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| Wanting to get back into the hobby and want to start with the speakers. You do have the option of posting photos of your rooms herehttps://systems.audiogon.com/ | |
| Magico vs the world When I was demoing gear in the Magico A3 price range#1 Yamaha NS5000 #2 Paradigm Persona 5F (and 3F)#3 Vivid Kaya 90 (interested in the cheaper Kaya 45 but no demo available)#4 Magico A3The 3 speakers I liked more sounded more coherent across th... | |
| A real "wake up call" available to most....High End Audio vs. Mainstream...... Glad to see that people on Craigslist are listening to the tunes. The gear does not really matter relative to the importance of music. | |
| Can anyone recommend an FM Receiver that would play into a relatively high end system? +1 on XDRguy His modified Sony Tuner is very good. For the price it is incredible. https://www.xdrguy.com/ I listen to the same station, which has 2 broadcasts channels. One on FM and the second on HD radio. I listen to the FM on my Magnum Dyna... | |
| RIP Eddie Van Halen. What was your first stereo you rocked to VH on? Great info about the tunes in this article.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/arts/music/eddie-van-halen-songs.html?action=click&module=Rel... | |
| Baby Proof Floorstanding Speakers I am in the same boat as you. My son though was huge for a 2,3, 4 year old and with a running start I think can knock down most floor standers. Between the ages of 2 and 3 my boy just wanted to run and sort of body check things. When he hit 4 his ... | |
| RIP Eddie Van Halen. What was your first stereo you rocked to VH on? @decooney Brilliant interview. | |
| Versatile, non-fatiguing speakers for a small room under $1500 used or new: advice needed! Room treatments do little to address modal problems in a small room. I tried. Minimal benefits. And do you really want to fill a small room with 10inch ugly looking panels? In my experience this statement is 100% wrong for my system and room. I... | |
| Beating a dead horse.... SACD I recently got my Vacuum State moded Sony SCD-1 out of storage and back into my system. I have to say it is a pleasant surprise after all these years. I am also enjoying the slower pace of selecting a disc and playing it on the SCD-1. A nice chan... | |
| Versatile, non-fatiguing speakers for a small room under $1500 used or new: advice needed! Room treatments first. I have the same sized room, though I took out a closet door to add a bit more volume. GIK Acoustics did my room treatments for $700.My KEF LS50’s needed the room treatments before they sounded great. It was a massive differe... | |
| Best 40 to 50k used speakers @thieliste FYI on Alsyvox - https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649661765-alsyvox-tintorettos/ (though a dealer ad)My second fav speaker is the Thiel CS3.7, which you seem to be moving away from. What an incredible sounding speaker.My favorite is ... | |
| Timbernation I bought a custom sized stand last month. Very happy with it. | |
| Looking for a desktop power amp I had the Parasound A23 with Benchmark DAC1 and KEF LS50s on a desktop setup. The Parasound is a warm sound and it was OK. I have not heard the new Parasound zampV3 but it is $300 and supposed to be pretty good. https://www.parasound.com/zamp-v3.... | |
| Paradigm Persona series The Blade + Meta is what I am looking at when I get the large living room for music. We will have to wait for the Blade + Meta future release. Covaid also needs to be managed so my kid goes back to school and I can use the living room (his playroo... | |
| Best streamer given my constraints Keep your computer and add a Sonore Rendu. The opticalRendu’s are the best ones but a bit more complicated. The microRendu (what I use) is a breeze to setup and sounds very good. Much better than direct from your computer to the DAC.These are digi... |