twoleftears
Responses from twoleftears
| Speaker upgrade around 100k retail Can't do better than the Gamut Zodiac. | |
| Footers under my speakers double the perceived value of my speakers! Isolators, cones, or combo? | |
| Need Direction... RME AD/DA? | |
| Tube Amps and Friendly Speakers - Back Impedance Yes, the tweeter should open up over a bit of time. I agree that you should use the 8 ohm taps during the run-in period.The issue of ss vs. tube and high vs. low power with 40 series Harbeths is, frankly, completely unresolved, with strongly held ... | |
| How to select a good Speaker Cable Time to start experimenting.https://www.amazon.com/KnuKonceptz-Kolossus-Kable-Gauge-Copper/dp/B008U38CPE | |
| How to select a good Speaker Cable Battery cables ride again!! Woohoo!I wonder if somebody makes hawsers out of copper... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados OK, so I know I've already recommended this, but on a second listening I like it even more. Dudamel's Beethoven 3 with the Venezuela orchestra. It has everything you'd expect from a first-class international orchestra PLUS an inner enthusiasm an... | |
| Companies that repair/refinish speaker cabinets? Antique restoration company. They're used to dealing with delicate materials and high quality finishes. | |
| Why don't speaker mfg list amps and associated equip they use to " voice " their sound? Vandersteen, Audio Note, ATC, several *do* make amp components.For many reasons (including envy from all the other manufacturers) it would be a PR nightmare for, say, Focal or B&W or Wilson to name names. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Way back in the day, when the Penguin Classical Record Guide was riding high, Perahia and Pollini seemed to me to be represented on a lot of the same repertoire. Trying them both, I always preferred Perahia, because Pollini struck me as, yes, too... | |
| Raidho speakers..any interest ?? Yes! Wildly overpriced. Which is why their depreciation curve resembles a precipice. | |
| Stereophile complains it's readers are too informed. Oh, sorry, my mistake. Dr Floyd Toole, after years of experiments in anechoic chambers is clearly wrong, kenjit bicycle-enthusiast and perhaps of Bromley is clearly right. | |
| Footers under my speakers double the perceived value of my speakers! There are so many possibilities.If you have a suspended floor with standard joists, OSB, underlayment and carpet, and then put an offcut of granite on top of that, should be speaker be "spiked" to the granite, with just the points touching? Isoac... | |
| Pass choice: INT250 vs X350.8 + He9 350W into 8, 700 into 4, shipping weight 145 lbs.Do you really need anything like all that power for the Yamahas?Someone posted the impedance curve measurement for them in one of your other threads, but I can't find it now. | |
| JBL 4367 shoutiness remedies? A lot of people apply that automobile acoustic deadening material to the back side of horns (Klipsch). Would that work here to ameliorate the problem?BTW, Primare is good quality and that was dreadful, entirely self-serving advice from the store. |