twoleftears
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| Cary Audio SLI-80HS vs Primaluna Dialogue HP or Evo Integrated Amps Didn't Herb just review the Cary for Stereophile? Search out the review--I seem to remember it includes some comparisons. | |
| Creek CD50 The CD50 is a very solid performer. If this fits your needs I would snap it up. | |
| Beware: New (at least to me) scam being run on Audiogon members +1 @elizabeth Q: When is a coincidence not a coincidence?A: When it's too good to be true.These skeptics wouldn't be so skeptical if they had lost, or even nearly lost, $$. | |
| Bright High End Speakers = Bad Room? It all come down to enjoyment. Even if you sit there thinking to yourself, Wow, these speakers are really accurate, how wonderful!, if you cringe and shudder even time the massed violins come in forte, then there's not much point to it, is there?... | |
| April 2017 review of the Paradigm Persona 9H A home run for Paradigm! A long time ago I owned Thiel 2.3's for less than a year, then was seduced into getting the 3.6's by a generous trade-up policy and the quest for more bass. Biggest single hi-fi mistake I've ever made (and I've made several). The 3.6's drove me ... | |
| Why do Classical CDs sound less Alive/Real/Present ? Whether the recording is attention-deficit or dire-digital is beside the point.1. Listen to any recording of solo classical piano2. Listen to any recording of a string quartet.3. Listen to any recording of a Mahler symphony.Which of these sounds m... | |
| Niagra 7000 hum Niagara or Viagra? Search this forum for at least one long thread on this exact topic? | |
| need recommendations for standmount speakers Fritz Carrera features an under-control beryllium tweeter. Might be up your alley. | |
| Paradigm Personas: A First Listen Come on @urbie19! You're giving the rest of us who aren't too enthusiastic about those Paradigm models a bad name. The level of your rancor would suggest that a Persona had run over your dog or absconded with your wife... | |
| April 2017 review of the Paradigm Persona 9H A home run for Paradigm! @ctsooner is entirely correct. Imagine the attitude most companies would take to the reviewer who panned their product, and to the mag that published it. Are they going to be queuing up to lend other $$$ units for them to review? Likewise other... | |
| Why do Classical CDs sound less Alive/Real/Present ? These all represent small variations or bandaids.I stand by my original response.I have long answered that a large symphony orchestra in full hue and cry is the hardest kind of recorded music to get to sound anything like the real thing in a typic... | |
| NUPRIME EVOLUTION ONE-BEST CLASS D AMP ON THE MARKET Just for a break, could we argue about Class G for a while instead? | |
| Why do Classical CDs sound less Alive/Real/Present ? Yes, I believe your answer is essentially correct.What other kinds of recording do we have involving eighty various instruments in a large hall space? I bet recordings of classical chamber groups and soloists (e.g. piano) sound better to you. | |
| Help with hookup It's getting to the point when you really need to try to borrow from someone or somewhere a power amp, to swop into the system. If it works with the replacement, then the guilty party is likely the power amp you have; if it still doesn't work, th... | |
| New Preamp arrived.... Tube-rolling seems like a cheaper alternative to changing speakers. NOS Mullards are often cited in this kind of context, I'm sure there are others. |