Thankyou melbguy1, I look forward to such a great read, Awsome!, BTW, I did tell Matt that your player was Australia power set-up, the rest is between the both of you, cheers.
Calvinj, Hi, I hope you all the best with your tara labs-The one interconnect sale, However, I believe you need to correct the info on the sale, meaning, There is no such cable that is ISM on Board and still can be used with some type of grounding station!, The cable leads and the pig tails that come out of the interconnect WILL NOT fit into a HFX grounding station,I know, I personnaly tried it with my Tara Labs The one with ISM on board interconnect, thus cannot be used, secondly, The ISM on board is the grounding station made onto the cable in the signal path of the cable, This is to roll off the resolution to accomadate bright systems that do not require top resolution, instead, musicality, anyway, I am only tring to help you, that is all, good luck my friend on your sale, cheers.
melbguy1, Hi, Do you use after market power cables?, I have a very good one on the cd-player, However, I am interested in going to listen or have Tara send me the new Tara labs Omega Evolution power cord, very exspensive, It's the new second from the Grandmaster Evolution power cord, I was thinking, If that power cord was a revelation in sound performance, I would send my amp back to Krell and have them hard wire the Tara Power cable on it, I asked if they would, they said yes, If that power cable is anything it is suppose to be, that would send my amp to extreme transparency and state of the art sound?, Do you believe hard wireing a power cord is better than the way of the IEC?, I was told that it is, less contacts, direct, just an idea I am counterplating to do over the next two years, thanks David.
yes, I have considered all that you have said Melbguy1 about the power cable on the power amp, I will say this, I may or may not one day get a better amp than the one I have, what I am saying david, I will not sale my amp ever, I have over $11,000.00 u.s.d. in a $14,000.00 amp, she will ride off into the sunset with me, whether she is on the main system, or a second system, LOL!, or in the closet, It's a collector to me anyway, David, you should see the stock power cord on this thing, it's huge to be stock, krell had a third party vendor make it, and you guessed it, the power cable is hard wired on the amp from the factory, the cx line is the only amp model in the history of krell they hard wired the power cable to the amp, that's all the cx stereo amps, and the mcx mono blocks as well, the stock power cord on my amp is 9'ft long!, sounds good to me, however I was thinking of some modds for long term, just an idea spinning in my head David, cheers.
Sts, all of the cables made by Tara Labs is the specs you provided here, speaker cables, all forms of cables they hand make all of them, their top shelf cable models take time to build, man, I would hate to be a cable builder of those top models, a huge under taking from what I have been told by Tara labs, Their is one model of interconnect that Tara Labs just introduced that is brand new to the market place, called The 0.3, it is the only interconnect in the history of Tara labs that uses a pure silver shielding in the cable, NOT the conductor, cheers.
Melbguy1, I have a $5,450.00 retail for 6ft, Cobalt power cord with Oyaide IEC and plug terminated at Tara Labs here now, my power cord is 3ft, that is on my vincent cd-s7 that has two 12ax7 tubes, one 12au7 tube, and a 6z4 recetifier tube in the power supply, It was a HUGE game changer on the entire sound of the system, being I only have the player and a amp for componets, cheers.
Hi Calvinj,what have you been listening to lately.? Hi there Keith,I'm quite impressed with the voodoo wall recepticle,its the first time I haven't had to use adapters for the USA powercords.In the last week,I've removed 3 adapters,a cheap wall recepticle,a old iec with a fuse in it,so things are coming along.I still would like to hear the gtx recpticles in action.
misternice, you have been quite busy on your system, I was not aware that voodoo made recepticles, I am glad that they are working to good effect for you, I bet your system sounds spectacular, I wish I could listen to it, On another subject that you and melbguy1 can weigh in on, Is the power grid there better than the u.s.?, I noticed you guys are not on 110.
Sts, I have no idea to be honest where they have their conductors made at, the term, made in the u.s.a to me means assembled and enginered here, I would call Tara labs, I do not believe they have any reason to not be honest with you, report back here with your findings, that is a topic I have never thought to ask Tara labs, BTW, I talk to them on a regular bassis, cheers.
