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| WAF Speaker suggestions If you’d like to maintain the time/phase coherence of your Vandys in a smaller footprint with more detail, here’s a nice pair of Thiel CS1.6 (with outriggers) through an estate sale for US$2500. But here’s the kicker -- this INCLUDES the Thiel SS1... | |
| Looking for a SPDIF cable from Adiogon I'd recommend getting this $40 Apogee Wyde Eye digital cable from Audiogon that you can at least use as a good benchmark for comparison if nothing else. I've used it for years and prefer it to my Stereovox (aka Black Cat) XV2, which sounds thin a... | |
| Home theater help from scratch 5.2 25k budget I have to agree with audiotroy. If I’ve got that budget and building a home theater I’m going with ATC speakers and probably the Anthem AVM 60 too. I’d start with this nice used active C3C center...https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lis9f6b5-atc-c3... | |
| Affordable Decent Preamp & thoughts on Emotiva XSP-1 vs PS Audio Stellar Gain Stage In your situation I’d consider this Anthem AVM50 prepro. It’s got a decent preamp section, but maybe even more important given your limited speaker placement options and sub you might find Anthem’s room correction and sub integration capabilities ... | |
| Caveat about the Cable Company return policy I once used The Cable Company many years ago to try out some interconnects. They kinda messed up and I never used them again, but I saw where they could add value to a certain customer -- at least back then. Now I don’t need their advice, and the ... | |
| Speaker Recommendations - from Vandersteen 5As These Usher Be-10s are a bit over your price range, but they're in NYC so maybe worth an audition. https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lis9a143-usher-b-10-speakers-newest-cardas-internal-wiring-with-di...Also some nice Acoustic Zen Crescendoshttps:... | |
| Looking for a good full range floor stander There's a rare pair of JA Pearls available for $13k. Dealer demo in great shape and full 5-year warranty. You know what to do. https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649537368-joseph-audio-pearl/ | |
| Most impressive small footprint speaker Boenicke. | |
| Help selecting a new preamp At your price level the Linear Tube Audio Micro ZOTL is definitely worth a serious look. Teajay (a member here) did a nice review of it on 6moons, and he preferred it to the Backert Rhumba (not sure which version) and every other preamp he’s heard... | |
| Speaker selector app. And you think you’d get better recommendations from an app than you would here why? Sorry I wasted my time here. | |
| Which cable They hear everything. | |
| Which cable I just rewired my doorbell with a double run of Acoustic Zen Satoris and getting much better tonality and soundstaging. There are some people who say they can’t hear a difference between doorbell cables, but with proper setup and assuming the door... | |
| Help selecting a new preamp What are you looking to improve upon over your current preamp, and what overall sound reproduction characteristics are most important to you? Are you looking for tubes or solid state, or either? | |
| Speaker selector app. These Acoustic Zen Crescendos will get you pretty close at a little over your price target...https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649526567-acoustic-zen-crescendos-mappa-burl/Or these Nola KOs if you can pick them up local...https://www.ebay.com/it... | |
| Which new amp to get? A Class-A amp that may sound truly special with your speakers is the Valvet A4 Mkll. They are monoblocks that are rated at 55Wpc and 90Wpc into 8 and 4 Ohms, respectively, but with large power supplies they punch well above their weight. And acc... |