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| Really Inexpensive Systems That Sounded Great? I have a little system in a back room with some home brew loudspeakers with a 5" Vifa bass driver and a 1" soft dome Peerless tweeter. Damn things sound GOOD. I got the drivers from Madisound. The Vifa was being remaindered and I paid $15 each ... | |
| streaming and audiophile stereo Bits is bits. That's the beauty of digital. Your most cost effective streamer is a dedicated laptop PC. Spend a pile on some streamer and it won't sound a bit different. Bits is bits. | |
| Where to spend my money... There's nothing wrong with what you have. There is nothing you're going to buy that is really going make an improvement worth the trouble and money you're going to go through. | |
| The Impossible Has Happened Today's $18,000 wonder is next year's $10,000 White Elephant. | |
| Tube or solid state You can run a good tube preamp into either tube or solid state power amps, so there’s no reason NOT to run a tube preamp if you get a good one. But power amps are a different story. I’ve had more than one friend spend Large Cash on a tube power am... | |
| Speakers with deep/powerful bass There's no replacement for displacement. | |
| World's Best Stereo System ?... It can't be the world's best stereo system because I have the world's best stereo system. | |
| Is there anything better than live recordings? What's better than a live recording is a live recording that YOU engineered. Having spent some time doing location recording, you've learned what works and have brought it home. When you play it back at home and it feels like it did live, THEN y... | |
| Want to add vinyl to my system. Clearly you have money to burn. Lots of it. Rega is a great choice as a "plug-n-play" deck, especially if you get a Rega cartrdige. Their arms are engineered to work with their cartridges. Anyone else's cartridge may take some serious work to ... | |
| Hi-end audio is a big zero This is a 1st World problem. Y'all are buying your hi-fi gear the same way you buy your luxury cars. I suppose a sense of entitlement goes with the crazy prices being spent on this stuff. Years ago I went into an audio salon in Berkeley to audi... | |
| Open Baffle Experience This whole discussion has all been about open baffle merits, referencing the Linkwitz designs. What’s been totally missing from the discussion is the merits of active amplification. All of the Linkwitz designs use active amplification. Very few, i... | |
| Considering Towers in the $3000 range If you're on the East Coast, your best value at $3000 is this set of Linkwitz Orions. | |
| Most economical way to ship large speakers? I'm in the middle of moving to Hawaii. I packed my floor standing loudspeakers by first wrapping them in the large plastic wrap you get from OfficeMax. Then adding a couple layers of bubble wrap. Then I put each of them in a wardrobe carton and... | |
| Why do so many members seem afraid of making an audio decision? @ghdprentice There are a couple of ways to go DIY. It's great fun to do your own engineering. You learn a great deal. But you can always let someone else do the engineering and you just build their design. You suggest that a DIY guy isn't... | |
| Why do so many members seem afraid of making an audio decision? As others have said here, we are hesitant because of the money involved and the cost of mistakes. This is supposed to be enjoyable, not a worry. You're supposed to love what you're doing, not agonize over the reality that perfection is unattaina... |