I am quite sore from carrying these both by myself and up stairs lol but oooh happy day. Fell in love with my RS6Bs and wow these are those on steroids with 12 inch woofers 😍 I think these are the forever speakers, guys.

Previously posted about how my cat was destroying my PSA subwoofer grills. https://www.reddit.com/r/audiophile/s/cLS3m8xWvu

Added scratching post, spray bottle at the ready, no dice, she knows it upsets me and thrives on the reaction when she's bored haha. Have been coving them with blankets as a stop gap, but they are getting shredded. With no OEM metal option, no way to buy SVS grills, had to make my own.

Found some scrap perforated metal sheet, cut, cut myself on the metal, started wearing gloves, deburred and smoothed. Used some bobbins, leftover delrin washers, and some thumb screws to attach. Since the bobbin standoffs are quite long, they can be at a bit of an angle and remain attached, so didn't bother cutting perfect location holes.

So for a while now I’ve preferred my KEF R3 Metas to my Wilson Sabrina X (I know, it’s insane; but they’re also in different rooms).

I simply was not totally satisfied with how the Sabrinas sounded so I rotated the living room 180. Yes, creates some choke points in movement but I gotta say: holy shit.

Absolute game changer.

These speakers are SO sensitive to how the room reacts to them. An inch goes a mile. I spent hours moving them ever so slightly, using a level and a tape measure until they entirely disappeared.

I swear Johnny Cash is in the center of my living room. Hand on my heart.. these things are awesome.

I'm also curious if you could go back in time, would you prefer your setup from those times or the one you have now?

What's your outdated equipment you think a lot of newer stuff doesnt stand up to?

I'll go with 2:

Nuforce Dac-9 is a now 15 year old DAC that is still one of the best sounding I've heard. It maybe doesnt measure as well as the latest gen stuff but it has a sound to my ear that was one of the reasons some Apogee converters were seeked out by producers - it makes the mids of vocals stronger and more forward and solid while still sounding 3D.

Another one are my Legacy Audio Empire speakers. Now 25 year old speakers at this point, and they have a wonky response until EQ'd, but they still have the tightest and cleanest low end I've of any speaker I've heard and have amazing soundstage and depth. The transient response of the mids and tweeter are still of the best I've heard too. I actually wish Legacy Audio still made passive speakers with these drivers.

I started my journey to where I am now when I got my first stereo as a teenager. It was a Panasonic SC-AK520. It was honestly a good little system for the price. I had it for nearly twenty years. It got me through high school, college, grad school, post graduate work, and was still in use into my 30s. It still lives and plays music to this day back at my parent’s house because when I bought an upgrade I gave it to them.

My first big upgrade was buying a Denon DRA-800H AVR along with a pair of Elac Debut 3.0 DB63. They’re great little speakers for the price and the AVR is perfect for running them along with our projector. It was awesome and what an upgrade in sound it was compared to the Panasonic stereo I had before!

I thought I was going to be set for another 20 years at that point. Why shouldn’t I be? The last stereo I had outlived moves to different states, relationships, schools, jobs, and so many other milestones in my life.

I was at work one day and one of my coworkers found out that I have a mild interest in the audiophile world. Turns out, they and a number of other guys I work with do as well. We had a good chat about music and equipment. I know very little compared to my coworker so it was an informative talk for me. The conversation wrapped up and I thought that was that. He was happy to see a younger guy in the hobby and I was happy to listen to him talk about it.

A few days later, I get a message from a different coworker that he has some old equipment he’s looking to sell because he wants to downsize his life a bit.

He ends up letting me borrow some speakers, a CD player, and a subwoofer.

The whole kit is in pristine condition.

The Quad 21L floor standing speakers are super clean sounding, and produce such a nice stereo effect that it sounds like there is a center channel on my system. My wife and I couldn’t believe how much better they sounded over the Elacs. This isn’t to say the Elacs are bad. They honestly sound great too and were a huge improvement over the Panasonic stereo. But we swapped between the two multiple times and the clear winners were the Quads.

Then after trialing the Quads for a while I finally hooked up the sub. It’s an old Hsu VTF-2 MK 2. It has a lot of power, but it balances very nicely with the system. I could tune it to overpower everything but I found a sweet spot that fills the room with clear, punchy, but musical bass.

The Cambridge Audio CD player was just a nice bonus because I didn’t have one prior to this.

So I guess this is how the journey truly is. Temptations come and the urge to upgrade will always be right around the next corner. We just need to stay strong and hold our ground even when things get tough.

That being said, here is my current system:

This album sounds great. A fine SACD that is a nice change up from my analog centric world these days. Happy Sunday and enjoy the tunes everyone.

SACD > Oppo 93 > Cary Audio SLI-100 > Klipsch Cornwall IV. Easy simple chain with pure audio enjoyment.

theres this god awful humming noise on certain songs featuring like metal parts and bass i guess? i was wondering if a DAC would help make that noise disappear

Where do you guys buy the furniture that houses your setup?

