uncle_monkey
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| Guest suddenly takes it upon herself to move my speakers Hahaha, yeah I’ve had idiots move my speakers. My drunken ex had a bunch of drunken friends from her HS reunion over. There might have been around 50 or more people at the house. My listening room was upstairs, looking down on the great room kitch... | |
| Speakers Don’t Matter As Much As We Think They Do? I think the bad advice is to over-buy a speaker you can't drive adequately from the get-go. For instance, I've seen a lot of balking at the suggestion one spend $2k on power for a $500 pair of Elac Uni-Fi's. But there's nothing worse than a pai... | |
| Square living room--12x12 I assume you already have your equipment? Or are you buying based on the space? Right off hand, I’d say it really depends on whether the speakers are ported, and which way they’re ported. That will really dictate how close to the walls you can pla... | |
| Any reason not to place stand mounted speakers upside down? Agree it w/onhwy61 depends on the design.For example, you don’t want to turn a time aligned speaker on its head. But sometimes depending on your speaker height vs seating position it could be desirable. | |
| Thiel Owners I had settled on MIT back in the 90's when I was originally pushing my 2.2's with Adcom. Can't remember which/what, I did upgrade to a better MIT I was so impressed and had big gray boxes everywhere. I'd even tried out Cardas and Audioquest from f... | |
| New Place - What Would You Do? Sounds like a good time to upgrade you power supply. Hospital grade wall outlet (Furutech or Wattgate), perfect path contact enhancer (and a PPGate, if you’re flush enough)" , dedicated lines. That is what I’d do first if I was moving to a new hou... | |
| New Old Thiel CS6 Speakers--Too Harsh uncle_monkeyShould you decide to re-engage those Thiel speakers, join us, over on the Thiel Owners thread. I look forward in reading more about your musical tastes and system.Happy Listening!I did pop over there a few weeks back. I'm excited to... | |
| New Place - What Would You Do? Thanks for the thoughts! Yikes on the LPs! Nothing she'd do would surprise me. I have no idea about their state, my ex is a miserable human being and I wouldn't put anything past her. But I swear, if she did something like embed the LP's into ... | |
| New Old Thiel CS6 Speakers--Too Harsh Hi, sorry for the vanishing act - but I suddenly decided instead of downsizing into my townhome I’d sell it and move back to my big house. LOL! So, the Thiels might be coming out again. I’m facing however setting up on a floor plan that is NOT ste... | |
| Elac Debut Reference I just ordered a pair of the ELAC DBR-62 in black with the walnut from Audio Advice, a pair of Polk LSiM703 in Mt. Vernon Cherry from Adorama, and a pair of the Triangle Borea BR03 in black ash...3 very different approaches to speaker design on... | |
| What are your top three live concerts of all time? Oingo Boingo @ SDSUMan, Danny and crew were the sh*t, I saw them at least a dozen times from 1980 to the end. There's some great gigs listed above, I was at a few during these tours.I think we need a top 3 for each decade, and even that would be ... | |
| Thiel 3.6 or KEF 105/3 You don't mention the size of the room? It was a friend's pair of 105.4's that started me on the serious audio road in my early 20's. My speakers since the mid 90's have been Thiel 2.2's. Personally, I don't even see it as a contest. The technolo... | |
| Jerry Raskin's Needle Doctor Gone? That's really sad to hear, I wish him all the best. That's exactly my age - and I have friends who are facing similar issues. All I can say is F* cancer. Thanks all who chimed in - I got sidetracked myself, life comes at you much faster when you'r... | |
| Jerry Raskin's Needle Doctor Gone? Thanks, I tried a variety of search words, and finally found a statement from them 9/22, as well as mention on a couple of forums. It was instant, apparently. Makes sense it was a lot longer than I thought - my mother fell and broke a hip in Octob... | |
| Small room amp and speakers recommendation You haven't mentioned if you can get the speakers away from the walls or not. There's some great recommendations here, but some I'm not so sure about since you're not going to have much in the way of fudge factor. JBL and KEF are both good for nea... |