travelinjack
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| Battle of the affordables I've heard most of those. The Kef R11 Meta are very good. The Polk R700 is surprisingly good for their price. If you can find the discontinued Revel F208 on sale for around $2k, grab those. | |
| Which speakers are ideal to pair with a Yamaha as3200 Mofi sourcepoint 10 | |
| Best Receiver for “Mid-Fi” System? Whatever you choose, make sure it has pre-outs so that you can add power amps later. I chose the Denon X3800H and X4800H because they use the MultiEQ XT32 room calibration which is about as good as it gets for out of the box room calibration befo... | |
| Any modern rock recommendations? Gov't Mule Widespread Panic | |
| Best Receiver for “Mid-Fi” System? I would get either Denon X3800H or X4800 for now and then add two of the well reviewed class D mono blocks from Topping or Fosi when I had some more money. Both those Denon have a full set of pre-outs. | |
| Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too? Nathaniel Rateliff is one of the only currently active artists I can think of that just grates my nerves. His voice is so fake and contrived. Truly hate it. | |
| ??? Are Manufacturers Killing Our Hobby ??? When folks can't afford to buy a house or a new car, a nice hifi is really not on the radar at all. | |
| How large (or small) is the audiophile market? Of my university friends only a handful were/are into hifi. One is a designer at Bose, the rest are engineers or engineering PhD profs or research scientists. None are on the constant hunt for the next big set of gear. They made fairly substant... | |
| Favorite Newly Discovered Female Vocalist Rebekah Todd Madison Cunningham | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? He is a hater and a shill. At best his kits offer small and likely inaudible improvements. | |
| Frequently asking to re-login @mitch2 that's likely it. This site doesn't play nice with VPN | |
| Frequently asking to re-login Are you using a VPN? | |
| "Good" Music Khruangbin, Billy Strings, Sturgill Simpson, Run The Jewels | |
| Please tell me how to set up simple computer system Budget? Powered speakers with an internal DAC would be simplest if you are ok with running a wire from the laptop to the speakers. If you don't want to run the wire then networked powered speakers would be the next best way to connect to the laptop | |
| Soft-dome tweeter damage - NBD or permanently compromised? @b_limo I am pretty sure that was a metal dome tweeter and not a soft/silk dome tweeter in the Erin video. |