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| Aliexpress Marketplace practices, be for warned. CARDAS AUDIO. https://www.cardas.com/counterfeit “…. Assuming you don’t work here (and statistically, you probably don’t), avoid AliExpress. They pretend to have a mechanism for reporting counterfeits, but it is littered with dead links and butt... | |
| Desktop - Nearfield Speakers: Totem Mite or Quad S1 FWIW, there is a contemporaneous post on near-field speakers currently on AGON https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/recommend-a-desktop-nearfield-speaker-for-me | |
| Desktop - Nearfield Speakers: Totem Mite or Quad S1 Providing a meaningful comment is entirely dependent on knowing what the rest of your system is comprised of. TOTEM and QUAD are VERY different speakers. | |
| Recommend a desktop nearfield speaker for me HARBETH P3ESR XD +1 highly recommended - Works with a wide range of amplifiers – suggested from 15W/channel https://youtu.be/22BwUQZ50eQ 2023 STEREOPHILE Editor's Choice Award "I love the Harbeth P3ESR. I think it's the best iteration yet from... | |
| Time For a CD Player Upgrade @8th-note “… I doubt that a new CD player will sound less bright than your Rega. CD players have a flat frequency response and from that standpoint they sound very similar to one another.… MY TAKE: I strongly disagree with that over- generaliza... | |
| speakers that are a little laid back in the mids Wharfedale EVO4.2 Wharfedale LINTON | |
| Time For a CD Player Upgrade Stretch it a bit more for the REGA ISIS VALVE cdp/dac pre-owned if you elect to go all in one | |
| Qobuz Nope …. All good here. looks like it’s only you so far. | |
| Totem Acoustic Forest Signatures @scthom Think MOON by SIMAUDIO . I had FORESTS in a prior system so I know their strengths and their warts very well. They are hungry power hogs that need a lot of current (amps) to get them to open up fully. WPC are meaningless… it’s... | |
| Am I wasting money on the theory of Bi-amping? It’s entirely system dependent , more often then nought by facing challenging speakers, I had TOTEM FORESTs in a prior system that are notorious hungrty power hogs .I drove them with a high-current 100 wpc integrated amplifier with mixed perfor... | |
| What are the best subwoofers you have heard for music. Speed, Musicality and integration ATC C1 MK2 subwoofer : choice of real wood veneer cabinets, premium hand-built drivers, and ATC’s standard 6 year warranty. Highly recommended. Best of breed in the up to $4K strata, that I auditioned (and bought) to complement my HARBETH s... | |
| Are REL the most Musical Subs? At it’s $3K cap pricepoint, the ATC C1 Sub Mk2 bested all comers in my system. Highly recommended. | |
| Do different speaker stands can really make a big sound improvement? @limomangus Your pontification that speaker stands are built like Steinway pianos is dead wrong and patently ridiculous. Nobody said that nor did anybody intimate anything of the sorts Rather, go back and reread what was actually posted, . What... | |
| Do different speaker stands can really make a big sound improvement? Your HARBETHs - like all HARBETHs - share an attribute requiring an “open” design and open construction speaker stand, instead of a “dulled-down” filled inert design cheap speaker stand. The latter make HARBETHs sound very flat, and comparatively ... | |
| Integrated Suggestions for a Garage System REGA BRIO |