twoleftears
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| Your most disappointing purchase or audition? @jafox Yes. Me too. Thiel 3.6. Made the mistake of availing myself of the trade-up program from a 2.3? 2.4? The 2.X were OK, the 3.6 proved, over the medium, nigh on unlistenable. Local dealer finally rescued me with ProAc Response 2.5's. | |
| Recommendations Amp, DAC for Kef R900 @uncola Talk to this guy, https://www.mikepowellaudio.com/ he's the Kinki rep. in the U.S. | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio @nonoise + others. When the Lab12 Gordian achieves some wider market penetration, I think it may then be recognized as a true sleeper in the product category. | |
| Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday! All these different setting combinations seem to me like a cop-out on the part of the designer. Surely the goal is to design and manufacture a machine as faithful to the original signal as possible; one presumes one setting combination comes clos... | |
| Accuracy vs. Enjoyment Depends on what % of overly etched recordings are in your collection and in rotation. If your system is ruthlessly accurate and lots of your discs sound bad, where's the enjoyment in that? | |
| What is this speaker doing right? Look at all the nearly unanimous praise heaped on the LS50's. It's the epitome of what I've come to call the "modern sound". Some of us are coming to the conclusion that older models (or older designs) with a different design or design goals, so... | |
| Harbeth 40.2 OR Spendor Classic 100 OR ?? @riaa... Plain Jane. That was what was in the showroom. I like the extra "air" from positioning well away from boundaries, and doing that to the AN's just loses too much of the bass reinforcement. Plus I really don't need high sensitivity. Bu... | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio Lab12 has been around for a while, and is known in Europe. It's now got a couple of toes in the US market. Mainly tube gear, plus this DAC, plus a very interesting power conditioner that I was very seriously considering.It wouldn't surprise me i... | |
| David Lewis Audio--any customer experiences? It's just that I was looking on Google Maps, and some photos of the inside of the store showed up. Judging from them, the rooms looked rather too small to let largish floorstanders develop properly. | |
| Looking For 90% of the performane of the super expensive cables for much less money @geoffkait You missed Audio Sensibility. | |
| Another amateur in need of advice You're much more likely to damage a speaker by driving it with something truly underpowered than with something supposedly--according to the specs--overpowered.Call up Johnny Rutan at Audio Connection in NJ and talk to him about the Aria. | |
| Does hearing the best in high end audio make your opinions more valid? Oh no! What do Sonarquest plugs sound like? More like Wattgate or Furutech. Feeling anxious. | |
| Harbeth 40.2 OR Spendor Classic 100 OR ?? Thanks to all. With the Daedalus, I guess we're talking the Argos or the Ulysses, right? I've read about them but never been able to listen. They have quite a following on Audio Circle. I think I saw they were coming to the Capital AudioFest i... | |
| Best used speakers under $10000 As a current Twenty.24 owner, very interested to hear your impression of the Twenty5.26. | |
| Another amateur in need of advice The Belles Aria Integrated would be an excellent choice.Also the Vandersteen Ici's are $1350 new. There are considerable savings to be had in the used speaker market. |