seandtaylor99
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| What Headphones? Looking to upgrade.......... I agree with Scott that you need to check the quality of the headphone driver on your PC before buying expensive headphones. I have (lowly) Sennheiser HD535s and they sound COMPLETELY different on my PC, my portable CD and direct from the headphon... | |
| REL Strata III and Strata II differences? I'm not completely sure, but I think that the Strata II was a ported cabinet. The strata 3 is a sealed cabinet. I have heard reports that the strata 2 had some port noise (chuffing I think is the term) if excessive low frequencies were pushed thro... | |
| need amp advice Hi Gunbunny, since you mention monitors on stands ... that would work very well if supplemented by a sub. For example a pair of LS3/5 on stands, plus a REL sub ... not much different in price to the Soliloquy I think and much higher WAF. I have Sp... | |
| Is my dealer lying to me? Hi Natalie ... please explain why one part of the signal chain is more important than another. After all the signal must pass through all components(source-cable-amp-cable-speakers-room) in order to reach the listener and is degraded at each stage... | |
| need amp advice Sorry ... it was an honest answer. I don't think the Yamaha will bring out the best in those speakers.But I may be wrong (it's not uncommon !)Is there any chance you could demo the various options ... if so then I'd do that. Take home a pre, a pow... | |
| need amp advice Another possibility might be to buy a good integrated 2 channel amp for the music and use a speaker switch to switch the two main speakers to run either off the Yamaha or off the integrated.$1000 will buy a nice integrated .... Creek, Cyrus, Audio... | |
| Is my dealer lying to me? Whoa ... everyone calm down ! Sdcampbell is correct ... and Natalie may also be correct. In a system costing $5kUSD or less I think it would be hard to justify a $2k CD player as the remainder of the system probably could not resolve the differenc... | |
| Amp w/s Outstanding Midrange For solid state you could try Densen. They're hard to find in the US, but their web site (www.densen.dk) should point you to a US stockist. They have the b-100 at about $1200USD, and the DM-10 at around $2500 USD. I own the B-100 and it is very de... | |
| need new cd player-budget is tight this winter Hi Joolz, a fellow brit eh ? I'm now living in California with my US wife, who's from Boston. We're planning to move either to New England or back to Old England next year.Here's a suggestion which has worked well for me : make yourself a pair of ... | |
| Is my dealer lying to me? I think I agree with Sdcampbell ... I have not been able to hear much difference between my Marantz CD67SE and an expensive Meridian player I borrowed, and certainly not a $2k difference. In my experience the interconnect makes more difference tha... | |
| need new cd player-budget is tight this winter Hi Joolz, have you auditioned any "better" CD players in your home rig ? The reason I ask is that you already have a pretty reasonable CD player, and I think that you might be expecting too much from a CD player upgrade. Personally I have never fo... | |
| Cheap Stuff That Keeps Up? Sugarbrie, are you suggesting that Jeff might have room in his bathroom for the Spicas ?A pair of Spica Angelus in the bathroom system ... man that would be the ultimate guy-audio bathroom. Perhaps you could mount the TP roll holder on the front o... | |
| Best driving music. I propose that all car audio systems be permanently set to play soothing classical music (Beethoven might be particularly good). I'm convinced that this might quell the rising tide of road rage, since I'm sure that this is partly to do with all of... | |
| Cheap Stuff That Keeps Up? 1. Any Spica speaker (used) : will image as well as anything up to $1500, and can be had for around $500.2. Audiolab 8000A and 8000S seem to be ridiculously cheap on the used market in the US, and are rather good. | |
| Which small but great monitors? Another option might be Epos M12 (or ES-11 or 14). These are about in the price range and image very well, and there are quite a few dealers around. |