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Experience with Townshend Seismic Podiums on Concrete Floor (they're great)
@ryder    Great news. Your experience just adds to the statistics and reinforced my belief that the Townshend Podiums register a 100% success rate with those who have tried.   I think you must have missed my post.    
Thiel Owners
tomthiel,   Thanks so much for all the detail on the 02s and 2.7 upgrade ideas! I don't know that I'd touch my 02s, and if I were ever to try and upgrade them I'd probably find another pair to do so.  As for the 2.7s, I really have got them so... 
Thiel Owners
@tomthiel  Where you working to somehow make the Thiel 02 time/phase coherent, or are you keeping the basic original design? Also, sometimes I wonder what modded 2.7s would sound like.  Any idea what one would do to "upgrade" those?  I always th... 
Under my tower speakers -- Isoacoustics Gaia, other options?
I’ve never heard of stands "settling in."   Audiophiles can imagine anything ;-) Our perception is very plastic, but many audiophiles tend to attribute changes in their perception (for instance getting used to the sound of a new speaker or wh... 
What is the current retail cost of your reference system?
If I even think it too loud, my wife will hear it.  
Experience with Townshend Seismic Podiums on Concrete Floor (they're great)
It is one of the few audio products that is universally praised by people who actually own them.   I agree the overwhelming proportion of reports on the Townshend isolation base/bars are positive.  That's one of the reasons I tried them (Isola... 
Thiel Owners
@masi61    I'm pretty sure I detailed my impressions of the Isoacoustics Gaia under my Thiel 2.7s somewhere not long ago in this thread.  But just in case I'll copy/paste my comments from another thread: -------------------   So..finally...I ... 
Graham LS5/5: considered impressions after three months of ownership...
  Excellent review and description!!!  Thanks a lot!  I'd love to hear those speakers.  
Joseph Audio: Perspectives and Pearls
It makes sense from an economic standpoint.  There have been speaker manufacturers who don't believe biwiring makes a difference, but they are selling to an audiophile community in which many think it does, and demand speakers that can be bi-wired... 
Joseph Audio: Perspectives and Pearls
@rsf507  I broke in the Perspectives in a different room for a few days, hooked up to a little radio receiver, wired out of phase playing dance music.   So I've only had them up and running in my system since Monday.  I plan to write about them i... 
Joseph Audio: Perspectives and Pearls
  I haven't put the Perspectives back in to my system again, but my impression upon unboxing was once again: man what beautiful speakers.  They just look so high end and high class.   I think the graphene drivers are a little darker too.  (Which ... 
Joseph Audio: Perspectives and Pearls
  I was at my dealer yesterday picking up my upgraded Perspectives (breaking in now). They were setting up the Pearls.  OMG are those gorgeous looking speakers! The construction and finish are just impeccable and luxurious.  And they are such a ... 
Coaxials - Reality vs. Experience?
I've owned coax speakers (Thiel) and listened to a number of others - e.g KEF, Tannoy, more recently the SourcePoint 10s. I have not found any particular advantage just due to a speaker using a coax design.  I don't for instance find the KEF, Tan... 
New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones)
t amazes me that people endorse or criticize them if they did not hear them.   Even more mind boggling: over on sites like Jay’s Audio Lab, where he has posted a number of "demo videos" of the SourcePoint 10s, the comment section is filled wit... 
New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones)
  The SourcePoint 10 review (and measurements) is up on the Stereophile site now.