tomic601
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| Thiel Owners model 2 have just now with recent price increase caught up with inflation.....but my sense is both Jim T and Richard frugal engineers where cost and target price points are paid attention to.The Quattro is a stunning value and with carbon tweeter ... | |
| Who makes great active preamps ? Tube or solid state or hybrid. The new dual chassis VTL is superb+++ for Jim White at AesthetixARC always in the hunt, love my ref5sethe Backert is also hyper affordablesleeper in the USA but Brinkmann doing some great things....in a fire and forget SS the Ayre KX-R is pretty a... | |
| Thiel Owners a zoom 6 at $400 is hardy what i would call unlimited $$$$$a great learning tool, Has been for me anyway...have fun | |
| Thiel Owners yes Havens and Hardesty in SoCali met Curtis Havens in about 1988 in Tacoma where he set up shop as Advanced Audio. Curtis is an avid cold water surfer, retired. Sold Advanced to Definitive Audio of Seattle.Advanced is a Vandersteen, ARC, Magnapla... | |
| Tannoy gold 12" cabinets i think Nelson is hooked on the JBL Jubal, but who knows..stick w the Tannoy and your cabinet project..Islandman, Whidbey is lovely..stop by for a listen IF ya get down my way to Seattle sometime.....I have room for just about every loudspeaker fa... | |
| ModWright Oppo 105D Tubes To Chill Out 2kHz-8kHz but in the meantime, I will be listening to the second harmonic of key # 87...almost right at 8k | |
| ModWright Oppo 105D Tubes To Chill Out 2kHz-8kHz how did you hone in on 2-8 khz?i have only two trusted sources for tested tubes..Andy at Vintage Tube for non RussianRoger at RAM for everything...probably two of the most knowledgeable and reputable testers, backers and sellers. Roger in particul... | |
| Tight bass sub recommendations the real power of a fantastically executed sub is threefold...take the strain off the 80-100 hz and up driverspower correct the amp driving the variable EQ and Q ( duh ) suboptimize the high pass amp because it now nolonger deals with nasty back e... | |
| Tight bass sub recommendations color me fanboy but 2 built in subs and 11 bands of analog and variable Q and I have killer audiophile bass right at my listening position....and ha, IF I want to add two more I can....and the transfer function function of my main amp shapes the w... | |
| Speaker wiring question not truereflected impedence is part of the magic of biwire...the tweeter and crossover have a high impedence at low frequencies, hence flow to wooferreverse that for woofer as it has higher impedence at higher frequency..so another way to think ab... | |
| Thinking about buying new speakers....the Elac Uni Fi5 towers or the Klipsch hersery lll polar opposites.....what has steered you to these two as choices so thus far ?sourceroomaverage l3vel you listenroom size...... | |
| Thiel Owners for those of you w access to live unamplified music consider your own experiments in the chain....for analog get a Revox A-77 and a couple of decent microphones....hint check out the excellent recordings made by the late ( RIP ) Charley Hansen of ... | |
| Thiel Owners flat frequency response is just part of the worktime domian, energy storage and release are also important....yes i am a Vandersteen fan for sure...but as I dial them into my room the 2.3 are quite goodi will remove the bottom larger access plate.... | |
| DAC recommendation with tube preamp Lampizator or Aesthetix...get the best model you can afford.....i have both a Pandora Sig and a Lampi Amber IIinvest in good spdif...two i can strongly recommend are AQ Eagleye and Nordost Silver Shadowhave fun...also dont rule out an MSB analog..... | |
| Bricasti M1 vs DCS Debussy DCS implement many changes in software which is normally FREE....no new board needed....and of course they have been around for years and have a massive engineering budget.....so just like KEF, they should be able to out innovate the little no nam... |