subaruguru
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| Beautiful Speakers Hi Sugarbie! If beauty also means smallish stature (and to my wife it does), the only high performance 3-ways she found aesthetically acceptable in our music/living room were the 803N/804N and the Verity Audio Fidelio/Parsifal. The build quality o... | |
| prevent hardening of speaker surrounds Armorall--if it works on auto door seals that are exposed to extreme temperatures, pressures, and UV light, it should keep butyl surrounds supple, too. OTOH I've never seen butyl surround degrade. Wouldn't a change in resonance (Fs) be more relate... | |
| Shelf Material Hi Redkiwi. Found your opening remarks very interesting. I'm trying to struggle through with an old Rotel 855 while mulling new digital front end options, and am trying to reduce high frequency roughness now apparent in my new otherwise-highly-res... | |
| Burn-in time Vs. Getting used to a sound Bought some used Red Dawn rev II Nordosts which were multiple-spades (shotgunned?) at one end. Since I have non-biwirable speakers (Verity), but have amps (Alephs) with two sets of output jacks it made perfect sense to wire 'em that way. Sure enou... | |
| Male audiophile seeking Female audiophil Again: If a man speaks in the forest and no woman hears him, is he still wrong? | |
| what is everybody listening to right now The Burns Sisters..."Who?" Three sisters from Ithaca who sing tight harmony with the Roches' (remember them?) beauty and precision, but with the swing of Emily Lou Harris, the drive of Bonny Raitt, and the intelligence of Janis Ian (who raves abou... | |
| Why lots of B&W Nautilus for sale used? Driver integration issues I addressed relate to the listening distance from the speaker (front-to-back), NOT lateral separation, as seemingly responded to in a few posts above.... I simply couldn't get the 804 (REALLY needs a sub!) or the 803 Naut... | |
| Why lots of B&W Nautilus for sale used? Hmmm...I carefully auditioned 803N and 804N at home, and purchased neither. I had waited for B&W to ramp up production of the 804, as its size was ideal for my needs. Dealers explained that the 803N was a much better speaker, and that the 804N... | |
| Burn-in time Vs. Getting used to a sound If a man speaks in the forest and there is no woman to hear him is he still wrong?? (couldn't resist....) | |
| Integrated tube amplifier - finest ? I found the VAC Avatar to so profoundly change tonal color that I felt compared to measure its response (on an easy 4.5-9.5 ohm speaker load): compared to several SS amps, which mutually agreed well within the +-0.25 dB resolution of my meter, the... | |
| Aleph-3 Questions Kacz: my sentiments exactly! The synergy that exists between an Aleph P and Nelson's amps is wonderful. Tonality, resolution, transparency, silence, and extraordinary depth. (Christ, I sound like a bloody ad...time to get some sleep!) | |
| Best intergrated amp. for US$800 The Audio Refinement Complete is an amazingly musical, yet forgivingly smooth integrated for an inexpensive system. I demoed it extensively against NAD and ACURUS ($1600), and could not believe how much better it sounded. I eventually selected PAS... | |
| 3-D Imaging: How?? Are your 805s positioned too close to the front wall because you need to fill in the bottom octave and tame their too-hot tweeters? Sorry if I'm being presumptuous, but I tried the Nautilus (803/4s) series and found the tweeter way too hot (especi... | |
| $1k speakers / Audio Refinement Complete Idaho, you didn't mention your ROOM! I too tried, and loved, the smooth sound of the ARC, but decided to spend way more on PASS Aleph separates. If I was setting up a second system there's no question I'd select the ARC as a musical, yet forgiving... | |
| Preamp with deep soundstage suggestions My Aleph P ($1850 used) throws an extremely deep, 3D stage. Good luck. |