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    All New Clarisys Audio Minuet Loudspeakers !

    Thanks for the explanation!
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    All New Clarisys Audio Minuet Loudspeakers !

    I've read your impressions about the Minuet in your website, very nicely written. Couldn't help but notice that you wrote: "More so than most loudspeakers I’ve heard, the Minuets sound amazingly coherent. If you play any type of instrument, it will have the same harmonics over the entire...
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    Munich show 2023 Hifideluxe and MOC .

    There's no replacement for displacement. Same with higher efficiency/sensitivity and low distortion. No small speaker is high end, regardless of price. I agree with @Taiko Audio and @bonzo75, the only progress made is in materials, downsizing and cosmetics. I really like what Lawrence Dickie...
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    Munich show 2023 Hifideluxe and MOC .

    Thanks! Very interesting, do you guys know about the woofer size and the price (and if the enclosure is ported or sealed)? Must sound very good, seems very well designed at first glance. The idea of mating the small Scanspeak midrange to the horn is great IMO. Oh and the Crystal Cable speakers...
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    Munich show 2023 Hifideluxe and MOC .

    Any info on this new Cessaro speaker?
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    Munich show 2023 Hifideluxe and MOC .

    This new speaker by Cyrstal Cable is VERY interesting: https://crystalcable.com/minissimo-forte/ https://6moons.com/industry_articles/dawid-does-munich-2023/2/ TL;DR: it has a passive-active crossover, meaning it uses a buffer stage that replaces plenty of crossover parts (yet the speakers...
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    Thorens New TT

    Looks good, nice to see an official Reference successor. The most similar would be the discontinued Rolf Kelch Reference 2 and is extremely rare, barely pops up in the used market. The Rolf Kelch Reference 2 looks better tho.
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    How do you know what you want from your audio system?

    No comments, as it will only lead to a 303930339 page long discussion about semantics, like the ones you had with DDK.
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    How do you know what you want from your audio system?

    Lol realized now it says 10 foot and not 10 inches, good catch! Gotta pay more attention next time, being used to the metric system and writing in inches/feet is very confusing lmao
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    How do you know what you want from your audio system?

    No such a thing as reasonably priced and good analog setup IMO, unless you understand 30-40k eur for phono+tonearm+cartridge+turntable (even second hand prices) as reasonably cheap. To clarify, I do not see lightweight turntables, DC motors with negative feedback, and 12a_7 family tubes non...
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    How do you know what you want from your audio system?

    Don't get me wrong, there's very thin, lifeless sounding digital out there, and very thick, smooth, warm sounding analog. But saying all digital is acrylics and all analog is oil painting is a very broad generalization IMO. There's plenty of shrill, thin sounding analog setups out there, just...
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    How do you know what you want from your audio system?

    There's no such a thing as a digital or analog sound. Analog setups sound vastly different among each other, and dacs too. I understand the analogy but I do not agree, unless we are talking about mid fi.
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    How do you know what you want from your audio system?

    True. When I listened to a good sounding DAC, I just enjoyed music and didn't think about anything else. Sure, a setup with the AS2000, top tier tonearm + cartridge + custom tube phono stage playing a 100% analog recorded and mastered, first press pristine record would sound much better side by...
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    How do you know what you want from your audio system?

    Thanks for sharing your journey with me! IMO, you have to take two things into account: 1) Transformers > tubes. The quality of the transformers and the topology used are way more important than the tubes. For example, GM70 tubes can make up to 32 watts in class A1, if you use them at 8 watts...
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    All New Yamaha NS 5000 Speakers..... World-Beaters ?

    I absolutely adore that they used the same material to build all the drivers, so the tonality remains coherent in the entire frequency range. All manufacturers that want to build a coherent sounding multi way speaker should do this, no excuses other than lack of budget for comissioning the...

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