twoleftears
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| Ultimate Integrated amps But consider the savings of $27K on interconnects. | |
| Night and day speaker connection If nothing else, it doubles your awg, and gets you nearer to the ideal of battery connector leads. | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? I was actually referring to the "I think we are adults here" comment (should have quoted), but this works too.Melanesian misanthrope alert! | |
| Night and day speaker connection If your speaker binding posts accept spade and banana, you could one of each on the terminations. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Has anyone sampled Andreas Staier's "period" performances of the late sonatas? I was reading somewhere (where?) a modern pianist say that Schubert phrasing was difficult, because the compositions were conceived for the limitations (and advantages... | |
| Ultimate Integrated amps Yup. Any integrated over 80 lbs hits the sweat spot. | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? Yup. That's one of the wildest claims I've heard this side of gk. | |
| 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... |