twoleftears
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| Paradigm Persona 9H - hard to drive !? Keep the SET! I'm sure it's doing a heroic job of ameliorating the sound of the Personas. | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance Any way you slice it, Noel Lee has a lot to answer for. | |
| Another Music Direct Catalog observation It all comes down to economics.But there's no real analogy between the industrial military complex known as the music industry churning out mindless pabulum that is pre-designed to achieve hit status, vs. the bottom-line antics of figuring out to ... | |
| You've never heard a Moonlight Sonata like 'dis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb_TLU_M7PE&list=RDPx2FN_ft36c&index=4 Is that a baton in your hand, or are you just pleased to see me? | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Embarked on a Sibelius retrospective. 1, 2 and 4 so far. Really liked 1 and 2, 4 not so much. I don't know why I haven't thought more about this composer. From previous listenings I only remember 5 as a favorite. Perhaps now is the time to ch... | |
| Pairing NAD Masters & Harbeth [poss. SHL5+ or 40.2] Even more than with most audio topics, there's a real lack of consensus over what kind/power of amp pairs best with Harbeth, particularly SLH5 and 40.2. Take a look over, for instance, at the Harbeth User Group website, or other threads here.Seve... | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? Four: mismatch between the electrical parameters of your new cables and your existing equipment. Highly praised cables in certain systems will sound like crap.Can you leave your system playing 24 hrs/day, at a low level? With just a couple of ho... | |
| time-aligned speakers: stepped fronts vs. sloping fronts So many variables!So when listening to speakers with tweeters mounted on sloping baffles, perhaps best to start listening to them pointing directly at you; if not, you'll be hearing the tweeters doubly off-axis (which admittedly, may be still be t... | |
| Night and day speaker connection As mentioned, some loudspeaker cables can be wired/connected in internal biwire configuration, which effectively halves the awg going to each post. Connecting both leads to one post might be called internal shotgun.What remains to be seen is this... | |
| Help me select an integrated amp for Thiel CS3.6 speakers You're going to need maximum grunt and maximum warmth, which is not a combination found very often. I think that's where @lak was going. | |
| time-aligned speakers: stepped fronts vs. sloping fronts These musings were in part a response to a recent review of the NSMT model 100 speaker and a reply by the reviewer to a question I posed. He assured me he could hear no difference whatsoever when a felt mat was present or absent, a mat that sits ... | |
| Moving away from B&W CM10 speakers As a lover of warmer-than-average speakers, let me put in a strong endorsement for the VA Baby Grands. Several years ago, they were very close to the top of my short list (in fact, I was going to buy a pair, but missed them, as already sold). Th... | |
| Mattresses, not stereos is where the money is So latex=78s? Wax cylinders?? | |
| SACD or not Yes, let's remember the OP specified $1400 range. | |
| Hegel or Pathos? The presentation is going to be different. Stick with the Pathos, and if possible, get another one. |