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moving magnet or moving coil cartrige
Yes, please dont buy MM cartridges, leave more for us!!! 
Best U.S.A. speakers?
Most of them use European components. 
Does anyone do speaker mods?
Speaker design is so complicated and so many factors are tuned in that changing a driver could make a mess out of everything, If you change the tweeter and it has more sensibility than the older one, higher frequencies will be louder and the speak... 
Change to Horns or stay Dynamic
Try to listen to Tactrix horns or LeCleach profiles too, new profiles, implementations and time alignment clean out the tipical horn sound, I had a lot of Vintage horns from Altec Valencias to Hartsfield toploaders and the newer versions are way m... 
speakers for classical music
It all falls down to, do you want to be the conductor or do you want to be in the back seat, or way out in the hallway!!!My speakers are about 105-106 db sensitive from 170 hz up (almost no resistors in the Xover), I use MONSTER 12 watt tube ampli... 
speakers for classical music
We are all cooking in this audio kitchen, I have tried SS chip amps with horns and it was very good actually, the one I tried (have) is DIY but I guess a more refined amp could do very well, a very close friend has the Avantgarde Duos also and jus... 
speakers for classical music
I guess there are two camps for audiophile reproduction, the SS camp with Lower efficiency speakers and the Tube camp with high efficiency speakers. To achieve a credible result for full symphonic orchestras in both camps top of the line equipment... 
Change to Horns or stay Dynamic
So Change to horns or stay with cones?I guess this is the right answer not in my words:Your argument about home audio listening is valid if you listen at fairly low average spl levels of lets say, around 75db. Because for a good sense of dynamics ... 
speakers for classical music
Have any on the Mahler owners listened in their own room to a CAR or Avantgarde Trio speaker...with full orchestra of course?Can we get a direct comparison from someone? 
best 4.5" midrange drivers under $1K
Look up Feastrex they are becoming more and more available, thay have a lower line that is still expensive but I would say still within reach D5 (12cm massive AlNiCo/Permendur) - 290,000 yen each This might be old datahttp://www.lotusgroupusa.com/... 
Change to Horns or stay Dynamic
Sorry for a late response, I have been away from my computer. I have tried Lowthers on M.King transmision line, on Open Baffle and on Front horns, really the best setup for lowthers is front horns they sound very sweet (unlike to how they sound on... 
Change to Horns or stay Dynamic
Go horns... Detail is amazing and dynamics like real music, after having had horns for a while my friends systems with dynamic speakers sound like a very nice reproduction of music, horns sound like music right there...I tried a lot of full ranger... 
Why use CD Transport instead of computer source
Where did this blind tests occur at the Manufacturer-Ditributor instalations or in a neutral field.I think most serious audiophiles dont cheat themselves, I wont mind having a cheaper player beat a very expensive transport, hell I will sell my For... 
Benchmark USB DAC vs. EAD 7000 Mk3 DAC
Sidssp, You are correct, but the Benchmark wasnt mine, a friend brought it from his system and the first day I had it here it was just connected, we did disconnect it later to try another DAC, and then back on, so heat up time was a must before ev... 
Benchmark USB DAC vs. EAD 7000 Mk3 DAC
I have the EAD 7000 mkIII for a long time now, I tried the Benchmark in my system and compared, Benchmark needs a long heat-up time to start sounding nicer, it was a bit edgy and thinner...maybe if you have a dark sounding system it will change th...