sonicnirvana
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| List of Floorstanders around $6500.00 NEW Silverline Sonata III, retail is $7200.The total package at the price, for mine. Easy to drive too. | |
| Exposure 2010S CD player Yeah, I had one here this week that the local Aussie importer brought around to play with.Basically, I liked it. For the price I think it amongst the most natural-sounding players I've heard, not suffering too much digi-itice. Very easy to listen ... | |
| Consonance Droplet....anyone heard it at home yet? I have been using a Droplet for a couple of months now. It was the very first one into Australia.Outstanding player. Smooth, very transparent, sublime bass, excellent staging, musicality, all the rest.Large and heavy, yes, (the box it comes in loo... | |
| Best system for jazz? This jazz flunkie uses Supratek Sauvignon/ Atma-sphere M60s into Silverline Sonatas IIIs and for my taste this is just divine.Space, pace, transparency and focus in spades and just plain natural music. For me that is what makes a system cook with ... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century I have been in a state of bliss since my Sauvignon clocked up 10 hours.Out of the box I was happy with it, but in a short time, the bird has taken flight, with more to come with time and some tube rolling. As the key that unlocked the door to a wh... | |
| Supratek Tubes and Tube Swappin' for Everybody I'll be a little while before using these, as my Sauvignon is brand new (today!), but for what it's worth Mick sent me these NOS tubes to play with:6SN7GTA Australian-made by AWV "Super Radiotron". Black base.Italian Fivre 6F6GT NOS tubes. Black b... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Fortunately I am in Australia so I don't need that, but thanks for the thought Larry!It was supposed to be leaving today, so I really am hanging for it.He's sending some NOS tubes with it as a thanks for something I sent him he liked for his vinyl... | |
| Supratek Tubes and Tube Swappin' for Everybody I am getting my Sauvignon next week! Hooray!On a kinda swap basis for some vinyl stuff, Mick is sending me some NOS tubes he likes to run in the Sauvignon. I'll know what they are when they get here and WILL report back.As a real newbie when it co... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century My Sauvignon is due next week (It's finished!). Can't wait either....I'm just dying to hear what the Sauvignon / Atma-sphere M60 combo sounds like!I'll second that (or third, whatever) on the separate tube rolling thread. | |
| What does listening to a speaker really tell us? Woking "across" some of the interesting perspectives above, I would offer this:Last night when listening to a variety of music, it didn't matter how this might compare to a "live music event". It was its own thing. I delighted in the clarity of th... | |
| What does listening to a speaker really tell us? Absolutely, Rockvirgo!For this reason, in a practical sense, I'd rate a remote volume control more important than a "technically superior" one in most circumstances.There seems always to be the "right volume", although the best systems seem someho... | |
| What does listening to a speaker really tell us? Fabulous topic with existentialist leanings, I love it!For mine, we walk a tightrope in "Audiophilia". There is this side that says "accuracy" is what we need, that what comes out of our speakers is as close a reproduction of what is going on upst... | |
| How do you determine how much to spend on speakers Personally I start with speakers. Whatever does it for me that I can afford.And then I build a system around them that works as best it can as funds permit.This way you end up with a good front end that when the time comes to upgrade the speakers,... | |
| Personal speaker evolution I started with a pair of 1.Kenwood 8" 2 ways, they were about $A130 pair in 1976. I was 17 at the time and I worked weekends at a garage.....2.Then a pair of Studiocraft 440s,1978, which were the direct-firing versions of Bose 501s. Maybe $A400 pr... | |
| Power amp for Silverline Sonata III Thanks Lissnr (and other contributors)Being on the other side of the world from where it is all happening makes it hard to try all the possibilities, so I just have to "wing it" with as much good input as I can get, and working from a lot of exper... |