industrial design, I actually find them beautiful. Pro... | |
| Thiel Owners Rob,No pops either with my 2.7 or 3.7s. I have CJ amps and pre-amp.Yes I'm still going back and forth between the 3.7s and 2.7s. 3.7s for the more relaxed (and slightly more resolved, I think) sound, effortless scale and soundstaging, 2.7s for t... | |
| Thiel Owners arniespin,If only it were that easy. The whole reason I’d considered selling them is that they are large enough to present an ergonomic/aesthetic problem in my rather idiosyncratic set up where they share space with a full surround home theater sy... | |
| Ugly vs Gogeous speakers I'm a sucker for a simple contemporary look with a beautiful wood finish, so here are some speakers I think look great:Tidal:https://i.pinimg.com/564x/07/ef/8c/07ef8cb965521e21e4283a62d1a7f332.jpgJoseph Audio Perspectives (I hope to buy a pair som... | |
| Ugly vs Gogeous speakers imhififan,Horrendous.A lot of these speakers are like a basement-dwelling engineer's attempt at making something that looks cool, but without any actual aesthetic or industrial design experience. They just end up looking ugos! | |
| How to transport used MBL 101 speakers w/o crate? I would have an opinion, but I'm so blind with jealousy that I can barely write ;-)Where they the ones on Audiogon?FWIW...I have a pair of MBL 121 monitors. The reason I could afford them is that a dealer sold them to me really cheap. He'd shipp... | |
| Thiel Owners arniespinIt's sales like the one you got that will drive down the price of my 3.7s if I have to sell them!! ;-)Lucky guy.Sounds like you are well set up for the 3.7s. I'll be really curious what you think. I'm driving mine with 140W of conrad jo... | |
| Upgrade Thiel CS3.6 to CS6?? Interesting thread bump. And quite an education in how differently people can see things.d_edwards for instance saying the CS6 was a step backwards and the worst speaker Thiel ever made was bizarre. I'd compared it to the various Thiels up to th... | |
| Ugly vs Gogeous speakers I had to get rid of one of the most beautiful speakers I’ve ever had in my room - a pair of Audio Physic Scorpios in perfect room-matching ebony.I bought them because I’ve always loved audio physic speakers, the reviews were excellent, and they we... | |
| Thiel Owners jonandfamily.Wow, you got rid of the Revel Ultima Salon2s? Those are among the most universally lauded flagship speakers! And you probably know they were designed via the blind-testing facilities at Harmon. There's a big thread on them, along w... | |
| Thiel Owners I've had pretty much all my speakers shipped, usually from the USA to Canada. So far no problems, but I have to say if anything is going to cure me of my speaker obsession it's shipping and receiving - I think I'm done shipping big speakers! Wha... | |
| Thiel Owners jonandfamily.Man that's ruff! I can't believe they sold for that (admittedly, the lowest Tier finish but still...) I absolutely hate missing out on gear like that, which is why I often take a hit in paying more than others will if I really want ... | |
| Ugly vs Gogeous speakers Sound good, price is right. Who cares what they look like.Well, some people have taste. ;-) | |
| Ugly vs Gogeous speakers I'm very into the aesthetics of a speaker. There's nothing more droolworthy, gear-wise, than a beautiful speaker to me. Of course if I don't love the sound, the looks are meaningless in terms of my buying a speaker. I especially love the mating... |