tomic601
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| Speaker help under $2,500 Eminent freakishly good mid and large detailed soundstage...bass not the best integrated but very good for $used pair of Steen 3 a sig or new 2 sigs...need 100 watts but well integrated....Quad ESL 63 on great stands may also suprise you.Maggies ... | |
| Another Best sounding room left out Robert Taylor of Taylor House in NC..i think retired. lugged a van load of stuff to Charleston, optimized 5a in a very big room and sold me ARC REF 5 SE....awesome guy..this is a people hobby | |
| Custom Bozak Loud Speakers grew up with B-305...saw a few Bozaks but never any with a factory super tweeter..they did have a sound reinforcement line. Typically smaller driver line arrays..how do the sound ? | |
| Another Best sounding room Bruce has best sounding 5a Carbons setup i have heard and i think i have heard them at 5 or 6 dealers now.IMO the long running, long term relationship guys are the best. Bruce at Unlimited in San D, Randy at Optimal in Santa Monica, Curtiss ( now ... | |
| Conflicting Mcintosh info how does it sound ? | |
| Ayre Codex rather long FB exchange w Charlie..i asked when R series DAC ? His reply was improvements to Codex will yield a killer 5 series DAC...inferred that it might already be better than Q series..my read of it anyway.. | |
| Vandersteen 4 my black Friday wanderings at stereo stores...found a pair of rebuilt model 4 at Hawthornes in Seattle....under a grand...they are big and heavy..i did not listen to them..what a blast from past that place is.. | |
| Incredible review of Vandersteen 7 mkII in... moved all the various Wall-Wart powered digital stuff : airport , network switch, RAID drive for server and server over to dedicated Furman power conditioner...pre and dac on a dedicated circuit, amp another, subs on another, digital on another...... | |
| What's a contender to an Audio Reference 5 SE? Bo1972we are in golden age of quality and choice..never have we had such great selection of caps, res, transformers, wire, etc in components and a wide variety of price points. REF 5 SE blows away my SP-6 of old..you might be right about the kids ... | |
| Vandersteen 5Aa Carbon--any 5a owner's opinions? good points..sounds like YOU are getting incredible performance out of your system..which is WHY we do this.my room is HIGHLY irregular with 3 large and unequal openings, sloped ceiling in two directions peak 20' with a lot of natural diffusion. t... | |
| Quatro Wood CT VS. 5A's keep the Vettemy 5 a in rosewood were Randys personal pair from his home.He does get excellent sound and knows his stuff. I always stop by there in my travels..but I am overdue for a visit... | |
| Vandersteen 5Aa Carbon--any 5a owner's opinions? overly flat at least w just eleven bands of EQ under 120 HZ sounds dull and lifeless....so says the manual, Richard and for grins I tried it w 5 a..true enuf dialing it in the last .5 DB was lackluster....no real urge to mess w 7. ' s yet..enjoyin... | |
| Quatro Wood CT VS. 5A's on the question of tweeters from a how are they made point of questioning just call Richard - he answers the phone....Cant say I have heard all three side by side in same room w same front end. The 5 a Carbons currently for sale on Agon seem like ... | |
| Vandersteen 4 neat to see somebody pushing to keep this speaker on an improvement path. Richard answers the phone.I had 3 a sig but in a smaller room. Big SS mac poweramp had viselike grip on low end.have you tried soundanchors on your 4's ?probably need to mod... | |
| What vintage speaker might you use today Bozak - dad had half concert grands..had to sit on floor for image..Dayton WrightTympaniESLearly TheilFreid yes Bud..i still have the Mac MX 110 Z and a 240 but driving a pair in Linn Sarahshould have kept the ESL..omg what a sweet midrange... |