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| New Improved Fink Team Borg Episode 2 Speakers : End-Game Speakers ? To illustrate the absurdity of making unsupported claims, while suggesting that published reviews by serious reviewers are by definition useless (or worse), interested readers should take a few minutes to read Martin Colloms' review of the FinkTea... | |
| New Improved Fink Team Borg Episode 2 Speakers : End-Game Speakers ? Yeah, I'm sure that the AMT that you heard in the '70s were equivalent to the custom designed versions employed by Karl-Heinz Fink 50 years later. 🤣🤣 Then you – an anonymous internet poster – tell readers that you have, or have heard cheaper spe... | |
| Something Fishy with Brian Hoyer Sadly, he appears to be better than Jimmy Garopollo... 😂😂 | |
| What is your most fond musical memory. Because I got into Hi-Fi at a relatively early age, I didn't attend a lot of live concerts. But being from Chicago (well, Evanston), I have strong memories of seeing Al Jarreau live a couple of times at Blues clubs near Wrigley field. This was in ... | |
| CD Transport @chayro I have a CEC on the way. There are a lot of choices and very difficult to compare them side by side. I like the ergonomics of the unit and the fact that it is a time-tested design with US service A friend of mine had an upper level TL2... | |
| If the DAC is the same, how different do CD transports sound? I am not aware of any compelling explanations as to why this might be the case, but in my experience, top-loading transports which utilize weighted pucks on top of the CDs sound better than other designs. No confirmation bias involved in my obser... | |
| Harbeth 40.3 XD + Ton Trager First Impressions @macg19 Interesting! I see what you are saying, and while it may seem a bit counter-intuitive, given the "play" in speakers that are placed on that type of (damped spring) devices, the sound is cleaner, as vibrations that would otherwise pass th... | |
| The mistake armchair speaker snobs make too often "I’ve not measured the SS tweets, but the Mundorf AMTs have vanishing low distortion, energy storage and amazing dynamic range and much more forgiving of accidental overload than the average tweet." My current speakers (FinkTeam KIM) employ custo... | |
| Harbeth 40.3 XD + Ton Trager First Impressions @macg19 You are very welcome, and well done! 👍 I really wasn’t trying to push you into anything, but your open mind and perseverance have apparently paid off. And your relatively simple solution seems very clever! It’s interesting how systems ... | |
| Harbeth 40.3 XD + Ton Trager First Impressions For those interested, here is a link to a video of some relevant observations and measurements, comparing spikes and isolation bases. It was produced by the Swiss company Credo Audio. spikes vs. decoupling platforms Their conclusions are consist... | |
| Harbeth 40.3 XD + Ton Trager First Impressions To drill a bit deeper, I have listened to the 30.1s on the TTs both directly on the floor, and placed on Townshend platforms. The difference in sound is clear, but because some of the bass energy that is typically felt through the floor is lost, s... | |
| Harbeth 40.3 XD + Ton Trager First Impressions @macg19 What you seem to be reporting is that the TTs are much better at isolating the speakers than your home made ones, and that I don't doubt. But no, they don't decouple them, let alone "completely". And neither do spikes! In fact, spikes c... | |
| Harbeth 40.3 XD + Ton Trager First Impressions I owned a pair of TT stands with a pair of M30.1, and agree that they are excellent. However, this claim (above): Resonance dissipation and decoupling is achieved by the extended tenons and the tone-bed “dimple” in the tenons that decouples the ... | |
| New Improved Fink Team Borg Episode 2 Speakers : End-Game Speakers ? So this: Frequency response 32hz to 32khz +10 -10 DB. No thank you! is not equivalent to writing them off? 😂 As for the aesthetics, this may come as a surprise to you, but not everyone’s views will necessary align with your preferences! Fina... | |
| dacs that I have had in my system - a listing A remarkable list, @jjss49, and thanks for your various, thoughtful impressions. On the other end of the spectrum, I have owned a grand total of two DACs, despite having been 'in the game' for 40 years! The first was a Denafrips Pontus II, and, ... |