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| What is the best way to tame a slightly bright speaker? I would strongly advise against any kind of messing around with crossover values. Any speaker worth its salt (certainly something as high-end as the TAD) has a network precisely tuned for attenuation, corner frequency and phase alignment in the co... | |
| Dynaudio Special Forty vs. Contour 20 Hi @cortes - thanks for the kind words about the blog, always happy to hear if it's useful at all. I've fallen a bit behind on reviews the last few months (day job keeping me busy) but try to keep up with more regular updates on my Instagram/Faceb... | |
| Clean Power without the drawbacks of Conditioning Filtering. Advice? My esteemed colleague Marty DeWulf has a review of the Furutech e-TP80 power strip that I've been remiss publishing. He reviewed the hopped-up version ($2k), but the standard model starts around $800. He said it is superb and does no damage whatso... | |
| Best bookshelf speakers BTW I think it's good to go to stores and listen to a lot of offerings from a lot of mainstream manufacturers but I do not subscribe to the notion that big corporations = big R&D budgets = better speakers - quite the opposite in my experience.... | |
| Best bookshelf speakers Caveat that I can't say what is "best" and I haven't heard many of the suggestions given here, but I can heartily recommend the Silverline Minuet Grand. It is fantastic, particularly for acoustic music (I'm a primarily classical listener, some jaz... | |
| Curious what people think is the best "value" high end speaker (~5K to 15K) At CAF today I heard the TAD ME1 speakers and they were incredible.@lancelock what were they using to drive them? I’ve heard the TADs a couple times but I don’t think they had the right gear, the sound was very dry. | |
| Curious what people think is the best "value" high end speaker (~5K to 15K) This is getting interesting. A speaker company [B&W] with a long tradition of building really esteemed products gets more than just one "not my kind" response on this thread. Again, no haters but just not impressed ones. I thought I was the on... | |
| Curious what people think is the best "value" high end speaker (~5K to 15K) Ah I missed how big the room is. Legacy speakers move a lot of air and are great values, but their character (big and a bit forward) isn’t for everyone. Since everyone is already beating up on them, much preferable to B&W. :) | |
| Curious what people think is the best "value" high end speaker (~5K to 15K) Silverline SR17 Supreme ($7500 new). It’s been a long time coming but review forthcoming. Competitive with (and IMO often better than) most of what I heard at RMAF up to $20k or so. If you like the 2-way monitor form factor, new Sonus Faber Elec... | |
| In search for speakers of "natural" sound Silverline SR17 Supreme (USD $7500). I'll have a review coming out imminently, but I believe this is one of the premiere speakers < $10k for reproducing acoustic music. Not the best at electronic/harder music, but great for e.g. classical and j... | |
| The Truth about Modern Class D I suspect one reason for the vastly different takes on Class D is a matter of physiology. People's HF perception vary dramatically, and something irritating to one person may not register much for another. This is particularly true w.r.t. gender -... | |
| BEST INTERCONNECT FOR $25 EACH? @terry9 Canare Star Quad (L-4E6S) has never used Teflon. It's always been polyethylene dielectric AFAIK, certainly for the last 15+ years.Also I'm not sure why you need a fume hood for soldering teflon - if anything, teflon can withstand far highe... | |
| Finally took the Bryston 4B Cubed plunge Just got my new speaker in, Audiovector SR 1 Avantgarde Arreté. Ruthlessly revealing 2-way monitor. The Bryston sounds very, very good with it, better than my Ayre AX7e. The speaker is one of those small not-that-efficient (87.5dB) monitors that i... | |
| Has anyone tried the Audience Forte F3 power cord? BTW the "brightness" of the Forte is relative to the ultra-smooth powerChord, or a Cardas cord. It's definitely much less bright than the Pangea. | |
| Has anyone tried the Audience Forte F3 power cord? @maxima95 who knows about the $1200 cord, but I don’t think it matters all that much. Price-quality correlation is largely a crapshoot with these things. :) If it’s a highly-regarded cable that many people can vouch for, that’s a different matter.... |