steve59
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| Integrated brand choice -- Simaudio, Hegel or Mark Levinson? For the Focal 1028be I would lean towards the Mark Levinson. I have a Hegel H360 and H590 and really appreciate what they do, but I've heard the 1028be with older average recordings and it needs a warm forgiving amp and Hegel's are neutral. Sim idk | |
| "The Ultra High-End Speaker." I also owned the salon 2 and several other speakers in their price group. The persona 7f and usher be20dmd at the same time and being able to rotate speakers at will and listen as long as wanted I was able to hear specifically to what they did di... | |
| Have you found your "End-Game" speakers yet? I have. And it feels so good!!! I wanted my salon 2's to be my end game speakers, and I was surprised my 250/425 wpc amp didn't have the juice to wake them up. Makes me wonder how many end game speakers I've owned that I didn't have the right compliment of components to bring ... | |
| What do you all think of ADS/Braun speakers? I bought the L9e monitors, 7" woofer and ADS trademark dome mid & tweet. I think when compared to the competition in the late 80's early 90's they were good speakers for the money. Solid cabinets with nice veneers, steel grills and above avera... | |
| How to make the Focal Kanta No. 2 speakers sing? Interesting how much difference a room makes! I brought home a pair od Kanta 3's for a couple weeks, used a hegel H360 to drive them. I loved the upper mids and treble, but was also troubled by lightweight upper bass, A huge boost in mid bass and ... | |
| LIST ALL YHE SPEAKERS YOU HAVE OWNED THEN TILL NOW! love these threads! Fischer xp95c (poor mans CV at15) Bose 901vI. Hung from the ceiling sounded DYNAMIC. Epicure model 5 ADS L9e KEF R105/3 (20+ years) Vienna acoustics Beethoven (sold and repurchased!!! I love these. revel f52, revel salo... | |
| any current integrated amps in market have great dacs? If you also listen to mqa the dac in the hegel h590 is really good. The chipset is no longer available (AKM) so the new model H600 uses the sabre 32 bit chipset. Can't speak for the new model but really like what I hear with the h590. | |
| KEF LS60 with a pair of KC62s v Blade 2 The uniq in the Blade and Blade 2 have a 3" voice coil and multiple other considerations intended for hi power handling and high output with low distortion unique to any of the other models before or since. Like most speakers in their price range... | |
| Sopra No 2's or other alternatives? I really enjoy Focals mids and top end with above average recordings, but IDK if there's a less forgiving brand of bright recordings than anything made by focal, Triangle, Cabasse? Man those French really like detail. When you're shopping for spea... | |
| Replace Ayre gear & kEF Reference 1s with KEF LS60s? How sensitive is your hearing at 87? It might not matter a whole lot other than the impressive rack of Ayre gear showing a level of success the ls 60 won't convey. | |
| Bi-Amping McIntosh MC303 I use the Kef Blades in a 2 channel system and connect the speaker wires to the 4 ohm taps to my Mc611. The other taps on the back plate of the Mac ampa aren't for multiple speaker wires so much as matching to speaker load. Whatever load you decid... | |
| $50k - $80k Budget…Opinions please. An $80k pair of Meridian dsp8000se for $18k | |
| McIntosh C2700: different volume for different outputs? (maybe a dumb question!) seems redundant since the atc actives should have their own volume control and be fed by a line out. | |
| Hegel H190 $2800 I found the H190 to be a big step up from the h160 and it includes a headphone jack on the side. Nice find. | |
| Paradigm 3f vs 120h I have AT’s back here, the 120 will boogie and don’t do anything wrong. The persona’s get a bad rap because they’re very sensitive to component matching and placement, but having spent so much time with the persona 7f in different rooms and with d... |