soix
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| to bi-wire or not? Ghosthouse is correct. Chris was the one who got me to try this using his jumpers, and in my system it was all positive. Just shows how this cable stuff is really so system dependent. I too thought biwiring required removing jumpers, but that's... | |
| Bi Wire Cables vs Jumpers? Another vote for AZ jumpers. If you choose to try biwire later on you can continue to use the banana jumpers at the same time (not many people seem to do this for some reason -- I know not why). Adding wire jumpers to my existing AZ Satori shotg... | |
| How important is amplifier choice for surround speakers? Just my experience and opinion, but given the relatively low power requirements and volume levels of surround speakers I'd save money there and put more toward a better prepro and/or another sub. I think those would make much bigger relative cont... | |
| to bi-wire or not? My speakers, like yours, are relatively high efficiency designs, and my uneducated guess is that as a result we may hear less benefit from doubling the cable size than might be heard when connected to lower efficiency speakers (and/or amps with hi... | |
| Upgrading from andras Agree. Great speakers. I had the Fontaine Signatures on extended audition a while back -- basically the upper portion of the Andras -- and they were fantastic. Assuming they have similar sonic signatures with the Andras obviously having much gr... | |
| Home audio system recommendations Budget? How big is your room? | |
| Which Budget Speakers, Tekton or Omega? The Ascend Acoustics Sierra Tower may be worth exploring further. Sounds like it might work with your amp, and it seems equally at home with both rock and classical music. One of the main reasons I'm mentioning it is that it's available with a R... | |
| to bi-wire or not? +1 akg. Very speaker dependent. I have compared single vs. shotgun biwire Satoris on my Soliloquy 6.2s and prefer the biwire, but the difference is not night and day. On my cables, the high frequency cable is a standard Satori cable and the mid... | |
| DIY POWER CABLES I may be off, but thought I saw a recent thread where someone had great success using Oyaide cables??? Might have misread it but maybe another option to explore. Supra is another high value cable I remember hearing good things about, but using o... | |
| Where do I start-amp or speakers ? +1 atmasphere. Obviously you're a Thiel fan (so am I), but have you heard other speakers out there? Others I like right up there with Thiel are Vandersteen, Joseph Audio, ProAc, Silverline, and Usher. Maybe this would be a good opportunity to e... | |
| Upgrading front 3 speakers to GoldenEar Triton Reference or B&W Nautilus 800? ONLY 300 Watts??? That's a ton of power that should drive almost any speaker available. Just as an example, back in 2009 Kal Rubinson ran the 802Ds with the lower powered CA-5200 just fine (https://www.stereophile.com/musicintheround/music_in_th... | |
| Upgrading front 3 speakers to GoldenEar Triton Reference or B&W Nautilus 800? You wouldn't need another amp to bi-wire the B&Ws. Just get internally bi-wired cables that have one connection on the amp side and two on the speaker end, or attach two cables to the same output on the amp if you're running a full shotgun pa... | |
| Upgrading front 3 speakers to GoldenEar Triton Reference or B&W Nautilus 800? Full disclosure, I’m not a big fan of B&W speakers for 2-channel music as there are others I prefer. BUT, that said, if I were building a system mainly for HT B&W would be near the top of my list. Why? Their center channel speakers are fan... | |
| Home Theater Processor Is 2-channel music important to you at all or is this primarily an HT rig? | |
| Dated but still A rated DACs Just FYI, Mytek seems to have some pretty significant growing pains. Sounds like they make a great product, but if they can't invest in the business enough to respond to customers and deliver product you have to consider if this is a good investm... |