Golden Earring wrote: > Hi Antonio! > > I fully concur with Mynb's last 2 posts & would simply note that the > stand-mount style of loudspeaker which I have suggested for your room > tend to be simple 2-way designs, usually with equally simple passive > crossovers which present a relatively benign load for the amplifier. > > So go listen to loudspeakers, & allocate the majority of your budget to > them: any halfway competent modern amplifier design (i.e. NOT expensive) > should be able to drive them satisfactorily. > > Don't forget to damp out your piano, as recommended earlier, while > you're quaffing the Ricard Cinquante Et Un (SO much better than Pernod, > lol) & indulging your taste for contemporary music... > > Dave :cool:
Hi Dave, By "2-way designs" do you mean something like yours, the B&W 805S ? with or without subwoofer ? At the moment, I have in this room a pair of little Audioengine A2, they're the speakers I take with me when I leave my home for some time, and a Audioengine S8 subwoofer that I added recently. I like very much the A2, for their nice sound for the size, but a bit disappointed by the S8, at too low volume I don't hear it, at too high volume it's boomy. I'm not sure that I like very much subwoofers actually. The Ricard 51 is a good drink for the aperitif, specially in summer, with some ice cubes, sitted at a Café Terrace or with friends at home. When I try to have some quiet time at home, I rather have a good rum from venezuela or an old Cognac ;) , But my origins are Portuguese (please don't mention the paella, it's spanish) so I should have a vintage porto, except that porto wine is not a drink for aperitif or for the evening, it's a dessert wine. Hum, not so simple. As for my taste in music, I think you're asking what it is, and certainly it has its importance for choosing the gears, with the time it has changed, it's true I liked very much contemporary music when Stevie Wonder, the Pink Floyd, Bob Marley, the Dire straits or David Bowie were contemporary, now I still love them but I don't usually like the contemporary music, too much synthesizers pretending they're real instruments. I prefer jazz: Piano, Guitar, Organ, classic or modern jazz, everything except the female vocal jazz (really too boring), some blues, and I don't dislike some modern artists like Dave Matthews (with Tim Reynolds, I really love), John Mayer and a few others... To continue with the clichés, I don't like Edith Piaf, but I like Amalia Rodrigues (it's a "fado", the typical portuguese music, singer). Thanks a lot, your posts are very funny ! (and instructive of course) Antoniop LMS 7.9.0 on Linux Mageia 5 and RPI 3 1 SB3, 2 radio, 1 touch Plugins : Trackstat, Smartmix, MusicIP, ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Antoniop's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107946
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