shubertmaniac
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| Money no object,,,,which speakers would you own??? Avalon Sentinel or the Sound Lab Ultimate-1. Either onefor me. Aesthetix Io preamp and the AtmaSphere MA-3 OTLamps. Purist cables/interconnects. For playback the highend Metronome CD setup. If ss: Spectral DMA360 with DMC30sland the new SDR4000s c... | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music Two new additions for the chamber music crowd:Brahms Viola/Clarinet sonatas, Opus 120, nos. 1 and 2.The viola version with Kim Kashkashian is absolutely marvelous. Her playing is willful without being forceful. I have the Naxos CD of the clarinet ... | |
| Customer service? Spectral service is absolutely first rate. Even for products that are 15 years old like my DMA200 and DMC10. Service for me is also high in my consideration for purchasing new audio equipment. What is the purpose of a great sounding piece when it ... | |
| The Fastest most musical amp Duke: you can actually damage Spectral amps, in particular the newest ones, without MIT/Spectral cables. The MIT cables act as a low pass filter to eliminate any HF hash getting through. | |
| How Many??? I do not know whether serial nos. mean anything. But mySpectral DMA200 was s/n 234 and that was year 2/3 into production. My Avalon Radians were the 76th pair, in their 1st production run. So I could surmise, the numbers are low. One note is the b... | |
| How Many??? Just curious, in the sense, how many companies even if theyhave a good speaker, just go out of business. It is lackof sales, lack of sales distribution, or lousy business model? Can a speaker company sustain itself if sales in the 100s or even 10s... | |
| Kharma CRM 3.2F vs. Avalon Eidolon and Diamond Flex: where did you here the Avalon Diamonds? I heard theDiamonds at Overture in Delaware with an all Spectralsetup. It looks like the same room/setup as the plain janeEidolons; which sounded at one time terrible (see mytirades with cfb about the ... | |
| Kharma CRM 3.2F vs. Avalon Eidolon and Diamond D911: very interesting, I found them to be light and airy compared to the ceramic tweeter in the plain jane Eidolon. And even lighter and airier than the titanium tweeter on myRadians. The plain jane Kharmas use a soft dome tweeter(revelator?) and... | |
| Advise Needed, Best speakers for approx $15,000 I think Duke's suggestion of listening to the Sound LabM1s or maybe the new R3s with some subwoofers are what you are looking for. Forget Kharmas or Avalons because of your listening tastes. The JC-1s will probably drive any speaker you choose. An... | |
| Let's forget about being politically correct Asa: sorry I have been participating lately but I have been out of town. As far as the realm of the universe, it is only in spiral galaxies that they cannot account for the missing mass, however in very recent research, they can account for all th... | |
| Let's forget about being politically correct Asa: Yes I was playing a fool's role. I did not say you areindifferent to "science". I am saying that "science", in a positive way, is just one way to view the world. Its world view is different in content then say a worldview of ashaman in some f... | |
| Let's forget about being politically correct Asa: Science does have meaning. Science is not only a manipulation of matter but of ideas, too. You statedZeno's paradox. The great physicists Newton and Liebnitz solved this apparent dilemma by discovering the ingenious "limit". Without the limit... | |
| Let's forget about being politically correct Asa: You are correct in ascertaining that"science" cannot get us any closer to the music. Measurements like THD only display the electronic charactristics of a piece of electronic equipment, and not necessarily any musical charactistics. There is ... | |
| Balance inputs on Spectral DMA200 On the DMA200(I also have two,too!), I have tried balancedand unbalanced. Again I could not discern any differencebetween the two types of connections. I use MIT MI350 OracleRCAs between the DMA200 and the DMC30sl preamp, use MIT MT770 UL RCAs bet... | |
| Opinion of Avalon Speakers or Alternataives I purchased a complete $60,000 2c3d from Agon over thelast 5 months from MIT cables/power conditioning to Spectral electronics to Avalon Radian speakers for under $16000.00 Holographic, very musical, and once setup properlyvery easy to care for an... |