twoleftears
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| adante Cage match! White elephant vs. elephant in the room. | |
| ARC Ref 5se better than ML #28? "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink."More or less...if you are emotionally attached to the ML and are kind of reluctant to make the change, you probably won't, and even if you do, you may be subconsciously biased against th... | |
| What are some of the most underrated and overrated loudspeakers you’ve auditioned? There's a strong, though not absolute, correlation between being overrated and the size of the publicity budget the company is devoting to promoting its speakers (e.g. B&W, Focal, etc. etc.).And the corollary is true also: Fritz, Salk, Daedalu... | |
| How thick should the front baffle of speakers be? Mmmmmmm… g-r-a-v-y. It sounds delicious... | |
| How thick should the front baffle of speakers be? The only reason small woofers proliferate these days is that designers can orient them front-facing and still make the cabinets slim, and hence decorator- and spouse-friendly. I've heard multiple small woofers in speakers vs. a 12", and preferred ... | |
| Impact of phase inversion by preamp Isn't there a difference between phase and polarity? What do these switches on preamps do vs. swapping the leads on one end of the speaker cables? | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados After being blown away by the first disc I heard by ACRONYM, of Bertali's sonatas, I immediately ordered some more of their recordings, and the first in, of Valentini (entitled Oddities and Trifles) in no way disappoints. This is lively, exuberan... | |
| How thick should the front baffle of speakers be? Huge mono speakers used to be mounted in walls. When people started making sealed boxes, any half-competent carpenter could whip up an enclosure. Many speaker companies originated in garages. Wood, mdf, etc., remains easily to work with, so lon... | |
| I'm thinking about purchasing a Luxman D-08 SACD/CD Player Besides the 05u, 06u and 08u, there are also the D-380 and the D-N150, which are newer and in a different series. They are listed as "new" on the Luxman website. I doubt that these are being discontinued. | |
| My Triad of Integrateds The Aria exists in three incarnations.Integrated.Preamp + stereo amp.Preamp + monoblocks.Each level offers excellent value. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados The next high point: Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli's sonatas, performed by Andrew Manze and Richard Egarr. Extraordinary music, vigorously rendered. It is understandable how influential it was in the later 17C. | |
| Bookshelf Bake Off if you want to stay closer to budget, I think the Fritz Carbon 7's may be the ones to try. | |
| Paradigm Persona series @prof Excellent description! Aligns exactly with what I heard/how I felt when auditioning the 5's.Also, though to a lesser extent, applicable to my impression of the Dynaudio Contour 60. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Here's another CD I really have to recommend. I don't know if it's available over streaming, as it appears to be one those more cottage-industry, limited edition, independent types of production.It's titled Phantasia Musica. Violin Music of the 1... | |
| Affordable SET's with 211 or 300B tubes, (2000 dolllars maximum) Dennis Had Inspire Fire-Bottle. |