audioman58
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| 3 best 10k speakers now imho The a Sonus Faber Olympia-3 can bebought foraround $10k is verygood sounding and probably the nicest looking. The Focal Sopra another greatspeaker close to the $10k mark with discounts. | |
| 3 best 10k speakers now imho I owned an Audio store for 8 years in the U.K i state the facts the mojorityof speakers have a minimum of a $40% markup some even more . The 3 speakers you picket are solid but everyone has different taste and type of speaker.i have been in audio... | |
| My music sounds brighter How old are the speakers ? If a inner crossover part is going Such as a capacitor that will deduct something from the musical performance. That includes electronics, And does it happen on everything such as cd,recordsEven s new wire or line from... | |
| Another amateur in need of advice For the many good floor standing Loudspeakers a good bookshelf or monitor Loudspeaker , with a decent subwoofer can play lower Bass, and for sure image better then the majority of Floorstanders dollar for dollar unless spending $$ .the less surf... | |
| Tube Line Stage Preamp to Drive Class D Amp The 4P1L single ended Triode preamp. is about as pure as you can get and a very linear Tube . Look up Radu Tarta, a Great vacuum. Tube amp, preamp builder and a preamp like this under $2k Totally transformer based much much less expensive then ... | |
| 3 best 10k speakers now imho Those 3 speakers mentioned are very respectable but internally lessthen top quality Xover parts . They too have a budget 50% for the dealer maybe $3k in parts ,but in some ways there are several monitors with a good subwoofer that image better wit... | |
| Best Speaker cable in the $400.00-$500.00 range for 2 meters Go to Madisound online .Supra from Sweden topcables is around a awg11use a 5- 9s purity Copper over 200 strands and each indiividual strand is Tin plated to eliminate oxidation , as well as microarching according to their engineering guide betwe... | |
| One DAC/integrated you could be happy with forever? I own. The Danish Gato Audio 400S itis a very powerfull but refined integrated amplifier ,with the bonus of having a very respectable BB dac built in ,everything inside is precision built including custom Analoginput sections as well as output .... | |
| ELAC B6 tweak I bought the New Monitor Audio -Studio with matching sand filled stands coupling them. The Platin7m poly caps are pretty neutral and has Silver Wire.i replaces the wire with Supra 5-9s+Pure ,And each strand is Tinned ,The Rondois awg13 ,at $3.00 a... | |
| Replacing fuse As an engineering stand point about a 20% extra toleranceis built into anyGood quality audio product for longevity and allowances forpower variances surges,and or power sags.my uncle has been a master design ,technician for 40 years , with these h... | |
| Replacing fuse No problem in fact many high end fuses are very accurate and have actually poppedon startup for the cheap steel fuses can vary over 15% we have tested these . Curren Lumin in my Poweredsub, And big Gato Audio 400S I went upfrom a 8ampto 10. It is... | |
| Hard to sell my Klipsch Heritage Speakers for a possible Harbeth upgrade. Harbeths depending on model are pretty good mostly in the mids they are many other choices justdepending on yourequipment and tastes , way over priced considering they use cheap xoverparts I have modded for years on a speaker this expensive at lea... | |
| blue jeans cable? They are decent Entry level cables,not much more .Wireworld , Audioquest are good ,Kimber8tc is a classic .supra makes excellent bang for the buck for under $500 for some very good speaker cables, and interconnects very wellpriced.madisound sells... | |
| Mundorf MKP Audiophiler or ClarityCap ESA ? I spoke with Clarity , their new Copper lattice work connections are not a Copper coating that will corrode aluminum ,their engineers laughed when 8 told then that . It is a Copper lattice work.they spend 18 months testing and listening .do you re... | |
| Mills MRA two types of different brand ? The old Mills have a slightly better top end ,due to the silver platedcaps.the newer ones are by no means dull just less promenant in the upper treble the new ones seem a bit fuller ,rounder in the Bass like a tube amp and nice full mids depending... |