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| 15k USD Speakers for Classical and Pop Extended Listening, Near setup, Low volume @ilikeclassical You have a great room for your office. I think you can get a floor stander in there easy. Not too big though. Just for giggles why not try moving your desk back a bit more and them move your chair closer to the speaker side and l... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! @ronkent the issue for me was that I could hear hiss from the preamp on quiet musical passages. Once I heard it was always on my mind and I was only listening to the hiss, even on louder passages. Now this hiss level is about the same for a lot of... | |
| Cd player If your DAC is compatible then the following is great, even with the cheapest used OPPO as a transport (like $200). An additional bonus is that it also plays DSD (SACD). My Benchmark DAC3B and Schitt Yggi+ LIM DACs both work with it. I was thinkin... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! I have owned the CODA 07x for a year. I listen near-field and the 07x was way too noisy for me. The Holo Serene is a comparable and totally silent with better clarity but not as tubeby. Someone that wants more warmth may like the 07x more. I thin... | |
| Breaking news! Jays Audio is moving to Texas and takes interest in McIntosh Are you his publicist? Thanks, I did not know what he was up to since his thread stopped. | |
| 15k USD Speakers for Classical and Pop Extended Listening, Near setup, Low volume If you are close by, go have a listen to this and compare with Magico, Vivid, KEF, Focal, Paradigm in the same price range or much higher. I have with the bigger NS5000. NS-3000 – Custom Home Automation Solution, Entertainment Systems (kennedy-hi... | |
| 15k USD Speakers for Classical and Pop Extended Listening, Near setup, Low volume @akg_ca Are you speaking from experience? of doing this in a small room. If not then you need to understand the issues of a desk, monitors, and others reflecting in front of you. That will be worse than elevator music. @ilikeclassical I gave you ... | |
| 15k USD Speakers for Classical and Pop Extended Listening, Near setup, Low volume The KEF Reference 1 was a speaker I was considering. However, I upgraded my KEF LS50 to the KEF LS50 Meta and heard a big improvement. Contrary to what I read online about it being a minor improvement. I have really good gear and could hear the di... | |
| 15k USD Speakers for Classical and Pop Extended Listening, Near setup, Low volume @grislybutter So you were underwhelmed when you heard a speaker behind you? Total opposite of how I hear my office system. | |
| 15k USD Speakers for Classical and Pop Extended Listening, Near setup, Low volume A floor stander like the Paradigm Personal 3F with a super warm amp. Something along those line. I may have misspoken when I said a floor stander could work great. I was assuming the clear listening space was 13 x 21. I now think that is your over... | |
| 15k USD Speakers for Classical and Pop Extended Listening, Near setup, Low volume I am from Toronto (yyz) but now live in Santa Barbara, CA. There is a great CODA dealer out of Winnipeg I forgot the guy’s name. Doug at Coda can give you the dealer info for Canada. Your room is much better than mine for audio. Whatever, you put... | |
| 15k USD Speakers for Classical and Pop Extended Listening, Near setup, Low volume My friend Danny who knows more about audio that I ever will recently came over to listen to my other system. He listened to my office system too. He was blown away by the LRS+ and said why would you need anything else in a small room such as mine.... | |
| Handling Heavy Amps The second AHB2 will give you more volume on your speakers. On my NS5000 speaker my stereo AHB2 is about 90% of max volume for about 70-80 dB. I like to use the lowest gain setting on the amp. The middle gain setting does get you a bit more granu... | |
| 15k USD Speakers for Classical and Pop Extended Listening, Near setup, Low volume A better approach would be to put the speaker behind you so that the desk is not a big reflective surface. If you do not want to do that then some small monitors on the desktop (preferably with some DSP) would be choice #2 for me. Office System |... | |
| Handling Heavy Amps The AHB2 will sound different than both of the Bryston 4B3 and Accuphase. I am not a huge Bryston fan anymore, but I would take a 4B3 over a single AHB2 on the Harbeth. I would take 2 AHB2 over the 4B3. The Accuphase and Harbeth would not work fr... |