ddan6815

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Sound is DARK / FORWARD / TRANSPARENT?
I think all these terms are used when describing the sound stage of your system. Music is subjective to the listener, and the type music they listen to. I prefer a more laid back sound, which to me is the opposite of forward. The word forward is c... 
Need help matching equipment
I guess you're right. No offense taken. I think the only reason I asked for opinions is that It appears that a lot of the members here know a lot more than I do when it comes to speaker specifications, and are more experienced than I am when it co... 
Need help matching equipment
I guess to make it a bit simplier, what I really need to know is, which amp will mate better with Apogees, and which one for the Diva 5.1? 
Mancave help
Thanks Ivan,for your needed input, and thanks to the others that made it easy for me to make a decision,based on not having to read thru several opinions of others, I made an opinion based on my own gut feeling and the little knowledge I have on s... 
Starter Dac for Headphones...
I cant really give you a lot of advice pertaining to this subject. What I can tell you is that I recently purchased a DAC/HEADPHONE AMP. I use it to play music from my laptop thru my home stereo using the usb, I use it to bypass the older dac in m... 
Mancave help
Thank you for your in depth response. As you can possibly tell Im not very technically inclined. I'm actually starting to think that maybe a vintage type speaker may also be a good option . Right now my ST70 is used with my baby advent, and I love... 
swan divas 5.1
If you will please review my post MANCAVE,If will give you an idea of what I'm considering them for. 
swan divas 5.1
They were asking 400, I got them down to $250 
BABY ADVENT II
I may consider doing that once i get the ones that need refoaming done. 
BABY ADVENT II
$100 FOR ALL 4 PAIR, ALTHOUGH THREE NEEDS REFOAMING 
Speakers to hang on to for LIFE
I lucked upon a pair Apogee Centaur a couple yrs ago on CL.very smooth sounding speaker. I'm sure they will be here for awhile. Also lucked into 2 pair Advent Baby II AND TWO PAIR BABY'S still in original boxes. cabinet and grills in perfect condi... 
Speakers for Bedroom - Vinyl/Vintage equipment
I'm sure my bedroom system is no comparison to what you're going to have, but I recently pulled my old equipment from the attic which consist of an old yamahac-50 preamp, maratntz c65 cd player and a SONAMP 260 amp, purchased a few sets of Baby Ad... 
Recommended acoustic recordings
I would recommend almost any John Pizzarelli, or Acoustic Alchemy. 
best pre-amp new or used for under $500?
yes, I run a Velodyne fsp18, which I recently aquired. I run my Apogees full range, using the crossover of the sub instead of the usp1 crossover, If I was the run my Apogees using the high pass/low pass filters, I would use the crossover from the ... 
Why not horns?
would the old JBL L300 be considered horn type speakers. I owned those for about 10 yrs