seandtaylor99
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| Paradigm 100 v.3 – B&W 804 dilemma… please help My goodness, there's a new "Mr Angry" on audiogon ! Could we have an expletive filter please, moderators ? | |
| Looking for a Speaker in the $15,000 Range This is way above my league (my whole system cost $5000), but it strikes me that if you're completely happy with the Quads except for the bass and sense of scale of the sound then you should try to get a home demo of a good quality subwoofer, like... | |
| Passive intergrated Amps Gunbei, I own the densen, and it sounds really great to me (good mix of musicality with transparency) but I can't compare since I rarely listen to other amps (can't stand shopping). I don't like the looks personally ... too showy. The knobs on the... | |
| Passive intergrated Amps Densen B-100 I think fits your description. In any case it's a nice sounding amp.Why worry whether the integrated is passive or not ? Just buy the one that sounds the best. | |
| Good speaker wire limited budget Spica Angelus As an owner of Spica angelus I mostly agree with elevick. My only quibble with his advice is :1) The highs on the angelus are no so rolled off as some would have you think. I compared the angelus to the spendor s3/5 and they won easily in highs, a... | |
| The Best Inexpensive Wines Available Now I am clearly much less experienced than you guys, but I think the following two are screaming bargains:Charles Shaw Merlot ... $1.99 from Trader Joes (the other Charles Shaw varieties were not very good). Yes $1.99 and very pleasant. They were als... | |
| Which low cost turntable should I choose ? For 200 pounds I think you'd get :- used planar 2/3 (125 gbp)- Audio technica AT-95 cartridge (25gbp)- project phono stage. (50gbp)This fits your budget and provides for easy upgrades if you like it ... origin mods on the rega, a cartridge upgrade... | |
| best monitor speaker under $1k, new or used I think you need to specify their placement. On a bookshelf, ls3/5 (or derivatives thereof) are quite good, but away from the wall (where imaging can be appreciated, and when a reflex port can be tolerated) I'd lean to spica tc-50/60s, epos es-11 ... | |
| Suggestions for Spendor 3/5 The spendors are not very efficient and the Nait is not very powerful, so I can only imagine that the combination will work in a small room, though it would probably work well.I have a friend in the UK who has a 15 yr old Quad pre/power combinatio... | |
| Time coherence - how important and what speakers? Thanks Roy ... I was not trying to suggest that Spicas are true time-coherent, because I did not know whether they were or were not. I had an idea that they were designed to approach time coherency, and if that is what makes them image the way the... | |
| Neil Young On The Beach Thanks Ben for the heads-up. I only have Harvest and MTV unplugged. don't particularly like unplugged, but I really like harvest. I will have to check out this album.How strange a US (well canadian) artist released first in the UK ?! | |
| Time coherence - how important and what speakers? Dolphin ... add John Bau (Spica) to that list. | |
| Which speaker is the master of IMAGING ???? Don't know about the best, but I bet Spica Angelus are the best imaging you can get (used) for $500 or less. With the caveat that I don't spend much time in hifi shops I have not heard any speaker image better than the spicas for anywhere near the... | |
| driver moving too much Twl gives good advice. I solved a problem with floor-borne vibrations when I had my rega 3 on a sideboard by getting a slab of 3 inch thick firm foam, placing a 2 inch thick concrete slab onto the foam (compressed the foam to about 1.5 inches) and... | |
| "Beginner" audiophile Turntable for $200-$300? The Moth alamo is similar to a NAD 533. They come up on this site from time to time. Made by Rega. |