twoleftears
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| Need advice If you could find a used pair of Proac DT8’s that would be ideal, but you might get away with one of the incarnations of the Vandersteen 2 model (buy the most modern version you can afford). | |
| Amplifier Hum - Only Amp Connected Is there any mechanical low buzz/hum emanating from the amp itself, or is it quiet and hum coming purely from the speakers?It's possible you may have a DC offset issue, or your amp may have an intrinsic transformer hum. This may be curable by tig... | |
| Which way do I lean... You'll definitely get some strange dispersion patterns, though it could work.As the Watkins are the clear choice among those 3, why not just get them?P.S. have you looked at Fritz speakers? And Buchardt? | |
| Krell KAS amplifier hum You could try the Ebtech HumX, but you might need two. | |
| Need advice Are you prepared to buy used, or does it have to be new?If you could find some kind of demo discount deal on the Lintons mentioned above, that would be great. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados No love for Bernstein?For a real contrast, you can hear Gershwin himself playing it on "The Essential George Gershwin". | |
| Eh hem!...Subwoofers... What do ya know? How do we feel about the statements and claims made here?https://www.audioholics.com/loudspeaker-design/10-nonsense-myths | |
| 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. |