zd542
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| Is high-end audio dying, if not dead already??? The point I was trying to make is that there is a wide variety of places to deal with. Some suck, but there are some very good ones, as well. I wanted some examples just to see what type of retailer/brands you were dealing with. Quite often, manuf... | |
| Pass x250.8 vs Boulder 850 vs Spectral DMA250 "08-19-14: Maz65@Bo1972 It is not a mistery that Franco Serblin (r.i.p.) tested its own products, in the first instance, with Spectral, his personal setup, and (maybe not confirmed) Krell stuff."Speaker manufacturers test their speakers with a lot... | |
| New Set Up questions "I keep hearing that about the AR3's so it must be the case. I only sometimes read that someone loves them with a 225, etc... I'll go with the consensus there and stick with the Heresy'sVruth (Threads | Answers | This Thread)"You'll soon learn the... | |
| Pass x250.8 vs Boulder 850 vs Spectral DMA250 "Here are just some that look to have bi-polar output transistors as they seem to come close to doubling wattage for every halving of load impedance from 8ohm 4ohm 2ohm.I dug these out of Stereophile's test results they seem to do the current need... | |
| Is high-end audio dying, if not dead already??? "I can't remember last time I bought anything of value at B&M that wasn't drop shipped. There's NO reason to stock anything except for demo/display units.The only differences between B&M and internet are physical location and ability to de... | |
| B&W MT-60D vs Paradigm MilleniaOne Home Theater Is the $3000 for the whole system or just the speakers? If you're only buying speakers, what equipment will you be using? | |
| New Set Up questions Why vintage gear over current offerings? | |
| full speaker system, thats close to rear and side How much can you spend on the new speakers? | |
| Focal or Paradigm? No, they do not sound the same. | |
| British Speakers vs All the Rest "Is this an inherent trait that mostly "british" made speakers possess?If so,have their counterparts caught up?"Reading through your post, I can tell you that there are so many different variables at play, I don't know where to begin to sort it al... | |
| Airplane trip with turntable... Didn't see that one coming. | |
| Is high-end audio dying, if not dead already??? Jaxwired, I think you read a little to far into my post."Two points you made that I don't agree with. First, I've been buying from internet dealers for a long time and you are wrong, no way do they have the same over head that a B&M store does... | |
| Is high-end audio dying, if not dead already??? "The internet buyers don't want to pay full retail and they should not have to since they get nothing for the markup from the dealer."That's not true. Just because a dealer sells a product on the internet doesn't mean there is no service provided.... | |
| B&W 800D vs 800 Diamond Rohsal,Sorry if I gave you the wrong impression. I thought you just wanted to know how to identify the speakers by model. I didn't mean for it to be an endorsement of any kind. I really don't care for B&W speakers at all. I'm not trying to tal... | |
| moving on from Emotiva UMC-200 pre/processor "08-17-14: AvgoroundWAIT WAIT WAAAAIIIITTT!!! You guys mean to tell me that an expensive hi end preamp inserted in between the All mighty Oppo sounds better than direct bypass to the amps from the Oppo analog outs??!!! NO WAY!!! How's this possibl... |