bassdude
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| Looking for SACD player............ Well... I would send my Sony to Modwright... only if... I intended to have him modify my Sony - which is well worthwhile.I would not send it to him only to replace the laser sled unit. You can buy one for about $50 on Amazon / eBay. I bought 2 N... | |
| Looking for SACD player............ I like the Sony SA-5400 ES SACD player a bit better than my Marantz SA-8001. It seems to have a bit better detailed resolution and clarity. The Marantz has a more rich, tube-like sound at the expense of a bit of detail and clarity. The reviews ... | |
| Best Small Floorstanding Speaker under $2K The Pure Audio Project Speakers have greater detailed resolution and clarity. As I note above - get on your PC with some ear buds and go to YouTube and find the various speakers and listen to them via your ear buds. You’ll quickly see how the soun... | |
| Best Small Floorstanding Speaker under $2K To understand what I mean... get on your laptop with some ear buds (Apple will do fine)... and... search YouTube for soundtracks of these speakers and you will see quite clearly what I mean. The speakers I note above will have far superior sound ... | |
| Best Small Floorstanding Speaker under $2K There are some superb alternatives in your price range - the best available in the approximate order would be:1. Pure Audio Project Open Baffle Speakers - Trio 15b (a bit above your price range, but sound as good as any speaker available no matte... | |
| Best Preamp - NO preamp... (?) Yes... the AR Ref preamps look like they're among the very best available. I've got the Ref 3 and Ref 5se... and... they are incredible - though, as I noted above, I am surprised at how good the Creek Passive Preamp sounds in comparison for a pit... | |
| Speakers sonically similar to Sonus Faber? Though they might be a bit too transparent, clear and detailed for your preference, the WaveTouch Audio Grand Tetons are about "as good as it gets" at any price / style of speaker.Many are selling their high priced / high-end, brand named speakers... | |
| Speakers in the 5-6K$ region & their components Well... yes... you can approximate the stellar sound of the WaveTouch Audio Grand Tetons with the GamuT Reference Series, or Nola’s, or PureAudio Project OB’s, or the top of the line Legacy’s, or certainly the Linkwitz Orion’s / LS521’s. But, noth... | |
| Speakers in the 5-6K$ region & their components "With all due respect" - this is all "such a load of BS!" It's the total design of the baffel, cabinet, drivers, and cross-over that makes the "sum of the parts" sing like nothing else... or... not. I absolutely... guarantee you... that if you t... | |
| Best Preamp - NO preamp... (?) It does, indeed, depend on each person's personal preference.I have both and use both active and passive preamps, at various times, depending upon the sound I'm seeking.I got a Creek OBH-21 Passive Preamp, primarily to use as a remote volume contr... | |
| Do we really need anything more than 8" woofer and 1" tweeter for medium size room? Yes - I not talking about HT movie watching bass or heavy rock bass - just jazz, blues, country, classical, r&b, acoustic bass.I really don't want my floors and walls to shake - just the sound of a live upright bass, or bass guitar, or live dr... | |
| Do we really need anything more than 8" woofer and 1" tweeter for medium size room? Well... you'd have to experience it to understand it. Yes - they do sound as good as virtually any of the full-range speakers out there. I've compared them. Read the reviews - people are replacing their Wilsons, Avantgardes, etc. with these. A... | |
| Do we really need anything more than 8" woofer and 1" tweeter for medium size room? I guess this is more of a designers thread than listeners thread. All I know is - I’m sitting here listening to some of the biggest, best sound I’ve ever heard coming from the diminutive Wavetouch Audio GT’s with a 5+ in. bass driver... and... the... | |
| Need Small Bookshelf Speakers With a Big Sound Too bad about the LS50’s they are superb! I rather like their appearance.But... another alternative... which also sounds way, way bigger than they are... and... superb in all respects, rivaling the "best there is," regardless of size (in a modest ... | |
| The most transparent speaker cable Where do you buy these?No such thing as final anything in high end audio. I have got rid of all my expensive speaker cable ( MIT, High Diamond 8, Auditorium 23 and Nordost) and replaced them with cheap Western Electric 16 gauge speaker cable. $1... |