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| Vandersteen 2CE Signature III — video review on YouTube by Steve Guttenberg (1/15/2023) I do know that MY hearing (at age 65) at high frequencies has been rolled off! I can hear maybe to 12,000 Hertz now. So I laugh when I see speakers that tout specs of 30,000 HZ frequency extension. What’s the point? Give me amazing performance bet... | |
| Vandersteen 2CE Signature III — video review on YouTube by Steve Guttenberg (1/15/2023) "If he said something negative it would make people sit up like the dead in a horror film." LOL! | |
| Vandersteen 2CE Signature III — video review on YouTube by Steve Guttenberg (1/15/2023) gdnrbob Roger that on the MBLs, though the "affordable one", which is $14k, is a bit shy on bass. I've heard the Linkwitz, which is similar, at a show and the soundstage was almost 360 degrees. Eerie! You have to bring them WAY out in the room th... | |
| Vandersteen 2CE Signature III — video review on YouTube by Steve Guttenberg (1/15/2023) I wouldn't consider myself a fanboy, just resistant to change. 😎 I've heard other excellent speakers I like at hi-fi shows, and read the hi-fi magazines, but I can't afford to "scratch the itch" and make frequent changes like some people seem to ... | |
| Don’t buy used McCormack DNA 1990s amps If anyone has a dead McCormack DNA-1 (the original one, not from the Conrad-Johnson era), I will pay cash for a reasonable/fair selling price ($500?)! I need the housing/chassis for a rebuild by SMc. I should never have sold mine to SMc when it di... | |
| Don’t buy used McCormack DNA 1990s amps Absolutely correct, soix, and I am excited to hear how you like your rebuild! I had a DNA-1 Deluxe for 20 years, loved it, and then it died suddenly. Board and/or caps failed. I had been in discussion for several years with Steve Mc and Patrick a... | |
| RIP Glenn Croft RIP "RIP Glenn Croft The man I have looked-up to the most in my life has suddenly died. He had many rare qualities and what he stood for spoke volumes to me. In some ways he combined those rare British strengths of being inventive, stoical, lo... | |
| Candidates for best speakers in the $2000-5000 market So many good speakers, so little money, room, or time to own them all. I’ll vote for what I own: Vandersteen 2CE Signature IIIs, a true classic and great buy. Your spousal unit may not like the looks with the black sock, and if I replace mine I wi... | |
| Open Baffle Experience Obituary. I heard his open baffle speakers ( https://www.linkwitzlab.com/LX521/LX521_4.htm ) at the Seattle audio festival last summer and was impressed. | |
| Pontus ii and Hi Res If you use Roon, it does the first MQA unfold, I recall, so you'd get get benefit even if your DAC doesn't decode MQA. | |
| Sugden Masterclass LA4 vs LTA MicroZOTL FWIW, LTA is having a 15% off sale for the month of November, iirc. | |
| For Vandersteen owners & lovers: Which other brands do you like? tomic601 😂 | |
| For Vandersteen owners & lovers: Which other brands do you like? There are other sub manufacturers out there, but Vandersteen subs have shown they will work for decades without issue. Now if I can only manage to last for another decade or two. 😳 If I get new Treo CTs at my age (65) I'll write them into my wi... | |
| For Vandersteen owners & lovers: Which other brands do you like? longbowbbs I have read very good things about the DeVores—congratulations! I love the idea of a high sensitivity >93db speaker (the Stenheim Alumine is another one that caught my eye), and pairing them with something like a Linear Tube Audio i... | |
| Do speaker cables really make a difference ? Back in the days of yore everybody used lamp cord - and nobody complained! Back in the days of yore, people played 78-rpm records on their Victrolas and nobody complained! I traded mine in for an 8-track for my Edsel! 😁 |