twoleftears
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| Speaker upgrade for classical music Four recommendations.If you can swing it, Harbeth 40.2. The regular 40.2 model is now superseded by the Anniversary edition and the 40.3 XD, but the real difference in performance is minimal. Which means that the 40.2 becomes more affordable, if... | |
| Speaker upgrade @ssmaudio Decide on a budget. Describe the rest of your system. Describe the dimensions and salient features of your listening room. Describe the kind of sound/presentation you're aiming for. Post all this information in a new thread and let... | |
| REVEL performa3 f208 or TEKTON Moab JV--judging by all your comments in this thread, those Tektons will suit you perfectly. | |
| Speaker recommendation $10-20K (with some requirements!) I listened extensively to the Salk Song3 BeAT. There was a great deal to recommend it; but on an orchestral selection with massed ff violins, there was a hint of glare, that I blamed on the beryllium tweeter. The only BE tweeter that I liked acr... | |
| Former Special 40 - Advice on next purchase? Or you could look at the Fritz Carrera, which gives you the bass extension of many smaller floorstanders. | |
| Flexible Shielded Tonearm IC? You can get 90 degree connectors on phono cables. | |
| Priorities MC is a fiction of his own imagination. Not everyone can manage that.And oh yes, the malleus, incus, stapes, cochlea, etc. etc. are utterly irrelevant. | |
| Kimber 4tc good enough? These Kimber SCs exhibit high or very high capacitance, which cannot be recommended. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Here's a real revelation for me. Mendelssohn, complete piano music, played by Howard Shelley, on Hyperion. The playing is excellent, the recording is superb (the piano is in my room), and the music has come as a most pleasant surprise. I starte... | |
| Where can Open Baffle speakers be placed Take a look at Audio Note. Designed for Japanese- and British-sized rooms. | |
| Speaker recommendation $10-20K (with some requirements!) @mathiasmingus I heard the Contour 60's at Command Performance in Washington DC. No reason to believe the -i iteration is massively different. It conforms to my model of the "modern" loudspeaker sound. Thankfully, there are still a few brands ... | |
| Opportunity You can do better. | |
| Anyone hear SF Venere's? Thougts? Agreed. The Venere line was built to a price point (let's just say inexpensive) and engineering to impress superficially during a brief in-store demo. But take them home and listen to them for a while, and you'll discover that they are not keepe... | |
| New Klipsch Forte III’s Buy a second REL. | |
| Do speakers choose your music preference There have been discussions on this forum that do indeed suggest that recordings of a full-scale symphony orchestra can be the hardest kind of recording to play back satisfactorily in a domestic setting. If your speakers can't cope, you may well ... |