rgs92
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| Do I need to use filler in my speaker stands? Yeah, just to go tangential on my own thread here, but the little 30-pound Lahave speakers have a place in my heart such that I'll never sell them even if I the upgrade bug hits and I try something new out of curiosity.I have many speaker I liked ... | |
| Do I need to use filler in my speaker stands? The monitors I referred to are my Lahave Mela monitors. I also have SF Cremona Auditors (also fine, but the Lahaves are more natural and better in every way I can discern.)And Roxy54-- believe it or not, I've go an old pair of Celestion SL6s I bou... | |
| Ayon CD2S vs ModWright XA-5400ES Ultimate Truth I had the ModWright, liked it, but sold it and returned to EMM (CDSA w/X upgrade, then XDS1) which have a firmer grip on the lower mids and bass and a je-ne-sais-quoi wonderful natural texture in the mids.Also, I see no reason to fuss with tubes a... | |
| Are all external hard drives the same? G-Techs are the quietest and most reliable drives I've owned (5 of them for about 6 years now with no failures, all conventional ones and one solid state).The newest versions are the quietest. They run cool too with little vibration.I have a 3tb v... | |
| STAX Lambda Pro or Signature Earspeakers go to headfi | |
| Monitor speakers that disappear:best image/staging Thanks everyone, especially to Johnnyb for the suggestions about the stands. I will look into stands also (Sound Anchors are the only ones I'm familiar with). | |
| Do headphones requiere break-in? Yeah they do, usually about a minimum of 20 hours playing nonstop at least. But there are a lot better phones out there if you have money, from $700 for the Hifiman HE500 (awesome to me and a bargain) to the $2000 Fostex TH900. It sounds like both... | |
| Mating Quad 2905's with crossover and subs? fwiw, I have heard many a system with subwoofers over the years and never heard one I like.Just too amorphous for me. The same goes for equalizers/tone controls.It's nice in theory, but my ears tell me something is always off or unnatural.This eve... | |
| Why do Harbeth speakers have such a cult following Anyone heard the 30.1 ?How is the resolution and detail (say, compared to the SHL5s, or just in general)? Thanks. | |
| Ohm Walsh 2000s vs Vandersteen 2Ces I have had a pair of Ohm Walsh 4s for many years (now relegated to a TV system), and while they are sweet, the omni-thing always annoys me for critical listening where I need a point source for imaging. I've always like the Vandys I heard at shows... | |
| Anyone familiar with the Joseph Audio Rm25xl? I also heard the RM25s and the RM33s at the Stereophile NY shows several times in the early-mid 2000s and always wasvery impressed and thought they were better and more listenable and balanced and natural than the other similar midsize floorstande... | |
| Amplifier for Sonus Faber Cremona M My Luxman L507 integrated (used straight and with a tubed preamp into the power-amp-direct inputs) was marvelous with my Cremona Auditors. Very lifelike, but not tiring or raw, with lots of solid bass. | |
| Von Schweikert VR-6 or Wilson Audio Watt/Puppies 5 Did you ever hear Watt Puppies? If not, DO NOT BUY THEM UNHEARD. They are an acquired taste.VSRs are pretty good and I don't think they will offend you. | |
| Evolution Acoustics MMMicroOne Groovybassist, are you saying the MMOnes sound like Harbeth 7s? I don't particularly like Harbeth 7s (or SHL5s, which I owned for a while).In what ways do the MM Ones sound different than the Harbeths?(More resolution and less of the occasional tw... | |
| Speakers for ML 33H One of the best demos I ever heard was Wilson WP6s with those ML33H amps (at a dealer in Penna. about 12 years ago using my own CDs). So maybe go for those WP7s. The dealer said Transparent top-of-the-line speaker cables made all the difference (t... |