twoleftears
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| Proac K6 Signature, Sonus Faber Amati Tradition,Verity Audio Amadis, Kharma DB-9 Have you listened to the Spendor Classic 100? I imagine the 200 will have a very similar sonic signature, just with a bit more bass extension and power handling. The Classic 100 already goes lower than some of your listed options. | |
| Need definitions of: Dark; Warm; and Bright Errr, Saussure 101.As atmasphere say, there needs to be a pretty broad consensus as to what a given word refers to, for speakers of a given language to communicate with each other. Obviously, meaning will still be fuzzy around the edges.When word... | |
| Proac K6 Signature, Sonus Faber Amati Tradition,Verity Audio Amadis, Kharma DB-9 Talk to Thomas R. Ratushny at New York Sound and Vision. He stocks three of those brands. | |
| After 50 years, I have finally found my destination amps... AGD Audions! I also have reached out to AGD and I am willing to buy their equipment and then pass judgement. Unlike others here. Maybe you included. Looking forward to hearing your report, once installed in your system. | |
| Bowers and Wilkins 800 Series Discontinued? There'll be a three-position setting for the treble: bright, shrill, and piercing. | |
| Manufacturers past their heyday Rowland must be selling much of their production abroad, as I don't see them having much market penetration in the U.S. | |
| After 50 years, I have finally found my destination amps... AGD Audions! As far as I can see, skypunk's a dedicated tube integrated enthusiast: Pathos Classic One Mk. III --> Raven Audio Blackhawk --> Audio Hungary Qualiton X200. | |
| Manufacturers past their heyday Just because a well-known company doesn't have as high as profile in the U.S. as it once had, doesn't necessarily mean that the company is faltering. Sometimes, simply, their primary markets shift overseas, and in those other countries they are h... | |
| Speaker fq range, bass, low bass, low mids, mids.upper mids etc Pure stream of consciousness.= James Joyce, reincarnated. | |
| Underwood HiFi Cables Before Equi=Core was bought out by Underwood, they were selling power cords that were revealed to be straight re-brands from China, available on Amazon. Back in the day, someone pointed it out in one of the threads about the company and the then ... | |
| What speaker has the best tweeter? Scanspeak Ultra tweeter.Made exclusively of silk from free-range silkworms fed on organic, non-GMO mulberry leaves. | |
| Speaker Questions and Recommendations It's going to be a bit of a challenge to find speakers significantly "better" than your current ones (which are very good), especially at the 6K point, even factoring in used.I second the advice of starting to explore what's out there. Bear in mi... | |
| Speaker Recommendation 40 watts with 90dB is just fine.Geez. For a while I was driving 86dB with a 60W integrated, just fine (though evidently not optimal).Oh, and my advice, avoid speaker brands beginning with T. | |
| Looking for a cable maker Triode Wire Labs makes all kinds of one-off custom cables. See their thread over on AudioCircle. | |
| What do we hear when we change the direction of a wire? I had the distinct impression that doogie was the return appearance of a A'gon poster from before, who had left or, err, been obliged to leave the site. I'm just not sure who. These "revenants" seem to be becoming more frequent. |