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Best music in 2024
Here's a brand new release (7/26), and a great one! Perpetual Mutations  Gavin Harrison - drums (King Crimson, Porcupine Tree, Pineapple Thief, others) Antoine Farfad - bass (one of the best bass players on the planet)   Killer prog-fusion. C... 
Borresen X3 vs Harbeth 40.2 -- my impressions
I am far from a "measurement only" guy, but a lot about the Harbeth's can be discerned by these 2 measurements. And in my opinion, not in a good way.   This spectral decay is simply bad, and will be audible as colorations.     
Borresen X3 vs Harbeth 40.2 -- my impressions
@drbay   After a short while it sounds very digital and mechanic. No musicality. It feels like you are listening each individual note instead of a song.  You said the Borresen speakers sound "digital" on another thread, which I asked for an ex... 
Best speaker brands for transient response
@drbay  Be careful with Borresen, they are impressive first and very fast, but they sound very digital and mechanical, they do not give a natural sound.    Not sure how a speaker can sound "digital and mechanical"? Please enlighten me. My co... 
Best speaker brands for transient response
The best transient response I've ever heard, are ion plasma tweeters.  It's hard to beat drivers with zero mass. Lansche and AvantGarde Acoustics both have very impressive transient response behavior.  Next in line would probably be ribbons and... 
New In 2024
To be released on 7/26/2024. Perpetual Mutations by, Gavin Harrison (King Crimson, Porcupine Tree) and Antoine Fafard (one of the best jazz-fusion bass players on the planet). With: Jean-Pierre Zanella: Soprano Saxophone Dale Devoe: Trombones a... 
1 song you never get sick of?
Yeah, I know the OP said 1 song, but there are way too many for me. This list is only a small amount of music that I don’t get sick of. Prog: Yes - Close to the Edge, Gates of Delirium, And You and I King Crimson - Starless, Exiles, Book of Sa... 
Anybody compare the latest Audience 1+1 V5 speakers with Alta Audio Alyssas?
I am going to have to agree with @soix on the Audience 1+1 (not sure which version), but I found them to be much as described. Veiled, dynamically limited, highs lacking. The Alta Audio Alyssas are substantially better, but they still have their ... 
Does it have to sound good for you to like it?
I don’t give a crap about Parson’s resume, he doesn’t get to lump all audiophiles into one overgeneralized group like that. That’s just a stupid and ill-informed statement IMHO.   Some audiophiles probably do that but I believe most don’t. Ar... 
Does it have to sound good for you to like it?
@macg19 Great quote. That is exactly what I do, sometimes.   I actually think it is not a great quote. First of all, it seems to lump all audiophiles as one monolithic block of listeners, who care much more about their gear, than the music.... 
Does it have to sound good for you to like it?
I am a "music first audiophile". I would be hard pressed to not listen to a recording where I thought the music was great, but the recording, not so much. Lucky for me, the 3 genres (classical, prog, jazz) and their various subgenres I listen to,... 
Help with high end bookshelf speakers
@deep_333  Nice comedy routine you have there! Yes, 11 x 12 is not optimum, but it is certainly possible to get great hi-fi, high end audio quality in such a room.  I have a room slightly larger than that, with well placed (mostly DIY) room tre... 
Non-fatiguing speakers in $10K range?
I have to agree with many so far.  The Borresen x3 are pretty killer in that price range.   
Are your speakers losing air?
You’d be shocked at how many well known and well respected, center channel speakers have horrible off axis speaker performance, and measurements. A good friend and I, spent several weekends measuring every center channel speaker we could beg, bor... 
Dirty little secret of Pedigreed, decades old Speaker line - no one will address
@john1  As I see it, one of the biggest problems with your initial premise: because YG is still using aluminum drivers, therefore they are not innovating, is missing many other pieces of the entire story. How do you know, that just because they ...