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| Speaker recommendation for married couple My wife won't try to stop me from any particular speaker purchase based on their looks, but she does care how a speaker looks and so do I. My listening room is the front living room of the house and I had originally chosen a decor based on brown ... | |
| VAC vs Conrad Johnson Amps? mechans,I'm investigating the idea of a VAC amp, but not sure I want to make that investment yet, which is why I'm seeking the experience of others. The buy-and-try price is very hefty for us Canadians!I do prefer Thiels on tubes (having heard th... | |
| Is Spiking Necesarry? goeffkait,I've never used that CD. Can you explain what type of tracks it has specifically to help locate the speakers properly? | |
| Thiel Owners frozentundra,Cool. I look forward to hearing my new Thiel 2.7s next weekend.I also have some "ear issues." I played for decades in a very loud band and acquired quite a case of Tinnitus and some hyperacusis (hearing sensitivity) came along for t... | |
| Thiel Owners jeff,Sorry, no system pictures. I don’t know if I’ll ever get around to that. (I think the pictures would look cool because I designed my room carefully/aesthetically for home theater and two channel, while having to be a "nice" looking room since... | |
| Thiel Owners jonandfamily,My own subjective impressions, especially of amplifiers, aren't much use to other people I think. We all have different tastes, different hearing, different criteria; what I hear as uninvolving will be someone else's musical nirvana.... | |
| Thiel Owners "Audio Research preamps ( slightly bleached tone to me)"That is always how Audio Research amps sound to me. From the day I first heard them in the 90's to even today (my pal uses Audio Research amps). There's just this sort of bleached sound - w... | |
| Thiel Owners Is it my imagination...or are there no speaker cables or amplification in that set up?What is Jafant powering the speaker with? | |
| Thiel Owners Jafant,I’m sure you’ve mentioned it in the thread somewhere, but what amplification are you using for your Thiel 2.4s? Did you go solid state or tube?I read through a lengthy thread on another forum about Thiels an amplification and it’s always in... | |
| Has anyone found Audio Nirvana? I distrust any audiophile saying he has reached "nirvana" or "the end" or his "last system" etc...unless he has had that system for at least 10 years.I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard audiophiles - friends, acquaintances, on-line e... | |
| The one that got away 2 come to mind:1. Early 2000's I had become obsessed with the MBL 101D speakers.I'd heard them in various places and they were my ultimate speaker, but way more than I could ever afford. Then, through an audio pal, I got word of someone selling a... | |
| Thiel Owners Audiogon is evil. I should never browse the listings. Saw an expensive VAC amp I'm lusting over. Must...resist..... | |
| John Atkinson's thoughts on the New Vandersteen System Nine from LA Show -- "A more hyped treble only does one thing to someone with no hearing loss - make them run out of a room."That's the type of..sorry to say...blinkered... approach to the subject that I was talking about. That's simply wrong, as plenty of speak... | |
| John Atkinson's thoughts on the New Vandersteen System Nine from LA Show BTW,The discussion as to "what sounds natural" vs "artificial, over-hyped" is one that interests me. You always see audiophiles - and reviewers - talking about some approach to speaker making being more honorable, and for those who really appreci... | |
| John Atkinson's thoughts on the New Vandersteen System Nine from LA Show erik,Your "stereophile curve" is an intriguing hypothesis...but I just don't see nearly enough data supporting it. And I very often see JA lauding a speaker when it measures very flat, so there's much counter evidence IMO. |