twoleftears
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| *WHITE PAPER* The Sound of Music - How & Why the Speaker Cable Matters Silversmith Fidelium are garnering some excellent reviews.Until today I'd never heard of Townsend Isolda. | |
| New speakers. New room. Have a look at Altec Lansing Granada's. | |
| How it works! From a common man. In my end is my beginning.A merry ouroboros to all. | |
| Whats your favourite track to play to the non hi-fi visitor? Allegri, Miserere, Tallis Scholars.Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpzdB0G3TJUA little into the performance you will see that there are three distinct groups of singers, in different places around the church.On a good system, the c... | |
| $10K Budget for Speakers: Martin Logan Masterpiece vs Tannoy You should be looking at Spatial speakers. Several options under 10K. | |
| Speaker Positioning Bosch laser measure, inexpensive model. You can check the exact distance between you and the two speakers, and you don't need someone to hold the other end of the tape measure. | |
| What sends shivers down your spine when you play it on your system? Horrors! Yes, typo, Mahler 5. Must proof-read more carefully...@newbee If you don't already have it, the 2CD expanded version of Live at Blues Alley entitled Nightbird, to me sounds even better than the original release, plus there's a bunch of... | |
| Questions that Never Die Why are most answers to every thread on Audiogon off-topic? | |
| Questions that Never Die How many watts are enough?Copper vs. silver?Spikes, footers, or nothing at all?Best filler for stands for standmounts?Best awg gauge for speaker cables?Power conditioning or straight into the wall?And on and on... | |
| What sends shivers down your spine when you play it on your system? The Adagietto from Mahler's 6th. | |
| Is the ideal multi-way a 3-way with limited bass? It's much more about the size of the listening room than the size of the woofer(s). As you've got two variables in play, I don't see how you can arrive at any firm general conclusion. Rather you'd have to say, for a room of X size, Y size, etc. | |
| More power for moderate listening levels? As per Stereophile: XA25 80 watts into 8 ohms; XA30.8 130 watts into 8 ohms; and you can go up from there. | |
| As Good as a Mohican... But Used. The Hegel, Bryston, and Marantz will all be good, but will have different sonic presentations.The BCD-3 will be strictly neutral. Never heard the Mohican but odds are it will be close. The Marantz will be a little warmer. A lot of Audiogon memb... | |
| More power for moderate listening levels? @atmasphere Here's Stereophile's test of the Harbeth SLH5 plus.https://www.stereophile.com/content/harbeth-super-hl5plus-loudspeaker-measurements It drops to 6 ohms at one point, and just below 6 ohms at another point. But for much of the range i... | |
| U-Haul Small Shipping Boxes for vinyl In movers' terminology what you need are "book boxes". If you have a lot of vinyl, they're cheaper from some generic or wholesale outlet. However, they are sized for standard LPs. The strength of a packed box is predicated on it being filled to ... |