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| Best Speakers for a small Nearfield room, budget at most $10000 (used is also ok) Here's a used pair of Dutch & Dutch 8c.https://www.gearslutz.com/board/gearslutz-secondhand-gear-classifieds/1301736-dutch-amp-dutch-8c.html | |
| Need preamp recommendation The Don Sachs preamp is just a dressed up VTA SP14. Much prettier and about $1000 more. The Don Sachs model will run you about $2500 and the VTA SP14 comes in at about $1500. You can save $500 by building as a kit. You won't find a better pr... | |
| $5k Pair Full Range Speaker Shootout - Help me pick I made this same recommendation to another guy here.Get the SEAS Thor kit from Madisound. They work with a custom cabinet maker who can build them and have them delivered to your door. I can't tell you the exact price, but I'll take a SWAG and s... | |
| purchasing US made speakers Get the SEAS Thor kit from Madisound. They work with a custom cabinet maker who can build them and have them delivered to your door. I can't tell you the exact price, but I'll take a SWAG and suggest that the total cost of the project would prob... | |
| Cheap/expensive or expensive/cheap? 14 gauge zip cord is all you need. Save your money. Really. | |
| Jazz vocalists which may not be as real as we think/imagine Diana Krall is OK I suppose. Many audiophiles are very taken with her due to sex appeal. She takes a good cover photo. Sultry.There are so very many other truly excellent jazz singers to choose from. Why spend your money on her? If you want ... | |
| Is Wife Acceptance Factor (WAF) sexist? Chances are, only one of you in the household is an audiophile and cares one whit about how your music sounds. Chances are the other person does care about how your home looks. And heck. Maybe you do too?I live in a 100 year old Craftsman bungalow... | |
| Are cables really worth their high price because of their geometry? @williewonka Siegfried Linkwitz, who knew a thing or two about audio engineering, used 14 gauge zip cord. Given that my Linkwitz Orions use four channels of amplification on each side, with 25 foot cable runs to each side, 200 feet of anything o... | |
| Are cables really worth their high price because of their geometry? There's a whole Facebook group, called "Audio BS", devoted to hating exotic speaker cables. There's good reason. About 10 years ago a buddy of mine was landlord to a hi-end audio distributor. One night, he went into their space, disconnected... | |
| Speaker upgrade around 100k retail Two suggestions:Pitch out what you've got and just buy the fully assembled LX521 package from MagicLX. That gets you the loudspeakers, active crossover and amplification. Total package cost is probably around $25k. You'd have a fully designe... | |
| Favorite song to demo or test drive speakers? Feel free to download.Scott Hamiltion "That's All" | |
| How to accurately gauge speaker sensitivity to match with tube amp? This whole discussion around impedance only highlights what a can of worms you get with passive crossovers. Here's WHY active crossovers are so very much better than passive. A single loudspeaker driver is an inductor, and provides a frequency de... | |
| Why Don't More People Into Music Reproduction At Home Play Around With Musical Instruments I’m both an engineer and a performing musician, which is why it was natural that I live my life as an audiophile. I’ve been doing location recording for more than 40 years. My wife is a professional violinist here in the San Francisco area. The li... | |
| Best CD player under $2000 The best CD player under $2000 is a $300 pro grade CD player, like a Tascam, with an optical feed to your favorite DAC. | |
| speaker recommendation for 35watt tube mono blocks One of the very most musical systems I ever heard had a Mac C22 preamp, Marantz 8B power amp, and a pair of KEF Calinda loudspeakers. Absolute f'ing magic. The 8B power amp is 35 wpc and was a good match for these loudspeakers.They're a little h... |