questforhifi
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| How to tame a bright system? brightness is a signature to many B&W speakers. Across all the forums with similar threads the common denominator is that they are using bowers and wilkens. I dont own a pair myself but a B&W system came with my bmw m5 and some songs are ... | |
| Speakers for a Large Room (20’x37’) I like the blades as well. 91db efficiency but for a large space I like that it sounds good over the entire listening area. Many of the speakers mentioned have a small sweet spot, but the blades sound good over a much larger area I own klipsch sp... | |
| PC for Gryphon Diablo 300 I’ve successfully aquired the dragon HC 2m for roughly 1/3rd price of new. watching jays channel he seems to think they are by far the best and hes tested a great many over the years It will be like a double upgrade for me. Right now my dac is us... | |
| Have you ever been turned off by an Arrogant Dealer? Thoughts This isnt just audio dealers this applies to specialty stores of high priced items in general If you enter and it looks like you just want to pay as little as possible the owner might come off as Arrogant. In the early spring I went to buy a pum... | |
| Have you ever been turned off by an Arrogant Dealer? Thoughts dealers definetly make strong judgments fairly rapidly. The last dealer i went to I happened to drive my bmw m5 that day. I purposely parked it as far away as possible; i didnt see any cars in the front lot and didnt want attention so i parked in ... | |
| PC for Gryphon Diablo 300 @arch2 it’s superb. The process to get the amp was quite tedious i had many on trial. I tried many amps including: the parasound JC1+ monos, ayre, pass 250, hegel h590, and i even tested the m/c900 pair (excellent btw) but the diablo was the cream... | |
| Does ethernet switch quality matter when using fiber connection? wall > standard ethernet cable to switch > lumin x1 via fiber. basic setup | |
| PC for Gryphon Diablo 300 The gryphon dealer mentioned for me to explore silver cables as gryphon amps tend to love them. I switched to silver speaker cables from stealth audio. Fantastic improvement over my old aq copper cables. looking to stay with that trend. I use shu... | |
| PC for Gryphon Diablo 300 Yes i noticed the type and tried editing a few days back it but its too late to edit. Looking for c13 plug | |
| What's your dream speaker? when I started I bought a $4k set of speakers and thought I was a boss. At that time I didnt realize how expensive audio systems truely were. I thought those speakers with generic cables and a $2k avr would send me to musical nervana and that I wo... | |
| Coiling XLRs.... yes or no? both ways sound great I have routed it well. If there is a difference, i would need to record both ways and listen to the recordings back to back to be able to tell for sure. I like to think there is a difference at least; and its nice piece of m... | |
| Coiling XLRs.... yes or no? for what it’s worth gene from audioholics measured this and while there was an increase in inductance, it wasnt enough to make an audible difference. | |
| Coiling XLRs.... yes or no? I'll try and route the wires around and see if it improves sound. | |
| PC for Gryphon Diablo 300 I am also using a powercell 12 uef se with HC Galileo power cord. so this may power into that opposed to direct into wall | |
| Class A amplifier alternative? Look for a Class A/AB amp. There are quite a few which are very powerful. They run the first 10 or 20 watts in Class A then switch over to Class AB. Off the top of my head are Pass Labs, Plinius, and I think Parasound. Ok stuff like your descri... |