pwhinson
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| Listening Levels for Classical Music / Slightly electronic sound at high levels Thanks inna, that has actually occurred to me but of course just about every recording these days is made digitally. Because of my extraordinary lazy nature I have grown use to listening to nothing but digital files mostly high resolution streamed... | |
| Personas....7F vs 9H I have found myself wondering actually what the 7f sounds like particularly since I invested in rather powerful Pass amplification not long ago. The 7f does go down to 25 hz and I know from experience that all you have to do to do room correction ... | |
| April 2017 review of the Paradigm Persona 9H A home run for Paradigm! I read this review and while its a great review there’s a huge amount of space devoted to oblique statements referencing a need for speaker manufacturers to include tweeter level controls al la Revel to tilt the top end up or down 3 db. And actual... | |
| Amps for Paradigm Persona 3f @dmance I admire your courage in running the 3f and 5f on that very fine tube amp. I would be terrified that I would tempted to push the volume too high at some point and fry those beryllium drivers. The 9H is another kettle of fish and I would pr... | |
| Monitor Audio Pl 300ii vs. KEF Reference 5 I briefly tried listening to the PL200ii and Pl300ii and couldn't get past how dark and uninvolving they sounded. I heard them at a dealer who I generally respect with regard to proper setup and system matching to get the best out of each product... | |
| Listening Levels for Classical Music / Slightly electronic sound at high levels Good point lowrider, the source of my digital files in a NAS located one floor down from my listening room, said files being delivered via ethernet into the Bridge II on the back of the PS Audio DAC. I do have small vibration control cushions I d... | |
| Thiel Owners We have a dealer here in Atlanta who sold both Thiels and Vandersteen but did better with Vandersteen sales wise than with Thiel. I ordered my 2.4's in beautiful ebony from said dealer and they were and are fantastic. | |
| Monitor Audio Pl 300ii vs. KEF Reference 5 One note on this discussion: Proof is not a verb unless you're baking bread. | |
| Whats the deal? Look at it this way. If something costs a fortune, sounds fantastic, but looks like a piece of junk that will fall apart at any minute would you buy it? I don’t think so. Re the cable issue I never thought I would join what I used to call the craz... | |
| Listening Levels for Classical Music / Slightly electronic sound at high levels Vandersteen, Magico, Thiel (as is in other Thiels such as the 3.7 which, with two large bass drivers should be perhaps better capable for properly reproducing orchestral peaks without compression.I know the amp is not running out of steam, far fro... | |
| A New? Way to Buy Loudspeakers?? I can only roll my eyes at this one. I have no doubt that you’ll hear differences but you’re introducing another whole set of "differences" independent of what these speakers would sound like in your room. You’re listening to speakers through spea... | |
| Paradigm Persona series With regard to the idea of an isolation platform I would also just point out that I'm not sure it would be desirable to raise the height of the speaker. At my seated position my ears about 3'6" from the floor whereas the Paradigm tweeter is alrea... | |
| Paradigm Persona series Those of you who have paired SET electronics with the 9H, is tube rush an issue for you? The reason I'm asking is that oddly there was NO audible tube rush when running my Aesthetix Janus or my Aesthetix Calypso (yes I have both) yet with the 9H,... | |
| Thiel Owners @jafant To be honest I'm not sure what cables they were using, it didn't look like anything most people would recognize. It was all digital with an Aurender streamer and I believe the DAC was Esoteric. | |
| Thiel Owners MAGICO A3. Just a quick note for those who have been following my speaker selection odyssey: I listened to the Magico A3 today and while its a fine speaker the overall tonal balance is decidely on the dark side of neutral. NO ONE is going to fe... |