wolf_garcia
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| Rega Brio R or Alex R for new Klipsch Heresy III's. I auditioned Heresy IIIs with a beautiful little Luxman M200 power amp that was amazing (I use a low powered tube amp so the sales dude thought this SS 25WPC amp would be similar to what I have). Not sure if these amps are still available but they... | |
| Advice for killer desktop speakers Last year I bought a set of Edifier R1700BT powered speakers for my daughter, and had never heard them until a later visit to her place in CO. I was amazed at how good the damn things are, and that's coming from an Audio Snob perspective. These th... | |
| Might try a tube preamp I’ve owned a LOT of preamps and I consider the Freya to be a neutral, very well designed and way underrated giant killer with performance and features absent from really any other preamps at any price, although I haven’t heard every other preamp i... | |
| LARGE speaker shipping options??? Buy a mini van near the shipping point, put the speakers in it, and have the van shipped to you by a car carrier service. When the van arrives take the speakers out (very important in this scenario) and immediately sell it, as nobody wants to be s... | |
| Neutral or Detailed. You can't have both My Klipsch Heresy IIIs sound very natural or neutral (or something) with the tube stuff I use to drive them. A couple of subs are in the mix...also I don't think my taste has allowed a tonally "colored" speaker anywhere near my earballs in a very ... | |
| Can a monitor sound like a floorstander?? I often wonder why some people have so much trouble with subs. I use 2 RELs (used one for years before finding another), bought inexpensively used, and they have level, phase, crossover, and input options. You turn it up, you turn it down, move it... | |
| I can not live without "Room Correction" My largish listening room treatment consists of things I own, including a smallish spinet style piano, furniture, books, an oriental carpet, collections of vinyl, CDs, and wax cylinders (actually no cylinders but I tossed them in anyway) and a tal... | |
| I can not live without "Room Correction" I can't live WITH a "digital nanny" as they strip the soul from music and hurl it on the floor like a broken dream. Otherwise, they're great. | |
| Is there actually a difference? Well designed tube amps can, and often do, display astonishing detail and generally more actual tonal accuracy (harmonic content is what music is) than most SS amps can hope for. No contest. | |
| In search for speakers of "natural" sound No speaker worth its salt (not sure what that means...but it stays) should be "music specific." From the Bad Plus to banjo, well designed speakers don't know what they're gonna do, shouldn't care, and should be able to do dynamic range as all musi... | |
| Why so few speakers have their price listed online Zu and Klipsch list prices also. | |
| Advice for killer desktop speakers Yeah man...the Wilsons are only 10 grand, but you do get 2 of them for that price. | |
| Help me pick from my sub-$1200 shortlist Silverline Preludes are outstanding and somewhat unique with a D'Appolito array of 2 3.75" woofers around a dome...all aluminum/magnesium (unique to Silverline), and they kick it. Skinny masterpiece tower speaker. I only replaced mine as I wanted ... | |
| klipsch speakers,be honest Are you being honest? Heh heh...By the way, my Heresy IIIs cost just under 1500 bucks shipped (list for these Capitol Editions is 2500), and I already owned the subs. I put stick-on Dynamat damping material on the mid horn due to intense peer pres... | |
| Total cost of ownership - how to reduce it Replacing tubes every couple of years is a negligible expense, as many great tubes aren't expensive, unless your amp has 14 tubes. Mine has 4. Besides, most tube amp owners enjoy trying different tubes and wind up with a collection of the things t... |