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| Audio Prism or Enacom line filters I use a single Enacom line filter. It makes a very useful difference in clarity at the top end. This is noticeable either with my main system or with my budget bedroom system.I'm told that adding another Enacom will extend the improvement down nea... | |
| The very best new/used under $3k for classical? Those are pretty good designs you mention in point 8.My own musical preferences may not be too far off yours, and my amps are similarly powered, my room has similar limits.I prefer ProAcs to Dynaudios, but I liked Meadowlark Shearwater Hot Rods an... | |
| 320bee and NHT SB-3's (I have the C320BEE and an earlier NHT model.)Sensitivity of the SB-3s is not high at 86dB but the NAD has a pretty good current reserve and shouldn't compress or clip too soon. The room is on the largish side but if you bring the speakers out fro... | |
| upgrade advice for budget-minded beginner Hi Ethan. Rich's advice (Rar1) is excellent, as usual. Notice that he's talking about your front end. For many of us, speakers are the last thing to upgrade. This is because it is easier, musically, to live with speakers that partially reveal a gr... | |
| pre amp basics Matching a preamp to a power amp is part of system synergy, but it should not be as much of an issue as getting the right amp for your speakers. Aspects of your amp's design like damping factor and power bandwidth are far more important when choos... | |
| Easiest compromise for weakest link? I am going to play to this very interesting problem in its toughest version, the single-source two-channel one.It just doesn't seem like a hard call to me if the system in question has more than one source, or more than two channels. Anyway Jmcgro... | |
| need info on phono pre......... CHEAP The Rega Fono is an exceptional unit at what I consider entry level. | |
| Distant from front wall Fibonacci... but your examples don't appear to be Fibonnaci numbers.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number | |
| i want better sounding speakers the sonus fabers were like a bleach blond w/fake breastsNow now, some of us quite like them that way...( rofl, thanks, I had a good chuckle over that post... ) | |
| i want better sounding speakers Tomryan, I wasn't being serious--maybe you aren't either, or maybe you are. How can numeric values be set on such a subjective issue, and anyway isn't it clear that distortion (which is how that "breakdown" was presented to me, way back when--your... | |
| i want better sounding speakers it may be time to challenge conventional wisdomEusmani, with respect, I thought my point of view was the minority one. In other words, I believe the conventional wisdom says spend all your dough on speakers. That's what you hear in the box and mid... | |
| i want better sounding speakers Maineiac, about that iPod demo ( the Wilson Audio one, I presume you mean ). Can you tell me, was Mr. Wilson using MP3 or Redbook-PCM coded source files, do you know? It would obviously make a large difference to the significance of that demo.Beem... | |
| i want better sounding speakers Jesseo1, you never get there. If you did you would be deaf, dead, or in love with ( obsessing over ) something else. The journey is the destination, to coin a cliché. And the gear makers know how to get you no matter what you have.But it need not ... | |
| i want better sounding speakers Just to give you more excuses to pout: in my very humble ( hah ! ) opinion you shouldn't even be considering speakers at all. You should be listening to sources.To paraphrase a great writer ( humble, yah ), a man who is tired of his music system i... | |
| i want better sounding speakers Yes, vague. If you are tired of listening, are you sure it's your speakers that are the reason? If you intend to move from home theatre to 2-channel, you'll have a chance to upgrade your source. In my experience, listening to an ordinary source th... |