twoleftears
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Best sounding CD player @dvdgreco https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/luxman-d-10x-cd-sacd-player-and-dac/ | |
Magnepan LRS in the house! RJS Accoustics makes a couple of modestly sized subwoofer units (pairs) that go especially well with LRS+. Check them out here: RJS Acoustics | For The Passion Of Sound Reproduction | |
Best sounding CD player Luxman "u" is the previous generation,in the 8, 6, and 5 versions. "x" is the current generation. Currently only the 10 and the 3. Surprised to find the "u"'s still listed on the Luxman website. They will be discontinued. I gather that the in... | |
Best sounding CD player Luxman, or Marantz, or Esoteric. Some of these will allow you to access their DAC (digital "in") so that you can hook a streamer up to them. | |
Small Footprint SS Power Amps AGD Tempo di Gan gets you there. If you can accommodate really small monoblocks, I endorse Van Alstine M225's. | |
Magico Titan 15 $32,000 active subwoofer overview You can get a pair of Wilson LoKe's for a measly $17,500. | |
Diagnosing inadequate bass in an audio system. There are test discs with consecutive tracks with different test tone frequencies that go all the way down to 20Hz. Get one and see where you start to detect a falloff in output. More scientifically, you could see how they do with a SPL meter. ... | |
Pass Then vs. Pass Now @jjss49 What's the lowest-powered Pass you've used to drive (successfully) a Harbeth 40.x? | |
Speaker upgrade if you liked Tyler then there are these: T2 Floorstanders – tyleracoustics.com which are supposed to be (by some margin) the best speakers that Tyler had produced to date. Dannie Ritchie and GR Research had a major hand in them. | |
Spatial X5 speakers There appears to have been a major culling of models at Spatial, leaving just two currently available, the M4 and the X4, both in their "Ultra" version, whatever that denotes. Part of it may be parts availability, and I suppose also possibly cust... | |
Speaker upgrade Have you considered open baffle speakers? They're not box speakers and they're not horns. Take a look here at two models: M4 Ultra | Spatial Audio Lab X4 Ultra | Spatial Audio Lab | |
To pricey How many takeovers, buyouts, etc. etc. has B&W been subject to since they were actually Bowers & Wilkins down in deepest Sussex? Who owns them now? Whatever you think of them nowadays, for the list price of any of their models it would b... | |
Cost effective power cables recommendations, low and high power In light of your screenname, I suggest going here, and reading about which models are recommended for what types of components. Power Cords | Triode Wire Labs | |
Dust Settled Consensus- is the Benchmark AHB2 an Audiophile Amplifier? There was a guy over on WhatsBestForum driving his 40.2's with a bridged pair of AHB2's. He thought this was the best combination. | |
Cabling Recommendations It's amazing to see how many uses a wire hanger has. |