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| New speakers? No thanks. I love Vandersteens. Still have the Model 4's (mid-'80s model) that I had set up in previous house. That was a high point in my audio life.No room in new house for that system, so it has all been desktop audio for past 10+ years (before then it wa... | |
| How to identify tube amp there's a piece of wood INSIDE the case! that's insane! | |
| I’m gob smacked. What were you’re aha moments? (great thread) I'll keep it in the last 5 yrs, since all my really big 2-channel moments were 35+ yrs ago.I have a pretty robust desktop system. For years I got along with less than audiophile 2.1 speakers/sub. Pretty good, but not as good as poss... | |
| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. Wherever people talk about DACs, certain themes reliably emerge:-- that R2R, specifically NOS, sounds better, more natural than D/S-- D/S DACs sound way more accurate than multibit & NOS DACs, and image way better-- that certain DACs or DAC mf... | |
| Highest BUILD quality tube amps? +1 for Music Reference tube amps. Roger really knows what he's doing. The amps I have appear to be bullet-proof... | |
| People That Have Upgraded From Harbeth 30.1s.... Interesting to read this thread, since I’ve obsessed over Harbeths for a long time. The larger models (30 & 40) interest me most, but there’s nowhere for them in this house--and they’re way too large for my robust (but space-constrained) deskt... | |
| Which area of components to spend the most $ on? Boy I was wrong all my life! Interesting thread. In my experience, you can always make improvements on the front end of the system--the line or phono level sources, and yes, even interconnects sometimes--and hear those improvements pretty clearly on whatever speakers you have... | |
| Catastrophic Accident! What To Do!? Always sorry to hear about an audio tragedy. We've all been there.IMHO the RM-9 is well worth fixing & keeping. I built a big bad 2-channel system around one in the late '80s. Loved that sound.I still have two RM-9s in storage. I had Roger con... | |
| Which Class D Amplifier? PS Audio, Ghent, Nord, Merrill or other??? I am loving this thread! I did months of exhaustive product research on class D amps last year, going back 4-5 years, all in search of musically effective (as well as powerful) class D amp options for my extremely crowded desktop (literally nowher... | |
| Surprised at this Chinese powered speakers for peanuts... I have a larger/more powerful variant of the Edifier, the Swan M200 MKIII (powered 2-way w/5.25" woofer & unique backward sloping speaker case). The Swan is physically very similar to the top-of-the-line Edifier. My guess is they're made in th... | |
| Speakers for a small room If it were me, I'd get either Quad S2 or Ascend Acoustic Sierra 2 bookshelf speakers (both get raves) & stand mount them. I'd also get a pair of SVS SB-1000 or SB-2000 subs. And I'd finish that with a Marchand electronic crossover to divide si... | |
| The awakening... Interesting post: an "audiophile conversion/epiphany" narrative. I can relate (sort of).Nearly 30 years ago I had my dream audiophile system set up in my 1st house: big Vandersteen 4s, tube amps, tube preamp, top notch tuner, TT, a couple modded e... | |
| What unknown musical artist would you like to share with your fellow audiophiles? David Hykes and The Harmonic Choir. Album, "Hearing Solar Winds" (1 of the cuts is played in link below).If you can imagine Tuvan throat-singing adapted to droning chant in highly reverberant spaces...well, you just have to hear it.If you like tra... | |
| Speakers with the most detailed midrange? (non-ESL/planar) +1 on ATC. I'm running a pair of ATC SCM12 Pros on desktop system (powered by a Wyred 4 Sound ST-500). The mids are among the most detailed, information-rich I've ever heard. A bit forward but not bright or peaky. It's a 2-way w/enough bass & ... | |
| Recommendation for DAC needed. I have 2 multibit DACs (Audio GD DAC-19; and NOS 19). The NOS DAC is in my primary system. Both have stopped my "digital quest" in its tracks, at least for the time being. So if I upgrade at all, it will have to be to even better multibit DACs. Si... |