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Vienna Acoustics The Music
I’d take The Music over a Salon 2 any day. Not sure what VA speakers you heard, but if you need a speaker to play louder, you probably have bad hearing loss, or are expecting too much out of a speaker for the given room size. CTFD.The Beethove... 
Vienna Acoustics The Music
BUMP. My experience with VA loudspeakers that use the spidercone drivers was sacrificing spl for the natural sound ! Is 'The Music' also limited to reproducing small jazz ensembles at live levels or can this speaker match the output of speakers li... 
Enthusiast's Review A/B Focal Sopra 2 and Electra 1028be (II)
bump, I appreciate the common theme with resolving speakers when it comes down to picking the recording quality to compliment the speakers and I had many brands with 'hot tweeters' that stood out in demo's and sucked at home or cost a fortune in s... 
Bluesound vs SOtM
i'm also learning about streaming hi rez audio and run a usb cable from my laptop that defaults to 24/48k output to the dac in my h360, I have no idea if this is the best sound I can get but it does give me a decent menu to navigate. 
What is you TIDAL setup?
Does running tidal from a laptop thru usb to a hegel h360 provide hi rez or is a streamer still needed? anybody? 
Newbie Looking for Advice on Streaming Music
My integrated, a hegel h360 has an onboard dac but i'm new to streaming and currently run a usb from a laptop to the unit and with tidal's highest res option many songs sound very good but am I getting the most from both formats? 1 being tidal and... 
A Must Hear under $5,000
bump, keep it going! for $5k new or used what would you buy? 
160Hegel and DNLA . . .
Playing spotify off my laptop sometimes the usb connection will cause a momentary dropout but otherwise so far so good. 
Which integrated amp would you pick?
Have a KAV300il, anthem 225i, parasound a21, and my Hegel H360 driving my ancient ultima salons. The krell was great til the amp section melted leaving me with a decent pre. The 225I had the juice and didn't sound bad just maybe sterile would be a... 
Magnepan 1.7i vs. 3.6
I bought the H360 Black friday after listening to the new h190 and if the case of the h190 hadn't gotten warm to the touch I was more than satisfied with the sound and it's $1700 less than the H360. Using my Hegel to drive v1 ultima salons and hav... 
Hegel H360 comparing to seperates?
I never had them side by side so we're dealing with my reaction to the gear over time, four days.Soundstage was huge with both, noise floor also excellent, but dynamic? can that go to the lower powered amp? As great as the H360 does with the midra... 
Review: Revel Ultima Salon Speaker
is 12 years later a bump! the ultima salons are becoming arrordable on the used market and really shouldn't be ignored by anyone shopping in $4-6k price range because revel still stocks replacement drivers and these are musical full range speakers... 
Hegel vs Rogue
I just bought the H360 for my revel salon's and I demoed the rost and h190, the replacement for the h160, and tbh they all sounded so clean and 'live' that any of the 3 sounded good and the h190 with 150/250 into 4ohms was going to be the one I bo... 
Has any heard the new McIntosh MA8900 integrated?
BUMP, I just bought the h360 and after mentioning it to a fellow music lover he asked me if I had listened to MAC gear to which I replied "I can't find a dealer that will let me take a mac home", and sometimes you just know when it's as good as it... 
Hegel H360 comparing to seperates?
I have to say the H190 may sound a bit better than the h360 I bought friday. My speakers are current hungry and I baked a 200 wpc Krell int several times under warranty because it got so hot, that was my reasoning for stepping up to the h360 even ...