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| Thiel Owners After Thiel, I did some consulting including Hales. Remember the mid 90s upper end Hales’ with cast baffles? That’s the stuff. Maybe not coincidently, Thiel and Hales were among my favorite speaker brands of the 90s and continue to be so. I owned... | |
| Joseph Audio Perspective2 vs Perspective My brother, a musician who loves coming over to listen to my system, has listened to every speaker I’ve ever owned. He was shocked by the Perspectives. Said it was probably the most amazing sound he’s heard in my room.I’ve owned many excellent spe... | |
| Joseph Audio Perspective2 vs Perspective Interesting that some of us Joseph Audio fans are also fans of Harbeth.Both brands have a "rightness" and believability in timbre and tone, yet at the same time have quite different "sound" or presentations.I'd like to own both, because I'm greedy... | |
| Joseph Audio Perspective2 vs Perspective I auditioned the Magico A3s (in a very nice set up) but preferred the Joseph Perspectives. For me the Magicos were impressive for the price, but were another "really detailed high end speaker," where the Joseph speakers did all that but with a p... | |
| Joseph Audio Pulsars with REL Sub or Perspectives in 11x11 Room? If it weren't for the current pandemic apocalypse (and hence lack of work) I'd have upgraded my Perspectives to the Graphene version by now. Ah well, lucky to have first-world problems.For now I switch back and forth between my Thiel 2.7s and the... | |
| Harbeth Super HL5 plus Break-in With tube amplification there is absolutely no way, grilles must go in the box. Ok, looks like our experiences differ.I auditioned the HL5Plus using solid state amps. And on my Conrad Johnson Premier 12 tube mono blocks, the Super HL5plus absolu... | |
| Harbeth Super HL5 plus Break-in Note that Harbeth speakers are designed to have the grills on. Most speakers designed to have the grills on are more accurate and smoother with the grills.Audiophiles are conditioned to search for ever more "transparency and detail" so "why would ... | |
| Albert Von Schweikert Has Passed Away I started my audiophile life with a pair of Quad ESL 63s and later added Gradient Subwoofers. Though I loved the transparency ultimately I began to miss the punch and presence of dynamic speakers. But anyone starting with Quads is then cursed by t... | |
| Spendor D7 vs. Harbeth Super HL5+ Some on the Naim forum liked the Kudos Titan 707 speakers more than the Spendor I've auditioned the Kudos Titan 505 stand mount and 606 floor stander.They are lively sounding speakers. But if I'm going lively, I prefer the Kudos sound to the Spen... | |
| Harbeth Super HL5 plus Break-in No break in on mine.The mind is a wonderful thing. ;-) | |
| Spendor D7 vs. Harbeth Super HL5+ fsonicsmithHow interesting that you bought the Spendors! That's a real change from the Devore sound!I like owning more than one speaker to have more than one flavour of sound available.As for Thiels: when Thiel introduced the 3.7 flagship speake... | |
| Harbeth Super HL5+ vs. Focal Kanta No.2 I've heard the Kanta 2 on Naim and Anthem amplification, and one other place, can't remember the amplification there. | |
| Harbeth Super HL5+ vs. Focal Kanta No.2 You like "sizzle" in your speaker's highs?Most try to avoid that. FWIW, I auditioned the Focal Kanta 2 in my speaker search a while back.They did the forward-sounding brilliant highs thing Focal always does, and sounded quite clean. But I found ... | |
| Spendor D7 vs. Harbeth Super HL5+ I have sympathy for those who own the D series telling us they are not off putting or bright.After all: I own Thiel speakers ;-)But I can guarantee that no one listening to the Thiel 3.7 or 2.7s in my system would be putt off by "brightness." The... | |
| Townshend Audio Podiums - current owners opinion on the merits of this product rosami,I just read your review of using the Townshend pods under your Thiels.(I own Thiel 2.7s as you may know from the Thiel thread).It was very interesting and was a fuller description of what my own experience hinted at.I tried some de-coupling... |