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| 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... | |
| Linn Akubarik Exakt with AK EXT DSM My condolences for your loss.The following dealer in S. Cal. is a huge Linn dealer. You may get some helpful advice from them. I heard the top end Linn system there earlier in the year. I would call instead of emailing.http://www.shelleysstereo.co... | |
| Paradigm Persona series @steve59 Congrats that is a great speaker. You 360 amp is one that I have heard a few times and liked somewhat with the KEF Blade. However, I have heard the Persona 5F with an amp that sounds a bit like the Hegel 360, the neutral SimAudio 860A. I ... | |
| Pre Amp comparisons Benchmark LA4 is reference class if you do not want to hear the preamp. I do not want to hear a preamp. There is a 30 day free trial offer to do a head-to-head comparison with anything else you have in the house. | |
| Hegel H390 or NAD M33 for Bowers and Wilkins 802D2 speakers? I was always suggesting to people to get the Hegel 390 last 2 years. However, today I would likely get the NAD M33 based on the Purifi module and that it should sound like the Benchmark AHB2. Both are super quiet, which has become a very high prio... | |
| Lifetime Roon is a go - alternative to Roon Nucleus Why is a ROON Nucleus better than a generic ROON headless server? ROON themselves have stated that you do not need a perfect machine for the headless server.In the last 3 weeks I installed the ROON server on a 24 Core + 96GB RAM server. Anothe... | |
| KEF LS50 - Question I wonder what type of speakers people who hate the LS50's like? | |
| Yamaha NS 5000 http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/yamaha-c-5000-preamplifier-m-5000-power-amp-ns-5000-loudspe... | |
| Cables for Audio Mirror Tubadour III I recently looked at the ROON DSP settings and did not try it for too long since it was for Audeze. However, now that you mention it for Focal. I will check it out. Though I must say I like the way the headphone sounds in the current ROON configu... | |
| Cables for Audio Mirror Tubadour III @arafiq I had to look up IIRC, I do have the Empy. My frame of reference is the Empy and a Sennheiser 600 10 years ago. So not much experience with headphones. I bough the Empy because a dealer told me to get that instead of the Focal Utopia whic... |