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| B&W 702 Signature vs The original B&W 702 S2 That review of the 702s is an absolute useless and misleading pile of garbage, as are most reviews that don’t bother to make direct comparisons to another competitive model. The highly resolving carbon dome tweeter of the Bowers & Wilkins 702 ... | |
| Recommendation for a replacement speaker cable $600? Better than AZ Satori??? Uh, good luck with that one. Try Audio Envy I guess. What specifically are you looking to improve upon over what the AZs do? “Upgrade” and “Magic” don’t mean anything, at least not to me. | |
| Original Nola Boxer Replacement, Maybe? You could try the new LSA-10 Signature available here for $1399 on a 30-day trial and send them back if they don’t meaningfully surpass your Boxers. The new LSA models are getting very good reviews. | |
| Looking for some new floor standing speakers LSA-20 Statement on sale here now for $3300/pr with 30-day trial period. If you’re open to used there’s a nice pair of ATC SCM40 v2 at US Audio Mart for $5000. Best of luck. | |
| Tuning my system towards a darker tone There’s a 1m pair of Acoustic Zen Matrix Reference ICs (original version) on eBay for $229. Very warm sounding but still nicely detailed so may help push you in the right direction for not much $. Cardas Golden Cross would be another IC to look ... | |
| Odd behavior- JRiver 27 and MacBook Pro not working right- no output to DAC Try Haworthtechnology.com — sounds like they may handle this kinda stuff. | |
| Recommendation for speaker upgrade for main home listening and audio environment Don't want to spend more than 1k for a pair, and definitely want a decent upgrade in sound.Save up more $$$ to do a meaningful speaker upgrade or just add a pair of SVS SB1000 subs for $1000 — that’d be a pretty big sonic upgrade and give you a ne... | |
| Passive soundbar Yup. My bad. | |
| Eleven digital cable audition. Did you follow directionality with the Apogee? The writing on the jacket is pretty faint on mine so just making sure. Also, what length did you use? At least 1m I hope. Thanks for the comparo — interesting and love to see even more. | |
| Passive soundbar For only $299 the Yamaha YAS-209 may get the job done, and it comes with a wireless sub. CNET Editor’s Choice and several Amazon customers were impressed with its sound versus competitors. FWIW, and best of luck. | |
| Looking For Best Headphones What sound characteristics are most important to you? What’s your budget? | |
| Speaker upgrade Just thought I’d mention there’s a nice used pair of Nola Baby Grands at SkyFi Audio for $25k. Tough to beat at that price. | |
| Purifi Class D: Junk? More like calling you out, on your snake oil mods, that you don’t backup with any measurements, just a fusers "trust me it works"So if there aren’t measurements it can’t work, eh? Guess you can’t just trust your own ears without some kinda measur... | |
| Need help Just like with a 2-channel audio system, it’s best if you choose your headphones first to see what kind of amp and how much power you’ll need to drive them properly. Just my $0.02. | |
| Best high-end headphones with noice cancellation ... Yup. Bose is much better at cancelling sound than reproducing it — that’s for sure. |