twoleftears
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| How many NICE looking high end floor standing speaker are there at present Nice-looking speakers=triumph of style over substance.Ugly speakers just sound better. | |
| forum.audiogon.com Upgrade What we need is to be able to incorporate and display photos in posts.Then we could scroll down through acres of visuals to get to the next post. | |
| Sub 1k integrated? If you're patient, you should be able to pick up a decent integrated used at the 1K price point. Creek, Exposure, Belles Aria, would be names to look out for. | |
| Ported versus sealed speakers: is one type better? Transmission line is best when properly implemented. | |
| Need speaker cable +1 for the Audio Envy at that price point. | |
| Why don’t tube amps sound like tubes anymore? If you really enjoy warm and tubey, why shouldn't you be able to go out and buy a nice-sounding warm and tubey amp? It seems these days manufacturers (and to some extent, reviewers and magazines) want to dictate what listeners should be listening... | |
| Why don’t tube amps sound like tubes anymore? Many tube brands are designing their current amps to sound more like SS, precisely because many people criticized the typical older models for being, well, too "tubey". Proves you can't please all the people all the time. | |
| Audioquest or Kimber kable. OP I know you said you were looking at those brands as part of some kind of trade-in part-exchange deal, but you should really look at Audio Envy, as I think someone else has already suggested. | |
| What Do You Think . . . and How Does It Work? kenjit when did you *discuss* anything? All you do is opine. | |
| What's the best integrated amp in the $1500-$2000 range? Easy, Exposure.Though actually that would be the Belles Aria. | |
| Mitchum or Blackburn for the Mullard 6922? He's just a little north-west of Croydon, between the A23 and the A24. Where the best action movies are made. | |
| Covering a TV behind your speakers? You may be surprised to discover that the best improvement may not be made by covering/damping close to and directly in front of the TV screen, especially if the screen is not absolutely flush to the wall behind it. Invest in a couple of thesehtt... | |
| Harbeth 40.2 @karmapolice My plan is to have some custom stands made that are lower than any of the ones that are commercially available. | |
| Anybody have the Jamo C 97 MK II? What need is a pair of these. Jamo R 907.https://www.audiogon.com/listings/full-range-jamo-r907-red-2013-09-09-speakers-94303-east-palo-alto-ca | |
| CD Transports People like the Marantz HD-CD1 as a transport and it's a CDP. |