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| Pro Mid field monitors vs audiophile speakers. Powered studio speakers are very good. No real down side just a different way of doing it. Most are tuned to be flat and you might not like the sound. Some have a lot of adjustments which can be nice. I find focal’s monitors to be pretty good and ... | |
| will changing to solid-state make the bass in my wilson sophias better at low volume? Once I demoed the Sophia 3 with a musical fidelity A5 (solid state integrated amp) back to back with a $30k AR tube pre and amp (model?). The tube setup lost most of the dynamic bass slam that I found intriguing on the A5. The bass had crazy slam ... | |
| Tube amp Friendly Speaker That Sounds like Klipsch Cornwall Video off the Cornwall internals for those that have not seen it. https://youtu.be/QD4_SqC0eeY | |
| Headphones I did not read all the responses but have extensive headphone experience and own many of the highend brands and flavor of the month headphones. I have own the HD600 and HD650s. I would pass on them. They lack dynamics and need specialty amps to so... | |
| Tube amp Friendly Speaker That Sounds like Klipsch Cornwall Oz,Just lack of bracing is what I was thinking about. It does not seem like there is any side bracing that is typical for higher end speakers. Think B&W “matrix” bracing. I have always rationalized bracing to be important in my head but have n... | |
| Tube amp Friendly Speaker That Sounds like Klipsch Cornwall I was intrigued by the Cornwall IV and went to my local dealer that had the Forte 3 and the la-scala on the floor (no cornwalls). I am also a long time Thiel owner (2.4). The fortes were just hooked up to an integra reciver and sounded pretty ba... | |
| Focal Kanta 2 vs Revel F228Be “I was wondering why they weren’t on the list.”Probably because the price increased from $14,500 to $19,000. At $19k I would look for a larger speakers but that is me (I have a large room). I have not heard them so on opinion on sound quality. | |
| New Klipsch Forte III’s Last_lemming,I demoed a pair and sounded as you describe. I don’t know how much time was on them. I would add subs but I add subs to everything lol. | |
| B&W 702 Signature vs The original B&W 702 S2 I owned the 703s (order version of the 702s) and I think they are really bad (first “highend” speaker and I did not know any better). There is some thing very odd with the upper mids around 4-5k range. The current 804d3 do the same thing imo. It i... | |
| "Musical" subwoofers? Advice please on comparing JL subs The JL audio E110 will be fine. Don’t let anyone tell you different. The high pass crossover in then works well if you have separates (the sub goes between your pre amp and amp). I would go with two smaller subs over one larger more expensive sub... | |
| Magico A3 Yyzsantabara,Yes that was me and I remember our conversations. I contacted audiogon about fishing emails I was receiving from their site and they just closed my account with no discussion. That was their version of customer service....I lost inter... | |
| Magico A3 Ozzy,the sopras do look nice. I have not heard them but liked the 1037be back when I demoed them. | |
| Magico A3 Prof,Mostly it is Upgraditus. I am always looking for more detail. I have had the thiels for awhile (5 years maybe) and I am just board with them now. I have not demoed the newest models from the major brands. Last time I looked around at Sophia 3... | |
| Magico A3 Prof,what thiel do you have? I have a pair of 2.4CS that I pair with two JLE112s and I am looking into the A3. Thanks. | |
| Using JL Audio Esub with Merlin VSM I have 2 E112s in my system. They are between my preamp and amp using the internal high pass cross over. You will want to use the JL’s internal crossover as it does a very good job. You will have to set each volume on the sub during setup though. ... |