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| Speaker suggestions under 4k Your very best value is in a good DIY loudspeaker project, or possibly finding a well-made DIY set used. Don’t turn your nose up at DIY. Many of the designs are done by the best audio engineers on the planet and are just as good as the best commer... | |
| Speaker upgrade for classical music I've never liked Polk Audio loudspeakers. Big cabinets stuffed to the gills with cheap drivers and sold for cheap. They look good, but...Your very best value is in a good DIY loudspeaker project, or possibly finding a well-made DIY set used. D... | |
| Does Anyone Think CD is Better Than Vinyl/Analog? Oh boy...I have about a dozen recordings in both vinyl and digital. There things about each medium I like better than the other, so I would say that neither is superior. They are different.The big downside to vinyl is that it is expensive to get... | |
| Budget tower speakers that rock! I hope you're ready for some blasphemy. For under $1000, the very best value for playing rock 'n roll at level are a good set of PA loudspeakers. I like Bag End best. | |
| For the Audiophile with a taste for good design(looks)....a question. I run custom made Linkwitz Orion loudspeakers. The stock design is a kind of Danish Modern look and I live in a 100 year old Craftsman bungalow, so I had them custom made in a Mission style. They look terrific and sound awesome.https://systems.... | |
| Music streamers There is NO difference between a streamer and a laptop. That's the beauty of digital audio. Bits is bits. There is so very much stupid BS out there. Money spent on USB cables and the like is money wasted. Transfer of digital information eithe... | |
| I Was Considering Active, Then I Watched This ... OK folks. Listen up. Here’s WHY active crossovers are so very much better than passive. A single loudspeaker driver is an inductor, and provides a frequency dependent, reactive load to an amplifier. Looking at the image here, the blue line on the ... | |
| Do chinese tube preamp/amp clones interest you? If cost is a big issue for you and you'd like something truly hi-end, build the SP14 kit from VTA. The full kit cost is $1099 and they have excellent tech support. The well received Don Sachs preamp, which sells for about $2500 new, is just the ... | |
| Speaker Audition With your price range, you can readily afford the Dutch & Dutch 8c loudspeaker system at $12k. Yeah. I know. You've got twice that much burning in your pocket, just wanting to be spent. You owe it to yourself to go find someone who can de... | |
| Speakers good for close to wall placement I will echo the recommendation to seriously consider the Larsen loudspeakers. They are the only loudspeaker I've ever heard that are engineered to be put up, flat against a wall. Doing so makes them much more furniture and decoration friendly, i... | |
| Where are the cheap home streamers? As others here have said, laptop with a USB connection to a DAC is the way to go. I've been doing this for 10 years now. You can make it cheaper by snagging a used laptop off of Craigslist for about $150, wiping Windows and instead loading Ubun... | |
| Preamp recommendation There a couple of Don Sachs tube preamps on the used market at just under $2000. They retail new for about $2500. They’re based on the Aikido circuit boards from VTA. You can build the same preamp, as a kit, but in a very plain case, for as little... | |
| Used Speaker in the 15k range If you like the JA Perspective 2, you should know that you SEAS has a kit (Thor) you can build, for about $2500, which is roughly the equal of the JA Perspective 2, which uses stock SEAS drivers. In fact, the THOR uses bass drivers which a bit la... | |
| Amplifier upgrade advice under $2000 Save yourself some money and get one of these amps.Sumo AndromedaBryston 4BOr if you're brave (but probably you aren't), you could build a pair of VTA M125 monoblock tube amps (120 watts each). | |
| Used Speaker in the 15k range Get this set.Avalon Eidolon Diamond |