twoleftears
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| Critique my setup You can do much better than Venere's for similar price. | |
| Thoughts on my Sim Moon 260D CD player There’s also this: Nuprime CDT-8. About to be released. | |
| TRANSPORTER??? How about the 203?CD transport ~ LP turntable.Many transports have the DAC in the same box=CD player, whereas very few turntables have the phono amp built in (but a few inexpensive ones do).The phono amp is usually either stand-alone or in the pre... | |
| ELAC - Adante... what’s the verdict? Views towards the end are quite interesting.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWWXH8yLEQI | |
| Where do I start-amp or speakers ? How many of us have actually started assembling a system from absolute zero--without a single component carried over, gifted, inherited, or whatever? In that rare case I'm going to say speakers, because (a) room size, speaker size and appearance,... | |
| ELAC - Adante... what’s the verdict? OK, so let's ditch the Elac and go back to thinking about some of the Ryan floorstanders as a possible alternative. | |
| Sister's wants music system without the hassles! @dekay No, I think "harto" captures also captures my sentiments to a T. | |
| Seeking Speaker Recommendations Take a look at the smaller models offered by Spatial Audio. | |
| iFi AC iPurifier Unit returned to Music Direct. On to the next trial of something else... | |
| Here to learn and more As I understand it, "strapping" often increases the lowest number of ohms that an amp is comfortable driving. I.e. a stereo amp drives 2 ohms, but a bridged version only does 4 and up.If your speakers are biwireable, why not try driving treble an... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Whole symphony: 2nd.Cherry-picked slow movements: 5th, 6th, 9th, 3rd.Least liked: 8th; second least-liked, 7th.Overall, I'll put in a vote for Sinopoli.Individual recordings:Kaplan 2 should be heardWelser-Most delicious 4 (I recommend the 4th as a... | |
| How expensive are best NOS tubes ? And how difficult to find ? Jim McShane is the fourth name that should go in that shortlist. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I've been hooked on Mahler for decades.The first set of LPs I got were by Solti, so to a large extent I learnt them all in his interpretation, and as we all know, teenagers are impressionable, and his way has become for me in many ways the right w... | |
| SYSTEM COMPLETE FINALLY! @calvinj If you're still reading this thread, you still have a problem. | |
| Initial Thoughts on Harbeth Super HL5 Plus So here's a classic example of YMMV.A couple of years ago, I heard that model driven by an expensive stack of Naim in a very solid (brick walled) listening room. Thanks to their reputation, I went in predisposed to really like them. But after se... |