tomcarr
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| Rate my system and chose the next upgrade +1 slaw | |
| Rate my system and chose the next upgrade And watch Michael Fremer's DVD on turntable setupTom | |
| Rate my system and chose the next upgrade Focus on your room and your setup first.Get Jim Smith's book.Get Robert Harley's book.Pay attention and study what you read.Set up your gear in a dedicated listening room.Keep working on the best setup til your system "plays the room".Then do acou... | |
| Best Bang For The Buck I've Ever Spent @goheelz, @cbalmeida,Thank you for the interest. Pictures to follow...Tom | |
| Best Bang For The Buck I've Ever Spent @erik_squires , excellent point! | |
| Best Bang For The Buck I've Ever Spent @koestner , nice to hear that. I've been considering getting one.@jperry , excellent! | |
| Fastest way to correct hifi system? +1 enginedr1960The room is the most important, and most overlooked piece of the puzzle.Jim Smith's book is excellent.All of the previous posts are valid and worth paying attention to.I've been in this hobby since 1975, and am still seeking, tweaki... | |
| Can the WAF Kill an Audio System? Dedicated listening room with a dedicated AC line.If your system is in the living room, you end up with a compromised listening room and a compromised living room.Tom | |
| Speaker phase observation and question? I also have a pair of MA Silver 8s that I fiddled with phase for years, and was never quite happy with the results. They play loud, they play clean, but I never was completely happy with imaging, soundstaging and coherence.Bought a pair of Vanders... | |
| Vandersteen help needed In my almost 14x14 room, after multiple experiments with placement, I've gotten the best, most natural, most holographic sound with my Vandy 2Cs 7 feet apart (measured from the center of the speaker), no toe-in, and 12 inches from the front wall (... | |
| OK, Monitor Audio RX6 or Tannoy XT6F @sfall, agree on all you said. I've still got the 8s in another system, but now am using Vandersteen 2Cs in my primary system. The 8s are easy to drive and don't have any weaknesses. And I would also agree on the Vandy 1Cs in that price range.Tom | |
| OK, Monitor Audio RX6 or Tannoy XT6F Going out on a limb here, but here goes... I own a pair of MA Silver RX8s that were in my main system for several years and am very familiar with their strengths and weaknesses.I have read glowing reviews about the Tannoys.Soooo...because the Tann... | |
| Looking for CD player recommendations that are a great match with Classe & Vandersteen @xlinkaudio,Good point about the decoding.I bought a gold MFSL SACD Bob Dylan for $35 and compared it back-to-back with my standard CD for over an hour and had to conclude I couldn't tell the difference.I can tell major differences in recording qu... | |
| Looking for CD player recommendations that are a great match with Classe & Vandersteen @xlinkaudio,Interesting! Would not have expected that. Tom | |
| Looking for CD player recommendations that are a great match with Classe & Vandersteen And it's nice to be able to listen to HDCDs, SACDs, DVD-As...Tom |