shadorne
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| Best system used for $10,000 for classical music You need a good midrange for classical.The Vienna Acoustics Beethoven Baby Grand's are indeed great value. You only need to be aware that John Atkinson was disappointed with their bigger brother - nasal, limited dynamic range. So if you go that wa... | |
| need help -- budget system for a friend.... Start with speakers and work back. For new it is hard to beat NHT S-00 and M-00 new for around $750. If your friend has a wireless PC for a source then you may need only an Apple Express or a USB DAC and you are done. Anyone starting out today and... | |
| Speakers: $3,000-$4,000 on Audiogon If I had a preference, I would lean towards a warmer/less analytical sound but not to the point of sacrificing detail. A British polite speaker perhaps? There are many but Harbeth's come quickest to mind - they might be "Goldilocks" to your taste... | |
| 15 watts & 94 db eff. speakers: how loud? rockadanny - I read (in TAS I think) that 3db is not detectable to the human ear and that 10db sounds like double the volume even though 3db is actually double when instruments are used. Good critical ears can detect about 0.2 db SPL differences ... | |
| cables are they worth it? A good quality van den hul cable, as Jaybo suggested, should last much longer than a walmart cable. In a humid environment (Netherlands?), cheap cables will corrode more quickly (discoloration of the copper under the jacket) and with many cheap ca... | |
| Source or speaker But I believe the source is the reason spectacular systems sound the way that they do. If by source you include the quality of the actual recording then there is no doubt that a good recording is a also a huge factor. Variability in recording qua... | |
| cables are they worth it? Both cost around $800 each for 1 meter Others will disagree, but $800 is much better spent elsewhere, IMHO. There is absolutely nothing wrong with ordinary Walmart cable in most cases. How much is better construction, better shield, better lookin... | |
| B&W Nautilus 804s and clipping Everyone has their trick - firstly you need to be intimately familiar with the sound of a particular recording - I like well recorded piano and percussion as the best indicator of tweeter quality (as most tweeters compress all too easily and this ... | |
| Source or speaker Shardorne did I step on your toes? Not at all - just poking fun ;-)I simply tried to follow your own logic at the start of the thread. Either you built your system around your source ("get the source right and everything follows") or as you state... | |
| dynamic range -the good and bad? If I turn my volume up so that the orchestra sounds right the soloist is louder than a real instrument can play. That is my experience too. It is one of the reasons recorded music sounds like recorded music and not live music. I like Telarc becau... | |
| Stranded vs singal core conductors and skin effect Sometimes I wonder if even keeping the DC resistance low by using large wire is important. I agree it is relative. If you have a low impedance load then it starts to become a small factor. With well designed speakers and short runs and an appropr... | |
| Source or speaker How I got my sytem to sound right (to me of course) was mostly out of luck. Great point. You can take the totally random luck approach or you can take Bill's advice. I fourth Audiofeil! | |
| dynamic range -the good and bad? Dynamic range is GOOD.The death of dynamic range on modern recordings has made audiophiles an endangered species... | |
| 15 watts & 94 db eff. speakers: how loud? I'm wondering, is this the nature of hard clipping in digital amps, to begin before there is any real noticeable distortion or is something wrong with the amp? Yes this is normal. SS amps generally clip all of a sudden and they can sound very bad... | |
| "Budget" cable advice, please I can't break the bank on cables, but want to get a marked improvement in the system. Monster cables are generally a high priced and higher build quality cable brand already. If you are looking for value then I'd stick with them - especially as y... |