steve59
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| 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 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? | |
| ATC SCM40 No offense intended. | |
| What to ask when buying used speakers? I've had buyers drive from 400 to 900 miles to pick up a pair of used speakers and I've driven as much as 350 to buy a pair. Again, paypal is 4%, Agon is 4% shipping on a pair of floorstanding speakers on a pallet and insured will be expensive. Su... | |
| ATC SCM40 I always thought the appeal of ATC, besides the midrange driver that had its day, but would now probably among a group of quality mids, was that they were active and could be relied on to sound consistent compared to passive brands? | |
| KEF Blade or Blade 2 Doing a google search on some product led me to an agon post that was clearly written by me back in the phone modem days with a different screen name and email address I'd completely forgotten about. Thanks for clarifying. I was also one that tri... | |
| KEF Blade or Blade 2 Did you change your screen name? I know i'm late, I forget to check in. With the Blade meta's out I think the original Blade's are a flat out bargain. I stayed away from them for years because the first write up I read I think the journalist claim... | |
| can subwoofers make things worse? YES. Other than truck/car audio and HT the money spent on subs could be added to a speaker budget and if one's strapped for cash there's plenty of used, floor standing active speakers out there that will deliver the goods and take less floor space. |