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| Harbeth 40.2 40th Anniversary with Simaudio mono blocks I can’t even count how many disappointed owners of Spendor D7, D9 and Focals I have met......I auditioned the Spendor D7s with hopes they retained the Spendor magic sound in the mids. I was very disappointed. The Spendor Ds were actually among the... | |
| Speaker recommendations 10 to 30k and no beryllium If you go to Audio Excellence in Toronto to audition expensive gear make sure you dress the part. I’ve had some “interesting” experiences trying to audition stuff here ;-) | |
| Synergistic Research Cable Risers? Just so you know, unlike the people who knock things they don’t understand without even trying, I actually tried a bunch of different things and went for what worked best based on how it actually sounds. So rest assured this stuff works. Whew! I’m... | |
| Synergistic Research Cable Risers? Frank,I've souped up my Volkswagen Golf to get 500 miles to the gallon. It's amaaaazing!Now, do you think you have to have personal experience driving my car, before having any reason to be skeptical? Would I score points against your skepticis... | |
| All the brands I don't like... Erik is being a little cheeky and deceptive here. He’s holding back.I can help out. As a start, Brands That Erik Doesn’t Like:- Anything John Atkinson Likes.;-) | |
| Synergistic Research Cable Risers? What will the genius of Ted Denney come up with next!A continuing source of amazement (including the market for it), isn't it? | |
| Speaker recommendations 10 to 30k and no beryllium @smodtacticalI’d advise probably Executive Stereo first. I bought mine from Ed and he’s a great guy, and I know he has the Perspectives for audition since I just heard them there myself this week.TIP: Ask to have the Perspective pulled well out fr... | |
| Speaker recommendations 10 to 30k and no beryllium OP:If you are in Ontario you can audition the Joseph Perspectives at Executive Stereo. And also at Fairview Hi Fi. | |
| New Joseph Audio Pulsar Graphene 2 Yeah, I remember that even in my city Thiels used to be paired with Classe amps. I always liked the Thiel sound but found it just a touch dry and a bit hard.And people always said "Thiels are tough to drive, you need tons of current!"It was when... | |
| New Joseph Audio Pulsar Graphene 2 BTW, just spent a while listening to various excellent speakers at a pal's house (he has PMC, Epsilon, Aurelia, and others). Each has fine qualities, but none have the open, extended, utterly grain-free and harmonically rich top end and mids of t... | |
| New Joseph Audio Pulsar Graphene 2 djones51I actually meant to add: I've also heard the Perspectives a couple of times at the same dealer using the McIntosh Integrated tube amp (100W I believe...so same as yours?).Sounded great with that amp too. Though a bit more plumby in the b... | |
| New Joseph Audio Pulsar Graphene 2 @djones51I use Conrad Johnson Premier 12 monoblock tube amps, 140W of push-pull tubes per side. And a CJ Premier 16LS2 preamp.The dealer was using Sim Audio amps...integrated I believe.The Joseph speakers are not very sensitive, but are supposed... | |
| Harbeth 40.2 40th Anniversary with Simaudio mono blocks I simply can't live with a "dark" sounding speaker and in fact one of the things that impressed me in auditioning the O/96 was how open and airy it sounded, in two different AV stores! Go figure! There must be something about their design (tweet... | |
| Harbeth 40.2 40th Anniversary with Simaudio mono blocks Thanks for the detail arturgorniak!Very interesting.I'm used to owning speakers that really disappear and image/soundstage well, so that was one of my concerns with the Devores. I never could get depth with the smaller O/93s but for whatever reas... | |
| New Joseph Audio Pulsar Graphene 2 cd318I've had to unlearn some intuitions along the way, or at least modify them.I agree there does seem to often be a certain character of cleanliness and clarity with metal driver speakers. And this can come with something of an acidic or metall... |