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| Thiel Owners I've recently felt some despair concerning the amount of snake oil in our hobby and the industry, (when audiophiles wonder why we are a source of bemusement and mockery, we need look no further than the farcical high end cable racket). I found re... | |
| MBL 126 or 120 smetzger72I agree. Having heard the 101s numerous times, you really do get a big helping of that MBL sound from the monitors. I know some who own both the big models and the 121s agree.Funny enough, I never felt the same about the floorstanding ... | |
| What are some of the most underrated and overrated loudspeakers you’ve auditioned? Someone mentioned Totem. Yes! When I hear them and then see all the praise, "over-rated" certainly describes my mindset.(Again...pure subjectivity...0 | |
| What are some of the most underrated and overrated loudspeakers you’ve auditioned? Joseph Audio (expensive speaker with off the shelf drivers, no low diffraction cab or waveguide even, can easily be replicated for a cheaper price).Ah, naive "argument-from-cost-of-materials." And "you can DIY this stuff."Never gets old ;-)The Jos... | |
| What are some of the most underrated and overrated loudspeakers you’ve auditioned? Just to play this game....When I don’t like the sound of a speaker, especially a popular one, I normally don’t think "boy are these overrated." I just note that they are not for me, and can usually see what someone else might find in them.If I loo... | |
| What are some of the most underrated and overrated loudspeakers you’ve auditioned? This should go well.... | |
| Has anyone finally decided to sell their Turntable and Vinyl collection? To me, LPs and CDs are like ANALOG PHONES and FILM CAMERAS...JUST OUTDATED..So is sitting stuck in front of a hi-fi system listening to music. You could just use earbuds attached to your phone and get music anywhere you want. Few things look to t... | |
| How thick should the front baffle of speakers be? jsautter,I disagree. The Harbeth SuperHL5plus that I owned sounded excellent with all genres. A very balanced, neutral and revealing speaker (which employed it's lossy approach to actually achieve this balance). | |
| The best looking speakers mrdecibelI don't quite agree. Though my wife has her opinions on the looks of speakers, I actually can buy pretty much whatever I want within my budget, and the looks of the speaker are up to me. Aesthetics are very important to me. I'll be l... | |
| The best looking speakers LOL...Jadis Eurythmie: my wife would kick me out of the house if those showed up. "The best looking speakers for you and your wife ! , is the. “Ilumnia Magister”"Which, again, I can predict some women I know including my wife would think look odd ... | |
| Has anyone finally decided to sell their Turntable and Vinyl collection? I went digital early on and was never in the camp that digital didn’t sound good or better than vinyl. Since the 90’s I thought my digital source sounded superb (various sources) and has given me tons of pleasure.Once I ripped all my CDs (torture!... | |
| The best looking speakers @captainsteveAwesome! Please let us know how you like them. I presume you are buying new, and hence getting the new "Graphene 2" version of the Perspectives?Those are what I"ve been aiming for myself. | |
| The best looking speakers Taste being subjective all I could contribute is what are the best looking speakers to me.I actually think the Thiel 2.7 speakers, which I now happily own, are about as close to "perfect" for speaker aesthetics as I can think of.They depart from t... | |
| Paradigm Persona series Yes I know audiotroy. As I said, I disagree. I’ve heard the Persona’s in 4 different set ups now, all different gear, and a speaker’s "personality" does not radically change (unless you put some incredibly colored tube amp on it or something).They... | |
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