tom2015
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| What % Of Your System Are Your Cables? At retail 50% actual cost about 10%. Cable depreciation is significant once the generation changes and gives excellent buying opportunities. | |
| ??? What Is The MOST Expensive System You Ever Heard ??? What Was Your Opinion ??? Several. MBL Van Schweikert Magico Acora Wilson Estelon All sounded great and provided what was described above. These systems are not intended for background music or casual listening. They offer an experience of a home concert for 1-2 ... | |
| Is the Rockport Avior II an Endgame Speaker? I own the Atria II. They are very good and I can listen for hours without fatigue. Avior II has more bass which I augment with 2 subs. Next step up would be 100k+ speakers. I would believe one can be very happy with any Rockport speaker. Room and ... | |
| NAD M66 Any more experiences with this unit? Especially using it as preamp specifically for the Dirac correction in a challenging room. | |
| More potential bad news for some big names... Like every year I went to Capital audio Fest on Sunday. It was great, I felt like I was the only one there. Had several rooms to myself like the big Focals. Exhibitors started packing up around 3. Show goes to 4. Somehow the industry thinks that ... | |
| New! Cerious Technologies Lumniscate cables Has anybody compared the power cables to other popular options from AQ, Transparent or Nordost? | |
| 32 pairs of speaker and RCA cables measured and listened to None, as this study shows, there is no clear correlation between measurements to a specific sound signature. Much faster to plug them in and to listen. | |
| 32 pairs of speaker and RCA cables measured and listened to No surprise here, cables sound different. The deniers either can’t hear well or have non resolving stereos. | |
| Looking for a CD / SACD player. Also, tell me about Esoteric K01x owner here. Sounds great, happy. No desire to change it. Disadvantage of Esoteric. 1) Constant planned obsolescence, every 2 years a new model which devalues the “older” players 2) only 1 service center in US (Los Angeles) 3) Repairs are ... | |
| Is the idea of audiophile listening a dying concept as boomers die off? Bottom line for me. Industry is doing fine. Look at any of the recommendation threads here. 1 question, 100 brands mentioned and recommended. No real consolidation, no companies dominating the market, lots of new entries every year and very few co... | |
| Is the idea of audiophile listening a dying concept as boomers die off? @hilde45 People under 50 that can afford the pricier items have demanding jobs and families. I would count myself in that group and have 0 time to go to Audiophile group outing. I am happy if I can listen 2-3 hours a week. The luxury of time + mo... | |
| ABX testing with AQ Dragon power cords So he can’t hear the difference. Fine, he saved himself some money. Untrained people that don’t know what to listen for are useless to evaluate high end stereos. My daughter says her iPhone sounds as good as my system… I have Dragon HC, Cerious ... | |
| Where was the best reproduced sound you ever heard? Schweikert Ultra 11 with the VAC / Esoteric /Kronos setup they bring to CAP in the large Atrium room. Concert hall feeling. Alone the Masterbuild cables were close to $250k, around $1M system. | |
| Example of a piece o’ crap, useless review So in the end it is a business for the professional reviewers. If they were to give critical reviews about specific products other manufacturers will avoid them as it could stop the business for a small manufacturer. So in mutual dependency we onl... | |
| Example of a piece o’ crap, useless review The problem in this hobby is that there is no baseline. If every reviewer would start with the same speakers, amp, etc then a comparison would be meaningful. Since every reviewer has a different setup and all of us have different setups the varia... |