twoleftears
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| Questions that Never Die How many watts are enough?Copper vs. silver?Spikes, footers, or nothing at all?Best filler for stands for standmounts?Best awg gauge for speaker cables?Power conditioning or straight into the wall?And on and on... | |
| What sends shivers down your spine when you play it on your system? The Adagietto from Mahler's 6th. | |
| Is the ideal multi-way a 3-way with limited bass? It's much more about the size of the listening room than the size of the woofer(s). As you've got two variables in play, I don't see how you can arrive at any firm general conclusion. Rather you'd have to say, for a room of X size, Y size, etc. | |
| More power for moderate listening levels? As per Stereophile: XA25 80 watts into 8 ohms; XA30.8 130 watts into 8 ohms; and you can go up from there. | |
| As Good as a Mohican... But Used. The Hegel, Bryston, and Marantz will all be good, but will have different sonic presentations.The BCD-3 will be strictly neutral. Never heard the Mohican but odds are it will be close. The Marantz will be a little warmer. A lot of Audiogon memb... | |
| More power for moderate listening levels? @atmasphere Here's Stereophile's test of the Harbeth SLH5 plus.https://www.stereophile.com/content/harbeth-super-hl5plus-loudspeaker-measurements It drops to 6 ohms at one point, and just below 6 ohms at another point. But for much of the range i... | |
| U-Haul Small Shipping Boxes for vinyl In movers' terminology what you need are "book boxes". If you have a lot of vinyl, they're cheaper from some generic or wholesale outlet. However, they are sized for standard LPs. The strength of a packed box is predicated on it being filled to ... | |
| A move from Harbeth to... Wilson? The few times I've listened to Vandersteens, they struck me as having a rather "forward" presentation. By this I'm not referring to tonal balance, which was fine, but rather to where the plane of the sound stage started, which was well in front o... | |
| Why is black so popular for components? I miss the old battleship-grey NAD pieces.I don't know why more manufacturers didn't adopt a similar color. | |
| As Good as a Mohican... But Used. It all depends on what you mean by "good".It should be easy to pick up a used Marantz Ruby SACD for under 3K, and they're very good. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Here's an instrumentalist whom I hadn't heard before: Hille Perl. To me she sounds like stiff competition to Jordi Savall et al. on the viola da gamba. The Schenck CD is excellent, with superb sound and impassioned playing. I have immediately or... | |
| Warm romantic & detailed Because I rank it close up there with the Harbeths and Spendors recommended by others, I'm going to mention the Vienna Acoustics Liszt again. You can get exceptional bargains on used examples if you keep your eyes open. | |
| Seriously? Why Buy ARC Ref 6SE? seems Benchmark LA4 is a better choice. Anyone read the Jason Serinus review of the ARC preamp in Stereophile? The Benchmark got a brief comparative listen and, err, didn't come off too well.(Full disclosure: of Stereophile's reviewers, JS gets on my nerves a great deal more than anyon... | |
| A move from Harbeth to... Wilson? I auditioned several models of Daedalus before getting Harbeths. The Daedali (?) are very good, very even-handed, so to say, but none of them produced the 40.2 magic. | |
| Musical fidelity M6SI problem. How hot does yours run? I heard they're heavily biased into Class A. |