twoleftears
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| Classical Music for Aficionados For even more modern but oh-so-listenable music, with more than a hint of Part, try this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9PXxOxVoyY | |
| Cheap Speaker "Isolation" Solution for 300 lb. Speaker Here's another interesting product. Anyone tried them? The largest version can support over 300lbs.http://avroomservice.com/evp-2/ | |
| On the long wall or short wall- Speaker set-up I recommend you experiment, if you can, with an angled/diagonal placement, that's neither parallel to either wall. You can mitigate a lot of room modes in this way. | |
| Cheap Speaker "Isolation" Solution for 300 lb. Speaker Squash balls! They're small, unobtrusive, and best of all, they come in four levels of hardness/springiness--blue, red, yellow, and double dot yellow. | |
| Cheap Speaker "Isolation" Solution for 300 lb. Speaker Gaia's now also come in "Titan" size for speaker-owners like the OP. | |
| DIY speaker isolation base for a wood floor Here's some design inspiration for you.https://d3h6k4kfl8m9p0.cloudfront.net/stories/QGqBYd-jLxsDXnvcPHIHCA.jpg | |
| Cheap Speaker "Isolation" Solution for 300 lb. Speaker Herbies, or something along these lines: https://vibrasystems.com/cork-neoprene-pad.html | |
| Upgrading a CD/SACD player with integral DAC @skyscraperVarious issues here. I haven't heard any R2R DACs. My overall impression is that they tend to be more in the warm/forgiving camp. Often they incorporate tubes, though some must be SS. Although they're a subset of all DACs, there are ... | |
| Upgrading a CD/SACD player with integral DAC @skyscraper See the very end of this thread:https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/new-or-old-cd-player/post?highlight=consonance%2Bhegel&postid=1542969#1542969 The Hegel is based on a much older Consonance design, manufactured in the same Ch... | |
| Difference in sound between copper and silver digital cables? Reminder: this thread is about *digital* cables.Why aren't we discussing the relative merits of glass vs. polymer in optical cables?https://pslc.ws/macrog/fiberopt/of.htm | |
| Desktop speaker upgrade from KEF LS50s (<$6K budget) Harbeths are designed to be used with the front grilles left on. | |
| Revisiting some music from the past ... @jim204 If you can find it streaming somewhere, please give a listen to Dobrinka Tabakova, "String Paths", on ECM. You might be pleasantly surprised. | |
| Best Sounding Bruckner Recordings There's an extensive review of the Blu-ray issue in the most recent number of Absolute Sound, which doesn't seem to be available on-line. It's very positive. | |
| Moving cables around killed dynamics for days anyone else experience this? Yup. You just experienced settling.The unresolved question is what you would have heard from the new arrangement if you'd left it that way for 4-5 days. | |
| Best Tchaikovsky’s 6th Symphony Recording You haven't lived if you haven't heard the Currentzis, but I wouldn't want to have it as my sole or "canonical" representation of the symphony. |