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| Subwoofer for Ayre AX-7e? Hi @jazztherapist,I have an AX-7e with a REL T-9 and it sounds great, but has some serious caveats that have been pointed out here. 1. The speaker inputs of the REL are isolated and do indeed work with the Ayre's balanced outputs, as well as other... | |
| speakers with balls Second the Dynaudio recommendation if you’re looking for an “audiophile” speaker that can still rock. The Esotar drivers can handle a lot of power without too much compression. For a smaller speaker, the Special Forty is very ballsy, and has a ful... | |
| Conditioning/Burn-In Method I use an old iPod Nano (remember those?) as my break in source, playing a mixture of music, signal sweeps and white noise MP3s (XLO has one available for free download) on auto repeat for a week. If you have a FM tuner laying around that works too... | |
| Do You Care About AESTHETICS? What Are Your Gear/Listening Room Preferences?... In all seriousness, I am with the OP on this. I very much care about overall aesthetics and I don't like my gear to be intrusive. Quite frankly 90+% of audiophile gear is unattractive to me and if Bang and Olufsen or Apple made a system that had t... | |
| Do You Care About AESTHETICS? What Are Your Gear/Listening Room Preferences?... I believe eligibility for this question can be significantly narrowed by two qualifying ones, "are you single" and if not, "do you have a separate audio cave." If the answer to either is negative it’s usually a nonstarter. (I am no to both. :) ) | |
| Where do I start-amp or speakers ? Tons of exceptions to above though. Matching ends up being the most critical factor and I’ve heard inexpensive setups that clicked and were really enjoyable for relatively little money. | |
| Where do I start-amp or speakers ? Agree with the suggestions to pick speakers first, or at least vet their requirements, since that is the most subjective and variable part of the chain. My preference is to spend more on electronics than speakers though. There are a lot of enjoyab... | |
| Silverline Minuet Grand review Hm the US msrp does appear to be quoted as $2995 everywhere. I'll make the correction, thanks! | |
| Silverline Minuet Grand review Hi @dougsat - thanks. $4k was the price I was quoted for the Special Forty by a local dealer but I'll check on that. | |
| Full-sounding SS amps (besides Pass) Thanks all for the suggestions, some interesting ones I hadn't heard of and will look into. | |
| power cables where do I start? Signal Cable is a good affordable place to start. If you can find an Audience powerChord used at a good price, it's my go-to cord. It's not the best cord for every situation (no one cord is) and the degree of improvement varies, but it's extremely... | |
| Full-sounding SS amps (besides Pass) @phusis working on getting something from Dave Belles. :) | |
| Speakers costing range of 2500-3500 per pair For $2k, I can heartily recommend the Silverline Minuet Grand. Easy to drive, dynamic, superbly coherent and naturally dense midrange. If you don't have a quality sub already, money saved could be applied there, or save up to upgrade amplification... | |
| ELAC Uni-fi - All Hype?? I recommended the UB5 to a friend based solely on the "hype." When they arrived I brought my modified Bryston B60 over to give it a listen. I have to say, even with a less than optimal setup (sitting on a table, using a phone as source), they were... | |
| Best used or new DAC under $3500 Re: Sabre DACs, I haven't auditioned any in home. However I have heard the Auralic DACs in a few different systems and they all had a "HiFi" sound to them that I do not find natural or enjoyable. I can't say for sure it was the Auralic but my gut ... |