twoleftears
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| Joseph Audio Perspective next steps +1 Upgrade to Graphene is the obvious move. | |
| put tube amp on to shelf of a rack https://www.amazon.com/Stark-Industrial-Engine-Folding-Workshop/dp/B07WZXTTKF These work well; just be sure to get some nice soft but strong flat straps to go around the amp. | |
| Alternative speaker suggestion to B&W 805d3 For somewhat less bright and still very detailed, as well as excellent looking, check out Salk speakers. There's a recent thread where a member went through a number of options before arriving at Salks. Worth checking out. | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? Yup. Nice post. Couldn't agree more. | |
| My pet peeve: "revealing" speakers Just wondering if Harman International had missed out an "a". | |
| Signal to Noise Ratio and Amplifier Distortion Yes, noise and distortion are two different things.The question, in audio applications, is at what level does noise actually become audible, other than by a few golden ears. | |
| My pet peeve: "revealing" speakers Are Revel models especially revealing? | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? Electronic Dance Music. Oh boy. | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? If as claimed above contemporary music sounds good and it's the fault of our systems if it doesn't, perhaps we should be listening to it on those giant powered professional monitors they have in studios, because evidently it sounded good (and just... | |
| Audio Research Sold It's pretty darn obvious that a couple of things are going on here.Many small, successful, quality audio operations have been snapped up by conglomerates over the years. A few of them have subsequently gone independent again, often taken over by ... | |
| Integrated brand choice -- Simaudio, Hegel or Mark Levinson? With Focals I'd err towards Luxman, Accuphase, Pass, Ayre.The Belles Aria Signature integrated is available nowl; the Virtuoso integrated will still be a little while coming. | |
| Tubed Preamp recommendations? No Quicksilver? | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Murray Perahia: Schumann, Davidbundlertanze & Fantasiestucke. | |
| Integrated brand choice -- Simaudio, Hegel or Mark Levinson? The question remains as to how much of a family resemblance there is between the 340 and the 600i v2, which is more in the OP's price bracket. | |
| If a speaker stand is mass-loading, how much does it matter what they're made of? These people make excellent quality stands.https://www.customdesign.co.uk/speaker-stands-acoustic-steel-hifi-isolation-platform-speaker-stand-supports-hifi-stands-hifi-isolation-support-hifi-furniture-hifi-table-hifi-supports-hifi-isolation-stand-... |