yyzsantabarbara
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| 15k USD Speakers for Classical and Pop Extended Listening, Near setup, Low volume If you are close by, go have a listen to this and compare with Magico, Vivid, KEF, Focal, Paradigm in the same price range or much higher. I have with the bigger NS5000. NS-3000 – Custom Home Automation Solution, Entertainment Systems (kennedy-hi... | |
| 15k USD Speakers for Classical and Pop Extended Listening, Near setup, Low volume @akg_ca Are you speaking from experience? of doing this in a small room. If not then you need to understand the issues of a desk, monitors, and others reflecting in front of you. That will be worse than elevator music. @ilikeclassical I gave you ... | |
| 15k USD Speakers for Classical and Pop Extended Listening, Near setup, Low volume The KEF Reference 1 was a speaker I was considering. However, I upgraded my KEF LS50 to the KEF LS50 Meta and heard a big improvement. Contrary to what I read online about it being a minor improvement. I have really good gear and could hear the di... | |
| 15k USD Speakers for Classical and Pop Extended Listening, Near setup, Low volume @grislybutter So you were underwhelmed when you heard a speaker behind you? Total opposite of how I hear my office system. | |
| 15k USD Speakers for Classical and Pop Extended Listening, Near setup, Low volume A floor stander like the Paradigm Personal 3F with a super warm amp. Something along those line. I may have misspoken when I said a floor stander could work great. I was assuming the clear listening space was 13 x 21. I now think that is your over... | |
| 15k USD Speakers for Classical and Pop Extended Listening, Near setup, Low volume I am from Toronto (yyz) but now live in Santa Barbara, CA. There is a great CODA dealer out of Winnipeg I forgot the guy’s name. Doug at Coda can give you the dealer info for Canada. Your room is much better than mine for audio. Whatever, you put... | |
| 15k USD Speakers for Classical and Pop Extended Listening, Near setup, Low volume My friend Danny who knows more about audio that I ever will recently came over to listen to my other system. He listened to my office system too. He was blown away by the LRS+ and said why would you need anything else in a small room such as mine.... | |
| Handling Heavy Amps The second AHB2 will give you more volume on your speakers. On my NS5000 speaker my stereo AHB2 is about 90% of max volume for about 70-80 dB. I like to use the lowest gain setting on the amp. The middle gain setting does get you a bit more granu... | |
| 15k USD Speakers for Classical and Pop Extended Listening, Near setup, Low volume A better approach would be to put the speaker behind you so that the desk is not a big reflective surface. If you do not want to do that then some small monitors on the desktop (preferably with some DSP) would be choice #2 for me. Office System |... | |
| Handling Heavy Amps The AHB2 will sound different than both of the Bryston 4B3 and Accuphase. I am not a huge Bryston fan anymore, but I would take a 4B3 over a single AHB2 on the Harbeth. I would take 2 AHB2 over the 4B3. The Accuphase and Harbeth would not work fr... | |
| Magnepan LRS+ which amps do you use ? * 100 watts or less ** I used the GAN400 2x with the LRS+. It is great for the $1k used I paid both times. | |
| What DAC/HA/Streamer should I audition at Axpona in April? Dealer comments welcome, too. CanJam NYC 2024 Part 1 - Headphone Guru Nice photo of the Benchmark HPA4. | |
| What DAC/HA/Streamer should I audition at Axpona in April? Dealer comments welcome, too. The Matrix Mini-iPro 4 solves the streamer and DAC problem. It also has a headphone out. You would just need get an amp. I have a Benchmark DAC3B (same as the HGC) and the Matrix is not bad in comparison. I had the prior iPro 3. Matrix Mini-i Pro... | |
| Magnepan LRS+ which amps do you use ? * 100 watts or less ** I ended up not following my advice and put the mostly Class A CODA #16 on the LRS+. It is definitely the best the LRS+ has sounded. The LRS+ can really use the power and current. My Sanders Magtech (Magnepan + Tech) was great on the LRS+ at 500 | ... | |
| Overkill for small room Putting a speaker into a small room is not easy. The issues of amp and other gear are minor compared to the speaker and room interactions. I learned this the hard way. |