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| Any monitors clearly better than Pulsars? murphythecat,We all have our preferences.I'm familiar with the Harbeth 30.2 (auditioned it, heard it many times) and owned the Harbeth SuperHL5plus.I love Harbeth, but wouldn't put the 30.2 above the Pulsar at all, certainly NOT for bass punch and... | |
| Any monitors clearly better than Pulsars? murphythecatSo your complaint is that a stand mounted monitor doesn’t sound like a big speaker with 12 t o18 inch drivers and a big cabinet.I’m not sure exactly how helpful or enlightening this input is in a thread about monitor speakers, asking f... | |
| Any monitors clearly better than Pulsars? no matter how refine the pulsar are, they sound small with no real bass.That may certainly be your opinion, but I'd say it would be quite misleading to people curious about the Pulsars.They are renowned for their bass output for a stand mounted sp... | |
| Contemplating DEVORE SPEAKERS (and others)....LONG audition report of many speakers One person's "natural" can be another person's "not natural." But the Yamahas did sound really great at shows and I would really enjoy listening to them further to check them out. It's just not worth to me because they are beyond my budget. | |
| Contemplating DEVORE SPEAKERS (and others)....LONG audition report of many speakers The Yamaha NS5000 have been used in some fairly spectacular sounding demos at shows I've attended. I just briefly heard them at a shop again, recently (they were on, I didn't "audition them.")My immediate sense was a very impressive sense of clar... | |
| Speaker Analysis for Armchair Critics "Nobody knows what they're doing."^^^ "psychological projection" at it's purest.It's like Trump has invaded audiogon. | |
| Speaker Analysis for Armchair Critics Boy I disliked the old B&W speakers with those ugly yellow kevlar cones. I’m thinking of speakers like the CDM1, a perfect example of a speaker that sounds exactly like it looks - tweeter frequencies sounding detached and too bright. Yuck. | |
| HAVE ALL SALES STOPPED ON AUDIOGON ??? When I buy used, I generally choose gear that I know is coveted by some portion of audiophiles, and I jump fast on a really great price when I find one. That way I can be reasonably confident of re-selling if necessary. And I always go in simply e... | |
| Thiel Owners Heh, I’ve had quite a bit of experience having had access to very high end cables. I used to have boutique cabling - I even have some Nordost right now, just sold some Wireworld eclipse speaker cables I owned, today along with a pair of speakers... | |
| Thiel Owners Yes I’ve been spoiled by the Thiels. Both by my current 2.7s and by my experience with the 3.7s. The 3.7 in particular seems to me an end-game speaker that will compete with the best for many years to come.While I love checking out high end system... | |
| Something For The Fuse Guys ... Frank,Notice that in the post you alluded to I didn’t say the doubters CAN’T hear. What I did say was that perhaps they don’t know what to listen FOR. That’s a big difference, and not intended to be a slight in any way. Sure, you have a point. ... | |
| Thiel Owners Andy, yes my "Contemplating Devore speakers" thread. I just added another speaker audition to it: Spendor D7s.The Spendors just didn't sound as natural as my 2.7s. The 2.7s seemed to beat them in just about every parameter. | |
| New Joseph Audio Pulsar Graphene 2 I did consider a sub, in fact bought two JL subs with the JL audio crossover (was going to use them with my Thiels too). The whole sub thing was such a hassle I put it on hold.I've hung on to the subs and crossover in case I feel the need to even ... | |
| Something For The Fuse Guys ... Frank,The exact same argument you just gave is made for psychics, faith healers, new age therapies, spiritualists and alternative medicine and pretty much every dubious claim you can find. People’s subjectivity can “confirm” the efficacy of just... | |
| New Joseph Audio Pulsar Graphene 2 mapman,Believe me, I couldn't let go of the MBLs for the last ten years! I truly thought I would never sell them as they were a "unicorn speaker"I happened upon for a once-in-a-lifetime price. But given I switch around my speakers I couldn't hel... |