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| Klipsch Heresy? Crazy to consider? Very valid choice with many sonic strengths at their price. If you need more bass later get a good sub. Don't talk to most audiophiles about them, you will get a biased opinion. Talk to music lovers or owners. | |
| Single driver speakers without the pitfalls? The right 2 way system with a compression driver would open up your ears and eyes. Small room, yes. Directness, yes. Much lower distortion, great dynamics. | |
| What's a good alternative to Pass Labs? The amp is very, very unlikely to be your problem. You are far better off fixing the offending component. And if it is the speakers causing the brightness problem you can work all you want to use compensating equipment, but the distortion causing ... | |
| Revel Ultima 3? The Ultima 2 tweeter goes high, but it is not ultra responsive or ultra detailed. Because it goes high it sounds detailed, but it does bridge over detail that a few other tweeters get.....but very few get more detail without some resonance and "fa... | |
| Directional speaker cables - switching direction Different tubes, different companies, active devices, of course there is a difference. And as they break in there is a difference. Real reasons, and not all unmeasureable. Different cable designs? Absolutely, sound different, measure different, ob... | |
| Directional speaker cables - switching direction It really depends on the individual, hard and fast rules about gender and hearing acuity are not truly "hard and fast". For instance, no female in my family or any girlfriend I have had can hear with the acuity that I can....and I'm male. I've met... | |
| Do I keep the Oracle Delphi IV/V? No Rega or Origin Live ever dreamed it had as good platter, subplatter, quality of machining, or precision of moving parts as an Oracle. I have nothing to do with Oracle, don't own one, but I've had direct experience with the tables you mention. G... | |
| Single driver speakers without the pitfalls? The Voxativ mentioned above is interesting in that it shows a good point: that audio can get carried away with features and forget about the benefit package.Having had several good listens, I'm amazed this speaker was given the coverage it has bee... | |
| Please help with the cable burner Spyders of drivers break in with repeated movement. Surrounds do also. You can hear both.Running signal does not change cables. They do not break in. If you have good ears you would be able to tell a broken-in woofer from a non-broken in if you we... | |
| Bass Attenuation - best approach Measure the woofer resistance with an ohm meter to see if it is 4 ohm or 8 ohm. It likely is one of the 2. Then purchase an L-Pad from Parts Express in the right resistance. This will keep your crossover working at the right point, just hook the l... | |
| Wilson Maxx 3 Wait! If Wilson it is to be, get one of the later designs with the new tweeter. Your ears will thank you, and you won't be on a never ending quest for cables and electronics to work around the old tweeter. | |
| Please help with the cable burner Yes, audio is full of humor, I love watching "con-man" movies, such as "The Sting" and the George C. Scott movie "The Flim-Flam Man". But in audio, there is a never ending line of these characters, each with their own different story of how they h... | |
| Please help with the cable burner Wow. So "cables acquire a memory". Amazing that high end audio is smarter than all scientists at all research institutions involved with signal transmission over 100 years. How did analog communications by wire ever survive for those 100 years? Ho... | |
| Quality system, make poor recordings sound better? Absolutely Whart, getting a very clear midrange that also is grain free, well, the only way is low distortion. And I agree, sins of omission, like not extending real high at the top end, easy to live with if the mids are right. So many "high end" ... | |
| Quality system, make poor recordings sound better? A system can be "better" in terms of extension and resolution, but not distortion, and that can make a large number of recordings sound bad.But my goal is to improve through lower distortion wherever the case, as tough as it is to do. And I mean t... |