steve59
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| Hegel comparison My fave was a Krell kav 300il that had a habit of baking itself. I was using an old pair of revel salon 1's when I brought home everything up to $6k price range. My main music was live recordings 1 specifically being 'big head todd and the monster... | |
| Hegel comparison cundare2, I have a h360 and a h590. Before buying a h590 I tried a stand alone dac for the h360. It has the latest sabre chipset(like the h600). If you can confirm the 590 and 600 are different because of the dac imo you'd be smart to save the m... | |
| KEF Blade or Blade 2 IDK, Before selling my r107/2’s I opened them up to a-b the xover components with each other. 25-30 years old all the caps were wrapped in a black plastic wrap that said kef on them so I had no way of knowing how well they were made? individually ... | |
| KEF Blade or Blade 2 2 posts talking smack. welcome to the forum troll. | |
| Floorstanding speaker experiences/recommendations in the $12-25k range Around 2015 I embarked on a similar journey. I lost a bit of money learning how much room, placement, and components affect speakers sound. I decided to follow used speaker value and limited the speakers I would try to speakers I could reasonab... | |
| Magico A5 vs SF Amati vs Raidho D3 - Help me decide! If you like Magico I really think you should stick with them. Raidho speakers are fussy to placement and Sonus Faber I might consider the opposite of magico. We like what we like and everything else sounds a little off. | |
| KEF Blade or Blade 2 I played that track, Santana/Steve Winwood on the blade 1 non meta and there's no sibilance to be heard. From the early Uniq drivers sibilance was an issue and kef finally fixed it with the Blade and it seems backwards that they would reintroduce ... | |
| Revel Salon2s: Seeking Advice and we're off... | |
| MQA•Foolish New Algorithm? Vote! Tidal is moving away from MQA and Pink Floyd 'The division bell has a version with mixed formats and with my dac and roon streamer MQA clearly sounded better in 24/88.1 compared to flac 24/192. the flac was 2 dimensional or boring and it's obvious... | |
| Do You Buy Speakers Without Hearing Them? If there's a pair on sale used I'm interested in that I think I can resell without losing much money I will buy them so I can compare them at home with my own components. I've bought 5-7 different pair and there's still 2 or 3 I'm interested in, b... | |
| shy about prices hifi is subjective. I know there's places on the net that say science proves different and if you buy into that than just buy the cheap stuff they recommend. otherwise the law of diminishing returns is different for everyone depending on their bud... | |
| Borresen Loudspeakers I listened to a pair of Borresen 02’s at next level a few years ago that sounded a bit dry compared to the raidho D1.1 I listen to at the next level room during axpona. I pay attention to setup and components in use when I hear speakers I like and... | |
| Help with speaker selection <$20k Right now a pair of usher be20dmd's dirt cheap and if my room was a bit bigger I'd never sold my pair. | |
| Speakers - Your "Safest" Choice Spend around $1000 on a pair of VA Beethovens. The ones in the slightly taller box with 2 woofers, 2 mids and a soft dome tweeter. I sold mine in 2016 and went on a journey starting with $10k and after 4-5 different speakers I repurchased the VA's... | |
| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, are we talking about speakers that were discontinued 10 years or more or designed 10 years or more? |