twoleftears
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| Open Baffle vs Box Spatial's latest and greatest are the X5 and X3 (larger). X3 has a powered woofer with extension claimed to 25Hz.I heard one of the M series (I think) at CAF and, personally, didn't like the presentation, but it might have been the small and prett... | |
| upgrade from Devore Nines Clearly, the Gibbon line and the Orangutan line exist for a reason (or two reasons). Also, the O/96 is supposed to sound a good deal better than the O/93, so the question is: which models in which lines should be compared head-to-head. | |
| Cconfused... Accurate is as precise and unchanged as possible playback of what the mikes picked up and got recorded. Realistic is feeling like you might have been there, live. Unfortunately, the two often don't coincide, for reasons already discussed above. | |
| I gre out of Be Tweeters Salk uses a SB Acoustics Satori.Only on one of the steeliest examples of recordings of massed violins did I hear some glare/shrillness.Fritz uses Transducer Labs.That sounded the best to me of the ones I've heard. | |
| Problem with Marantz SR7012? a refurbished SR7012 from A4L There's your answer. | |
| What are the current "speaker trends" in your opinions? Kenjit | |
| Best Tubes on Market today? Sophia Electric blue. | |
| I gre out of Be Tweeters The AMTs in Alta Audio speakers don't call overly attention to themselves. I wonder what brand he's using. | |
| New to classical music Surely Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto no. 1. The other warhorses: Schumann and Grieg piano concertos.Then some Wagner overtures and orchestral arrangements of excerpts. | |
| Wharfedale Linton Heritage 85th Anniversary With their standard 3-way T-M-W configuration, the Lintons are not really directly comparable to Harbeths or Spendors that are more expensive, but not too many orders so, as those Harbeths and Spendors will be 2-way designs or super-tweeter/tweete... | |
| A civil discussion about the state of Audio Research Sometimes I lie awake at night sobbing, thinking about those multi-national corporations that have not managed to squeeze the very last drop of profit out of their latest acquisition. | |
| What just happened to accepting Paypal?? looks like they are trying to drive us away This seems like another data-grab by Paypal. Do you have to enter extra information when you sign up for a Business Account? | |
| Contemplating DEVORE SPEAKERS (and others)....LONG audition report of many speakers @allangaard My current speakers are PMC Twenty/24's. I went through an extensive search before getting them, and I like them a lot, though I am nonetheless getting a bit antsy again. When auditioning them, I also heard a similarly sized model i... | |
| Any monitors clearly better than Pulsars? What about the Ryan S610?It's a pity Ryan is not more mentioned and doesn't have/get more visibility. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Yet another absolute winner from ACRONYM, this time music from the rather obscure 17C Polish/German composer Pezel, his 24 "alphabet sonatas" for a larger than usual string band with continue. Superb playing and recording. If cottage industry op... |