twoleftears
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| Class D amps seem poised to take over. Then what? Why does Class D attract these unsustainable blanket generalizations (e.g. @nseymour) while no one (well, virtually no one) would dream of making such universal claims w.r.t. class A or A/B? | |
| Will the placement of casters on speaker stands degrade the performance These are recommended for on-carpet applications, and will facilitate easy sliding around of the speakers.https://herbiesaudiolab.com/products/threaded-stud-glider?variant=12651505680439 Two different sizes, many thread pitches and thread lengths. | |
| Lack of popularity of Chord??? The DACs are pretty common.The amps, less so. | |
| Schiit CD Transport on the way soon. There's clearly stuff going on at Schitt with this second factory/center opening in Corpus Christi, and the Sol being put on indefinite hiatus. I imagine they're also affected by the issues with parts supply. People have been complaining about t... | |
| Is there a point of diminished returns with amps and Harbeth 30.1s? The amplifier thread on HUG (!) is interesting if only for the remarkably *wide* range of amps that owners are using with Harbeths.I think the company went over the edge in the issuing first of the Anniversary series and then the XD series, both o... | |
| Recording to test right and left channels... The first Stereophile test disk has left/right tracks, in-phase and out-of-phase tracks, and test tones descending into the deep bass. | |
| what would be the best speaker cable under 1k used or new to used with the 3.6 maggies Length need? Prices can vary significantly... | |
| Buying advice If you want to explore a possible "fix" that's really inexpensive, I would try a layer or two of felt applied around the tweeters, The outside shape doesn't matter too much, square, round, hexagonal, whatever, you just want an appropriately sized... | |
| warmest speaker cables you've heard? The previous generation of Cardas (that includes Golden Cross, and the other "Golden" models) is generally a little warmer than the current generation, as the prevailing taste was moving in that direction (more "neutral"). The Cardas Golden ICs a... | |
| Class D amps seem poised to take over. Then what? https://spec-corp.jp/ Don Better (audio store) carries the line. | |
| warmest speaker cables you've heard? Cables are components of a system; amps are also components of a system.Few people would object to describing a certain amp as warm or cool; so why this knee-jerk negative reaction to this kind of enquiry about cables? | |
| How do you know what your weakest link is? Acoustic treatment of your listening room. | |
| warmest speaker cables you've heard? Cardas Golden Cross on used market. | |
| Compatibility of Cary SLI-100 with ProAc? Magnepan? @river251 I think it's doubtful that you'll find your ideal amp that will drive Proac and Magnepan equally well.If you're keeping the Response 2.5's that's one thing, if you're changing over to Maggies that's entirely different.For many years, I... | |
| Isoacoustics overweight From their website: The GAIA model should be selected based on the weight that they are supporting. The weight limits we set are based on the performance curve. The GAIA perform well up to the specified weight limits, but once you are within 10% ... |