whats your favorite speakers
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Topic: whats your favorite speakers
Posted By: DallasBryan
Subject: whats your favorite speakers
Date Posted: February 20 2005 at 05:41
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whats your favorite speaker?
why is 2 channel much better for music than surround sound. I own a set of Tannoy Edinburgs. I recommend Tannoy System 800 to anyone looking for a decent priced home speaker system. I recommend anyone looking for American speakers to look past the consumer stuff(Infinity, JBL, AR, Klipsch, Energy, Polk Audio, and Pinnacle) and find you someone that can supply you a listen to a set of ADS speakers(hold on do they not make floor standing speakers now? Looks like everything is in wall stuff now, I will find out) Whats your opionion on speakers? |
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Posted By: The-Bullet
Date Posted: February 20 2005 at 05:44
I have Quads. However, having not heard the majority of those listed above am uninformed enough to vote, however, that doesn't stop me voting in general elections ------------- 
"Why say it cannot be done.....they'd be better doing pop songs?" |
Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: February 20 2005 at 05:58
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Quad ESL and L's are great speakers!! If I had a set
of em Id vote for em too! |
Posted By: Beau Heem
Date Posted: February 20 2005 at 06:19
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Ah... Speakers... You guys might consider me a freak, but i tend to believe that music should listened through the medium (vinyl) it was supposed to be listened to when it first was published and through equipment (speakers) available at that time... The only decent pair of speakers I have found that have remained completely unharmed for the last 30+ years are Soviet (Estonian) made Radiotehnikas. Added a couple of treble speakers (constructed by my father in the late 60s) to "cultivate" the otherwise a little flat sound. Voilá, I feel super. Whenever listening to cd "quality" recordings, I couldn't care less about the equipment. Most cds I have listened to are sound-wise overproduced, making the choice of speakers irrelevant. Besides, I hardly ever listen to music... Cheers -Beau ------------- --No enemy but time-- |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: February 20 2005 at 06:52
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Beau Heem wrote:Posted By: mirco
Date Posted: February 20 2005 at 08:14
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Posted By: Beau Heem
Date Posted: February 20 2005 at 08:52
I quess an explanation is needed... in our world today, music (or at least what is referred to as such) is used as an integral part of everything. Our ears are filled with voices and noises that the vast majority of people simply ignore or, at least, don't react to. This noise is ever-present in all places, where any kind of commercial activity takes place or is supposed to take place. Every grocerie story, chemists, bar and restaurant use background music to "create atmosphere" or to bring new customers in. Such a development is ununderstandable and it makes my ears bleed. Try it yourselves; Try to buy a banana without having to listen to "music" Try to get to talk with your Internet Service Provider's Customer Service without having to listen to music Try to walk through your home town without having to listen to music This overuse of our ability to hear makes it impossible for me to listen to anything at home. i have to let my ears (and my brain) rest. When I actually feel like listening to something, I do. but I could not imagine putting a record on as background music, and listening to it passively, because that is what I (and all of you) have to do all the time. Cheers -Beau ------------- --No enemy but time-- |
Posted By: Radioactive Toy
Date Posted: February 20 2005 at 09:31
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the mission boxes from my brother.... DAMN! -------------  
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Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: February 20 2005 at 13:19
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I have a great system but a pair of pretty crappy TDL RTL 3s (woolly bass, fizzy treble) I'm in the process of trying to save for a pair of System Audio 1280s. These are really great Danish speakers - no wider than a CD case and with awesome bang for buck. For me they certainly beat the living crap of any similarlky priced B&Ws, which I find to boxy, with awful mids. The Sys Audios have a lovely soundstage, great dynamism and lovely bass and trebel. They do lack a little in the midrange and reverbs can sometimes be too haphazardly displayed but I think they're great value for money and look a treat too. The 1280s come in at about Euro1600 - well worth a listen. http://www.system-audio.com - www.system-audio.com
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Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: February 20 2005 at 13:40
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Im saving up for a pair of Tags or Wilson Benesch.
Amongst the finest loudspeakers at any price. Anyone lend me £15000 ?  ------------- 
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Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: February 20 2005 at 14:32
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I'm not an audiophile. I've never had a decent stereo and my speaker selection has usually been what I could scrounge together and make work with a pair of wire strippers and a soldering iron. I've been known to listen happily to an 8-track with a built-in mono speaker. Right now, most of my music comes through a crappy 2.1 set by the cheese-merchants at Creative...before that, my music was forced to go into a 100-watt P.A. amplifier by Radio Shack and a pair of beat-up Acoustic Research speakers (the corners of which were seriously torn and frayed from an aggresive tom cat continually shaprening his claws). However, if I were to pay exorbitantly for speakers, my money would go for a set of these cute little guys:
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 21 2005 at 03:28
There are quite a few interesting views on this subject in the 'Hi-Fi, Speakers And Vinyl' section...  ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 21 2005 at 06:12
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Ten years ago, I would've said Tannoy but they are not good price/quality ratio because the are too expensive. I have B & W in Holland and JM Lab in Brussels , old Pionneer speakers in my hideout in the Ardennes. I am not an audiophile nut but speakers are the most important part of a Hi-Fi. One should spend around 65 to 70% of his budget on speakers (and not forget the good cablings to those). I have not tried surround sound on my hi-fi but was not too impressed with that at a friend's house. |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: February 21 2005 at 07:58
Is that becasue they look like Tellytubbies - The Next Generation, James? ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: February 21 2005 at 08:04
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Mackie 824's for work and almost anything else for pleasure as long as it's bi-wired and bi-amped.
------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: L.V.X.
Date Posted: February 21 2005 at 11:12
| Voted Sonus because they are not overanalytical and have a rather pleasing warm tone, which reminds me of my Norwegian built Patos Lyric speakers. |
Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: February 22 2005 at 12:57
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INFINITY
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Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: February 22 2005 at 12:59
hi, i'm an adept of bi-amp (and bi-cable of course): tube for high (jolida), transistor for low (Bryston) "Transparent cables" rules! |