twoleftears
Responses from twoleftears
| Why no “Break in” period? Harder to understand are these accounts of cables and AC receptacles that go on roller-coaster rides of sounding better, then worse, then better, then worse, then even better again. | |
| Whats the popular brand, most musical, digital cable now? What format? I'd look at Wireworld's range of cables. | |
| Need 20 - 25 foot spk cables. Neotech NES speaker cable. 3004/3003/3002/3001 Buy the best you can afford for the lengths needed. | |
| Banana Plugs too narrow Were they cryogenically treated? Extreme cold always makes them shrink. | |
| rookie questions about used Bryston BDPs Ask the same questions over at AudioCircle before you do anything. | |
| Why no “Break in” period? OK, let's look at this another way. Who turns on their Class A amp, immediately starts playing music and expects to hear optimal sound?While I don't go nearly as far down the road as @millercarbon, the initial response was perfectly reasonable: a... | |
| Perfect Path Technologies confusion What sort of QC measures do you have in place? Do you have an electron scanning microscope in the garage to check the nanoparticles? | |
| what happened to Golden Tube? Yes, I think the SE-40 was pretty much the anchor of their line-up. Just feeling nostalgic and wondering what happened. At their price point they were pretty highly thought of. | |
| New Old Thiel CS6 Speakers--Too Harsh Years and years ago I had Thiel 3.6's driven by Muse 175 high-current monoblocks. Eventually the hardness of the sound drove me into the arms of 300B SET amp + ProAcs.Obviously, lots of people love Thiels, so YMMV. BTW, I had 2.3's before, and w... | |
| Hidden Gems in Pre-Owned Solid State Power Amplifiers? Plinius, Belles, Krell of certain vintages. | |
| Why no “Break in” period? @millercarbon gave you the correct and accurate response. The rest of the thread is superfluous, with people using it to grind various axes. | |
| SEAS vs SB Acoustics Salk is using Satori woofers in the Song3 BeAT, Encore and SS 9.5 models. | |
| 2 1/2 way speaker? Normally, the two drivers are the same, but they cover different frequency ranges, as explained above, i.e. one of the two is rolled off earlier than the other. So it's not a true 3-way, and not a true 2-way. Hence.... | |
| Speaker Cable Blending 1. Wrong drinks. Get some new, more expensive ones; things will immediately sound better.2. Drinks insufficiently broken in. Allow to age some more. | |
| The midi range, not the tweeter, is the most important driver in a speaker. I’ve found I’ve almost always liked speakers using Scanspeak drivers.ProAc coaxed some serious bass from a driver not much bigger than a dedicated mid-range. |