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| Daedalus I hereby swear never to prevaricate again. Audiophiles' honor. But don't ya mean 'pontificate' or something? Doesn't prevaricate mean to lie?! Subjectivity it all is, but I tell it like I hear it.Of course you realize, my next review will now like... | |
| advice on amp - $3,500 maximum budget I recently discovered a little company called Plinius and may I say my p10 amplifier is among the best I've heard at pulling off just a trace of warmth without going overboard. Along these lines, perhaps one of their class a amps might float your ... | |
| Best amps for Totem hawks?? please help Not really BORING per se-- as in slow and pokey or something. Just-- mechanical. Like "here is your music sir. Will that be all?" No-- please give me a bit of humanity will ya? "I cant do that Dave-- I can only reproduce what I am fed." Bryston (a... | |
| Best amps for Totem hawks?? please help Had the A5 amp in house for a time. Listened via a Modwright SE preamp. In comparison to Bel Canto Ref 1000's, a Unico SE integrated, a Bel Canto S300 and an ARC 100.2, it sounded rather mechanical-- kind of like Thiel speakers have always sounded... | |
| Best amps for Totem hawks?? please help I drove my totem arros to perfection with my unison UNICO integrated. I will just bet its eighty watts or the one forty of its younger bigger brother, the UNICO SE, would be amazing with hawks. Slightly less quick than the naim gear I used to own ... | |
| Totem The One or Dynaudio Contour S1.4 I am a HUGE fan of the Totem ones- midrange presence second to none- and The Ones would probably float my boat big time.Totems are certainly not tipped up in the highs-- if anything a touch smooth ('backed up' if you can call it that- by most revi... | |
| Rowland preamps?????? Fwiw-- I am the guy listing the LS-5 for nearly 2300 dollars. That's because about a year ago I paid about 2450.00 for it! That's what they go for-- or at least did. I figure 2250 then aint half bad as i have seen them for 2300 and 2400 in the pas... | |
| Totem Owners.... Allow me to chime in as a long-time totem lover. My personal fave is the Model One- always has been. Fantastic mids and incredible coherence not to mention doing all the audiophile tricks we love (sitting up and begging etc.). I have also owned ar... | |
| Speakers for a smaller room/moving issues... Guys-- I chose a condo and it is essentially one huge room with a cathedral ceiling and one bedroom. I'm thinking..... (drum roll). Quads!!! Always loved 63's and now I'll have the space (finally) to get em out from the front wall 5 feet or so. A... | |
| Speakers for a smaller room/moving issues... Actually-- I'll be renting on Long Island, as that's where work is taking me. Soooooo.... I wont have to deal with a 4th floor walk-up or what-have-you, nor are there many 'pre-war' buildings. Most I have seen are newish (10-20 years old) and knoc... | |
| Speakers for a smaller room/moving issues... Nrenter-- I am not really asking about speakers I guess. I have been at this hobby for over 20 years and have pretty much owned everything from quads to totems to proacs to reynauds to maggies to dynaudios to B&Ws to Living voices to Alons to ... | |
| Speakers for a smaller room/moving issues... I appreciate your replies so far. Good speaker recs plus--I feel somewhat less neurotic thanks to James. Normalization of my feelings-- a classic Dr. Phil move. James, the Wilson audio speakers are out of my price range (heard great things though... | |
| Speakers for a smaller room/moving issues... Used to own a pair of Tukans-- great speaker-- fast and involving. Nice upfront presentation. As far as LS3/5 family goes-- if they were decent at lowish levels-- I might be so inclined. However, the inefficiency of say, a Harbeth HLP3 ES might n... | |
| No bass in the Proac Response 3 I didnt read all these posts so if someone said this already-- sorry-- but when you refoamed-- you had to take the woofer out of the box, right? Did you maybe re-wire out of phase (easy to check) or not tighten the screws down enough to seal the ... | |
| Meridian 568 v ARC Tube preamp for digital scource The ARC LS 17 is a very good pre but do be aware-- it does NOT sound tubey. I owned and sold one because I wanted just a touch more sugar in the sound. The LS 17 and likely by extension the 6H30 tubed LS 26, will be fairly exacting in their presen... |