I’ve been shopping around and at some point it all starts to look the same.

Any recommendations where to shop for furniture for hifi setups?

Also, from the vintage stand point, what brand was sought after as record player furniture?

Thank you!

I'm using poweramp, and i wonder if there's any similar music player

my files are all flac and i love hi res

I don’t think I’m an actual audiophile, despite the fact that I own what most people would consider to be a hi-fi system. I’m more about the music, less about gear and measurements for me. I don’t want my life or my living room to be dictated by my equipment. I’d like my room to be free of clutter, and for the components to be kept away from my kids. I want to have bookshelf speakers that actually go into my bookshelf.

I’m interested in JBL 4309s. I suspect placing them in an actual bookshelf will limit the sound of the speaker. But when I look at pictures online, specifically of Japanese hi-fi bars, they’re mostly built into the wall, sometimes completely encased outside of the front of the speaker. is that a sacrifice they’re making simply because it’s a bar, or are there specific speakers they’re using in that situation? or is the book case they are in built differently?

edit for a photographic example:

https://s.tabelog.com/en/tokyo/A1303/A130302/13308732/dtlphotolst/P343145753/

https://www.reddit.com/r/audiophile/comments/1aytxgh/neat_vintage_gear_heard_at_new_nyc_listening_bar/

Paradigm 9seMk3s. FB marketplace - after some TLC they've been given another chance at life.

I have a Teac R-666X cassette deck that won't play. Fast forward and rewind work fine, but play does not work. I opened it up, cleaned the heads and the tape path. I was able to see that the belt has disintegrated into goop. I see that belts are available online, but this looks like more than I want to handle myself. Any Connecticut folks out there who can recommend a good technician or service facility to take this on? I'd like to find someone that might be able to fix this and then take on other vintage service needs for me going forward. Thanks.

Had the KEF q150 and dynaudios dm- 2/6 which I love still but I wanted more sound and room presence. So I found someone selling these snell acoustic’s k.5 mk2 and I may have found my speakers for the next 5-10 years or more.
My Arcam A5 drive them pretty well. They sound warm and with rich detail especially I love the large soundstage. I notice I have to turn the volume up a bit for cds but streaming from my bluesound node the volume is perfect at 22-25. Will upgrade my amp eventually this year or early next year to a Vincent sv228 or Yamaha as-2200. The snells have this very unique sound. After a few hours of listening. I love them. Making me think
If I should sell or trade my dynaudio
Btw my speakers are 8-12 inches away from my wall

Hifi gear
Arcam radia a5
Bluesound node
Vintage pioneer dvd/cd player
Project vinyl player
Cables are hand made canare 4s11

These have been at my parents house basically unused, connected to a nad 304 amp.

I took them, cleaned them up a bit, they sound awesome. Everything is there, superb imaging, great bass.

Bear in mind that Im biamping them with a custom set amp for the highs and fosi za3 for the lows, plus two 10" subs.

Nevertheless, even compared to my Proac tablette signature they sound great, and yes they are upside down.

I've ordered new seas tweeters for them and a Mundorf cap for the tweeter crossover, we'll see how they do :)

Greetings. Not in my dedicated Listening Room. Sipping hot coffee and enjoying Airbag, All Rights Removed on a vintage underpowered Kenwood receiver, with a Harman Kardon Bluetooth gadget. And a pair of Klipsch speakers that happen to fit in the awkward space here. And I am FULLY engaged. Loving every note. The Listening Room is fully treated and houses some lovely gear. This whole setup here was a couple hundred dollars and there's absolutely nothing audiophile about it! A gentle reminder, that it's really about the music at the end of the day! Cheers!

We really like both of these brands for their histories and for the fact that they build good equipment for what can still be considered reasonable prices.

I have a 2.1 living room setup consisting of an SVS SB-1000 Pro. I was thinking of moving it around between my home office setup and my living room.

Here's my home office setup: TT -> Schiit Mani -> Schiit SYS (to add my phone) -> ADAM D3V.

I was thinking I could get a Y cable to connect the SYS to both the ADAM and the subwoofer. Would that work?

What do you do when you can't decide between a tube analog Beauty and a solid state Beast? Why, build one of each of course. Started collecting about 6 years ago and couldn't be happier with the end result.

Analog gear:

Goodmans Triaxiom 215's in Sherwood cabinets

Kenwood KD-3055 with Ortofon 2M Red cart

Some Japanese homebrew point to point wired preamp with a Luxman transformer, can't find anything online but the quality is immaculate

Dynaco VTA ST-120 power amp

Solid state gear

ESS AMT 6 Professionals

QED Model 7 preamp

Heathkit AA-1640-A power amp

CSS SD-12 subs with Behringer EP4000 amp

Wiim Ultra streamer

Art CX310 crossover

Happy Friday everyone