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| What are the best loudspeakers under $4000 to re-create lifelike piano It has been almost 5 years since I started this thread. Over that time period, I've owned a bunch of different speakers and electronics. With 5 years of trial and error and stating the obvious, rooms and electronics matter as much if not more th... | |
| Pacific Audio Fest No doubt the Borrensons are impressive...I wonder what they sound like when they aren't being driven with a $60k front end that probably has been optimized to make them sound their best? | |
| Speaker pairings for Lyngdorf 2170 I’ve heard the 2170 with the Spatial Audio M3 Sapphires and the Magnepan LRS… both with and without the Audio Kinesis 4 sub array… and with and without room correction. I found it to always sound good, never bright or harsh, good imaging and s... | |
| Service my Belles I spoke to David a couple months ago...he will pick up the phone when he isn't busy. It might be worth calling him after you get the SA100 to see if you can get a handle on the age of the unit and any thoughts about whether it may be time for ser... | |
| AVA Vision Set 400 v Belles SA-100 If you decide to change preamps, I believe that some of the current AVA preamp offering have a high and low gain switch so they can work with a wider range of amplifiers and sensitive speakers. | |
| Tekton versus Klipsch Just one more thing to think about no matter which ones your buy/try. The bigger and heavier they are, the more they will cost you to send back (and shipping is very expensive right now) if you don't love them. AND if at some point you decide... | |
| Essay bashing Primedia, Stereophile - and Audiogon Let’s go back to the day when dealers wouldn’t let you try gear at home and you had to use the newspaper classified section to try to find a buyer. | |
| Adding a sub. - can i start with one? It is a simple test. Turn off your mains. Turn on your sub and set the crossover at 50hz and then play a number of songs...not much tone. Walk around the room...still not much tone. I've done it with four different brands of subs and it always... | |
| Adding a sub. - can i start with one? I also have a big space. I also have mains that do a pretty good job on their own but sometimes could use a little more oomph. One suggestion would be to add a 15" sub...sealed if its for music only. Then run your mains full range and bring i... | |
| Help me spend $6000 I really think your answer begins with some questions: What have you owned and liked? What have you owned and not liked? What have you always wanted to try? What is absolutely out of the realm of consideration? Recently, I've owned Salk and S... | |
| Anyone have (or had) a Belles VT-01 V1? Auto un-mute after warmup? I have a Belles 22a which succeeded the VT-01. When turned on, it is automatically muted as the tubes heat up… which takes 60 seconds. It stays muted until you hit unmute on the remote. It can’t be unmuted before the 60 seconds are up. | |
| Competitive class D amp suggestions Ralph, thank you for the explanation. One thing I’m still not clear about is why people describe class a and high bias a/b as being warm sounding especially if their overall distortion is on the higher side? | |
| Competitive class D amp suggestions Ralph, your distortion discussion is very helpful. What can you say, generally speaking about the distortion make up for class A and highly biased Class a/b solid state amplifiers? Are they generally the higher distortion 2nd harmonic type or the... | |
| Competitive class D amp suggestions @niodari the numbers might get you in the right theater but you will only find the perfect seat by trial and error because the amp has to mate with the source or preamp and speakers in a way that sounds great to you. So for the trial and error... | |
| Fed rate increase = lower hifi prices? The stock market may cause a few potential buyers to sit on the sidelines. Maybe a larger issue is shipping cost. People have a value in mind for a piece of gear and if shipping has doubled or tripled… especially hundreds of dollars, it could ... |