deepak

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I think everyone meant movies when they were talking about Blu-Ray... But I agree two channel for music.

For movies, unless the movie has a sweet two channel mix (Star Wars laserdisc) surround sound ftw!

Blu-ray with 7.2 :drool:

Peculiar... I've heard them on some very nice balanced amps (would it be comparable to push-pull from a speaker amp? There's no way the drivers are getting more than 400 mw?) and they improve. Not an earth shattering improvement so if you didn't like the HD650 to start off with I didnt think the improvements were enough to warrant a change of opinion...

Oh my god postjack is going to be cooler than me, plan failed If only I didn't need this Treo for its pharm software

Viking Quest

Thread locking privileges was a bit too much freedom for the plebians

Don't get an iphone.

New title ftw

Razor extended. 18 minutes of extra footage better be worth it BSG season 3 gag reel: (does contain spoilers) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6307683077762423268&q=bsg+season+3+gag&total=6&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

I will make it my new year's resolution to finish Deadwood this year. Still in the fourth or fifth episode of season one.

I'm hoping to hear the CS2.3 before the end of this year. If they can perform close to the CS2.4 then I'd be perfectly happy with them until I had my house situation sorted and upgrade to the Duos from there. One thing is for sure the CS2.4 could rock out

Certainly a very good looking amp. Thanks for the impressions.

I've only had the 90 and 120 in bottle. Liked them both. The 120 is oner of the sweeter beers I've had, almost like sugarcane sugar. The 120 is $9 a bottle at the Mass packies, my friend brought up 10 bottles

I had the Dogfish 120 on New Years. Out of 10 plus people that tried it my friend (that bought it) and I were the only ones that liked it

Marc I appreciate the feedback, I will definitely try and hear the Quatros. edit: do you have any impressions of the CS2.3?

You're not supposed to admit being a MoT, that ruins the fun

MoT

I got to hear a pair of these at a nearby hifi dealer today. Associated equipment: Esoteric CDP (looks like the SA-60, I forgot to take down the model) Anthem D6 (surround processor acting as preamp) Anthem Statement P2 power amp Thiel CS2.4 in standard finish, grills on. It took me about 15 minutes to get used to the presentation. I was sitting about 10 feet away in a 22x18 room, no real room treatments from what I saw. Anybody local to MA/NH it was at Ensemble hifi in the middle showroom. In this room I preferred the speakers facing forward. At first I wasn't too impressed with them, but like I said after I got adjusted to their presentation I started to like them. They're definitely audiophile speakers in that they are brutally revealing of poor recordings. They're also slightly tipped up in the treble, I suspect a tube preamp or power amp would have helped a lot. Imaging on them was fantastic, forward mixes like guitars and vocals sounded very holographic just like the Avantgarde Duos. However when listening to even well mastered rock cymbal crashes where a bit too forward and splashy. There was also a bit of sibilance on a few Jane Moneheit tracks. They handled classical music with ease (but on Duel of the Fates, didn't make tympani hits sound real enough). Both my NIN test tracks off The Fragile sounded fantastic and the speakers didn't fart out and give up during Just Like You Imagined or The Fragile (track). Solo violin, acoustic guitar, sitar timbre and "palpability" (yeah, yeah) was just fantastic. These speakers can keep up with complex passages and are appropriately fast when the music picks up. Wonderful midrange on them as well, not dry or colored. However I noticed there was virtually no sub-bass extension at all, the speakers were about 2.5 feet from the back walls. The dealer said they measured flat in their room, but no mention of the bass. So aside from the poor bass extension and brighter presentation no other glaring flaws. Both of which should be fixable. And Jacob says the bass on his pair are great, so I suspect it was something with this setup. Call this a compliment or a flaw IMO these are the AKG K1000 of speakers. Maybe the AKG K701, but the midrange is too dry on the 701. So that might read a bit harsh, but I really enjoyed them. I feel I have enough experience to rank what I've heard at this point so here goes: Avantgarde Duo - Thiel CS2.4 / Wilson WATT Puppy System 8 Wilson WATT Puppy System 7 - Martin Logan Summit B&W 802D - Edgarhorn Titan Martin Logan Purity B&W 703 Magnepan 1.6QR Cain and Cain Abbey / JBL ND310 (currently own) - So I do think highly of the Thiels to place them on the same level as a pair of $25000 speakers. I do need to hear the WPS8 again now that I have a bit more experience. I omitted any speakers I haven't spent enough time with that I could write anything useful about. ~~~~ Caveat ~~~~ all speakers where used in systems with varying electronics behind them and in different settings.

300B monoblocks, WE300B driven by ECC99, tube rectified psu, Lundahl iron Yeah SET amps that he had custom built. They are supposed to be tricky to setup but from what I understand the room makes less of a difference on the sound than traditional box speakers.

You meant to add Beta Deuce Deux in that sentence

It could be one of those "easter egg" sort of things. The designer leaving his mark, it's cool

I would be at Gunstock right now if I wasn't stuck with the car :'(

Happy new year Head-Casers!