phusis
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| Things you did not know about what is inside your speakers and the Huge markups @panzrwagn wrote: @phusis re: 'The Joseph Audio Perspective 2, which retails for something around $14k or so today, is almost identical to the SEAS Thor kit," I believe you’re addressing poster @russbutton here. | |
| Wilsons new flagship @deep_333 wrote: I have a different approach to keep costs down these days...I like pro horns that aren’t marketed for home use, but, they can beat the daylights out of anything... like a pioneer xy-3b, it had some tad hands in it. Danley, elect... | |
| Wilsons new flagship @whart -- | |
| Wilsons new flagship @daveyf wrote: Try not to... To you, obviously by now, but you're not the only recipient of what I tried to clarify, so perhaps others can come away with something here, and not just a confirmation of a bias against another segment of speakers... | |
| Wilsons new flagship @daveyf -- Well, I tried | |
| Wilsons new flagship @daveyf wrote: Hearing a system with large horn speakers like the Bionor’s is certainly different than what one typically hears from most (all?) modern systems. But this sound is very much what one hears from the typical large film/theater syste... | |
| Matrix Audio SI-1 Network Isolator @grannyring -- Congrats on your acquisition of the SI-1. It will be interesting to learn of your findings once the unit has exceeded 150 hours of use, so please report back - should you care to. Optimization of an existing setup's different mai... | |
| video about taking delivery of large electrostatic panels that replaced my TADs. @emailists -- Subscribed. The TAD CR1's are indeed great speakers. Interesting to see your move to the Prodigio ESL's (congrats), as well as to learn some of your initial impressions of them. How do they evolve as you get more acquainted with t... | |
| LaScala speakers @deep_333 wrote: All these big hifi horns should be treated like the installation grade pro speakers....dsp, clean crossover, driver delays and the right amount of peq to taste....There’s a reason big horns have some haters...its because of puri... | |
| Wilsons new flagship @ghdprentice wrote: I'd also like to point out among the general public spending $10K on a set of speakers would receive all the criticism the Wilson does. The general, non-audiophile public is irrelevant in this context. You mean to imply the... | |
| Things you did not know about what is inside your speakers and the Huge markups @russbutton wrote: The level of markups has been well known for the last 50 years. What never stops surprising me is how many still happily pay them. Eventually it calls for the surprise to be turned into deduction and see the money game for ... | |
| Things you did not know about what is inside your speakers and the Huge markups @ghdprentice wrote: The "look what the drivers cost" argument has been around for decades. It assumes that a loudspeaker is simply the sum of its parts. In reality, the parts are often the easy part. The late Peter Snell did great things with ... | |
| So what about powered Speakers? @erik_squires wrote: I'm a huge fan of powered speakers, while at the same time really skeptical of the price tags on some of them. Focal's residential models for instance make me scratch my head. Their pro powered speakers seem much better va... | |
| How many watts do you really need? Other than room size, listening distance, the degree to which the listening room is dampened/treated with acoustic measures, the specific amp design and SPL preference as relative factors: For one I’d say watts and their need in quantity is very ... | |
| So what about powered Speakers? The Absolute Sound review of the ATC EL50 active speakers. |