Melbguy1, tell me about the vitus digital, I watched a youtube video of the intergrated amp you have, and the digital you getting, with the magico speakers you have, check it out, I believe they are useing different cables though?,
misternice, Hi, I talked to the service manager, Ray Mulchler of krell tuesday to just chat, really cool dude, when he found out about my musician past he was suprised, and so was I when he told me that he had 14 guitars, He is 59 and has been playing since he was 12 years old, He plays through a marshall stack with a marshall 50 watt tube head, I do not know if you know about electric guitar tube amps, 50 watts is loud as hell when you turn the juice up!, Ray knew alot of the heavy metal and many other other artist I know of from the past to present of other genres, when we had that conversation, The conversation made my week, awsome!
Great,records were the fashon way back when.Yes the stereo is getting more transparent,for under a couple of hundred dollars,not including the gtx.The rack and the electricals,I probably should have done first.Oh well, whats new.
If you look at the site closly, the occ is gone, it is a FACT that Tara labs makes their conductors 99.999999% mono crystal,hand polished,oxygen free,Eight nines copper!, It's still on the site, you cannot do nothing about it at all, Tara labs has the very Best conductors in the world!, why you cannot handle that is beyound me!, for your information, the only occ copper Tara Labs has ever used under license was a six nines occ copper that was bought years ago they do not use anymore in anything, you do not have a good source where your information is coming from, the reason being, Tara Labs is not going to tell you!, really, you are the cable manufactuer of Gabriel Gold cables, and you did not put a disclaimer on this thread saying so!, BTW, is a big booo, booo, not to be rude here, find something better to do than to try to prove Tara Labs is not legitime, you know, if you keep this up, Tara labs may contact you with a bad formal notice!
further more, what is funny here is Tara labs developed a copper conductor that is superior than the occ copper you are talking about, that is the sole reason they abandoned the use of occ copper conductors, if you do not believe me, read their site, and this will not be corrected, the use of the term occ was an error on the site by the site developer that is contracted by tara labs to build the web site!, Tara labs DID NOT make the mistake!, the only thing that was removed is the term occ, LOL!, everything else stayed!, see ya
where is your dis-claimer!, why are you on this thread?, take your conversation to tara labs, you are the owner and designer of gabriel Gold cables!, I am a consumer, not the tara labs company!, This thread is for the fans of tara labs, users world wide, and those who know nothing is better!
Thankyou Melbguy1, you are correct,I apoligize to the both of you, this thread is the peoples thread, you can talk about any cable, or componet,speakers, you like, thankyou for the Tara labs website correction of the term, occ, however, The fact is, Tara Labs has developed their conductors to be superior to the occ casting process as said on the web-site correction, Tara Labs conductors are mono crystal 99,999999% 8 nines, oxygen free, super annealed conductors, cheers.
Melbguy1, Thankyou for the great read on the vitus equipment you gave here, very interesting, The vitus equipment is very costly!, anyone that owns some of this equipment is fortunate!, my question is, Are there service centers in the u.s. for warranty repairs or normal repairs, up-grades, etc..?, If so, How many, and where, so the readers will know this product is supported here in the u.s.a., cheers.
Melbguy1, Hi, Thankyou for telling all of us here that there is support in the u.s. for vitus equipment, I just got my first abosute sound audio magazine yesterday, first one that i have gotten since 1997!, I have a friend here in town where I live that has the Magico Q-3 speakers, he is a strange character, He claims that his mid-range driver is blown, this was last spring, for the last few months, he has refused to allow me to listen to his system, and he has not fixed the speakers, he is loaded with money, so that is not the issue, I do not know if his speaker is fixed now, I lost interest with tring to listen to his system because he was weird about the situation?, I did put my hands on them though, man, built like tanks is an under statement!
