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| Speakers - Your "Safest" Choice Well, looked at the very specific individual level, it's a fools game. You can't know for sure. But if you want to take a more rigorous look at the question, where you can come to some justified conclusion about the ODDS of someone hearing pleas... | |
| What would your "perfect speaker" sound like. A perfect speaker would reproduce some of the most important characteristics (to me) that I hear in live instruments: timbral complexity, richness, full, with dense, palpable imaging and presence. And yet with a sort of combination of clarity an... | |
| Thiel Owners Good price on some black 3.7s here: https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/650035322-thiel-best-speakers-of-all-time/ | |
| Upgradeitis Thanks crwindy! | |
| Upgradeitis @crwindy I'm curious: what did you think of the Vivid Audio oval? It's strengths and weaknesses? That was the first, earlier model Vivid speaker I encountered and they've clearly moved on in their cabinet designs. | |
| Have you found your "End-Game" speakers yet? I have. And it feels so good!!! You can never trust any audiophile's claim of having found "end game gear" until they are dead and buried. Until then, it's an open (and dubious) proposition :-) I'm sort of "end gamed" for the moment, having been mostly priced out of upgrades. ... | |
| Thiel Owners I only heard the 7.2s in an audio shop once, way back in the late 90s. But the sound is burned in to my brain - some Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck, sounded more live than almost anything I'd heard before. | |
| Thiel Owners Absolutely! Never Rush Perfection. The Audio Journey is a marathon. . Written by someone who has truly lived that philosophy :-) Enjoying listening to the Thiels by now, I hope? | |
| Thinking about a Steinway Lyngdorf system I've never heard the Steinway system, but I can say I lust after their gorgeous remote control! | |
| Am I broken? Am I stuck? Do I have to return my audiophile card now? Carpe Diem - If there is a deal there that allows you to do the move I would take it. Those opportunities don’t come up often. Yes there is the "rare opportunity" thing, if that's the case. I'm sure I'm not alone in still occasionally kicking ... | |
| Speaker that are 'KEEPERS" for the long haul!!! I've done a few massive searches over the years for The One, The Keeper speakers. I think the closest I came, sonically, were my Thiel 3.7s (magical match with my CJ tube amps). Unfortunately, aesthetically/ergonomically, they were just a bit ... | |
| Am I broken? Am I stuck? Do I have to return my audiophile card now? @bigfatpaulie Throwing more money at a DAC or power cables/audio cables...? Not what I'd suggest. But, hey, we all have our opinions. I fell in love with the sound of Devore O/96 speakers and was offered an in-home audition. I abstained.... | |
| Am I broken? Am I stuck? Do I have to return my audiophile card now? I was in a similar quandary. I'd gone back and forth between Devore and Joseph Audio speakers, ended up buying original Joseph Perspective speakers when they'd just come out with the new graphene version. My idea was to eventually send them for ... | |
| The Snob Appeal Premium Thank you very much @pennfootball71 I've been curious about the YG speakers (not in the market) and will finally hear some soon at a friend's place. I'm familiar with the Vivid Audio speakers sound. "Vivid" they are! I auditioned the Magico A... | |
| The Snob Appeal Premium @pennfootball71 Other speakers I heard and tried YG acoustics Carmel 2, YG acoustics Hailey 2.2, YG Sonja 2.2 Vivid Kaya 25 & 45, Vivid Giya G1 and G2 Dynamikks Athos 10 (best bang per buck) Magico A5 & Magico S5 Kharma Exquisit... |