Melbguy1, I have known the guy I am talking about for years, we used to best friends in the late 90s untill he tried to take my krell amp that I had then when I let him borrow it for an audition!, it was an krell FPB 200, He has always had a wonderfull system, however, for the life of him, he seemed to have anamosity toward me for haveing a better sounding system than he did for a whole lot less money!, of course I had tara labs cables then too,as always, he stuck more money in his componets and speakers, while I stuck money in cables and profound resonance control I invented!, that could be the posisbility as to why he does not want me to listen to his system?, some things never change, right now he has the Rega Osirus intergrated amp that retails for around $10,000.00, speaker cables, interconnects, and power cords are the shunata research z-tron anacondas, the best from shunata research with the shunata cable lifts off the floor, also he has a awsome looking two componet oppo 95 modded by modright with tubes in the out board power supply and the spinner as well, and a turn-table that I cannot remember what it is, and the magico Q-3 speakers, cheers.
Melbguy1, I agree with you post, I really do not undestand why he bought what he has, like I said, he is loaded with money, It was not my place to tell him this, I believe that would be rude, or maybe arragant?, it's easy to tell folks here on audiogon, they are on a screen, but when you are in someones house as a guest, to me, it's different, now if he pleaded with me my opinion, well then, that's a whole different matter, cheers.
Hi,i just ordered the gold gtx,I didn't want to take the chance of brightness entering the system.When Im tired at the end of the day,brightness bums me out.Ill see how this goes.Tidying up these power connections has brought more decay to the notes,which is very pleasing.Keith,I picked up a cheap revelation audio labs,precept pc cable.Ill let you know how that compares to the ps audio ac12,which isn't too bad.For me its a steal,in audio,$138 I think it cost me,on ebay.I got the uncooked gtx,I like hearing the changes it goes through,about a week this last one took.The pc takes 3 days to get up to speed anyway.Have a good weekend everyone.
Hi Misternice, Are you saying that The Furutech GTX-D Gold recepticles take a week to sound great without the cooking proccess that Chris Van Hause does their at Vh-audio?, This is cool, all of us will have the GTX-D gold outlets!, tell us here what your impressions are with one furutech GTX-D gold, I bet it will get a little better over another week or so?, interesting the power cords you have mentioned I have no exsperience with, yeah, tell us about them when you can, that's what we all are friends for is to learn off each other, BTW, I do not like brightness ina system myself, really, I cannot even remeber when that has happened last in any given system I have owned in many years, my biggest problem I hate that I do not have, but have had before with a couple of cd-players was the imeadiate in your face, up-front sound stage, I call this a forward presatation, That my friend is a big no,no, here in my house, if any given componet does that on my cables, amp, speakers, well then, that componet is gone!, two componets come to mind that I have owned that fit that bill, The Cary cd-500 up sampling solid state cd-player and the Ayon cd-2s up sampling tube cd-player, cheers.
Melbguy1, Talking about researching, check out the Krell reference Evolution 707 proccessor and all the reviews, this unit for 2-channel reference sound reproduction is second to only the krell Evolution two pre-amp, slighly not quite as good, but close to what a few users of the 707 has been telling me on my new Krell pre-amps thread their on the amps forum here on audiogon, man, the 707 is huge!, $30,000,00 to $35,000.00 new, used market around $13,000.00 to $15,000.00, not a bad target if I can be swayed to go active pre-amps, tell me what your impressions of all you read about this unit, it's crazy to me as to why all the reviewers believe no other brand pre-amp comes close to the performance at the time of the reviews, I know, I know, reviewers do not know our preference in sound, just a good bassis to go from.
Melbguy1, That is what i am talking about, useing the 707 for two channel audio because all other krell pre-amps ever made are not as good, with the exception of the krell Evo two pre-amp that sold new retail for $50,000.00. all the channels are equal in the 707, Matjet said he runs his 707 with proccesor section off on the unit, turns on analog two channel, and bam!, He said he will never sale his unit!, I was talking about the 707 may be a fit for my system.
I think they should be burned in in a week,the voodoo did,maybe there is some more to come,Ill let you know if another change happens.Some of my cds have a bit of brightness too them,so ill try the gold.If I have to go rhodium down the track,no problem.These speakers are very revealing,ill try to stick with them,time will tell.
Thankyou misternice, I do know that the Furutech GTX-D Gold or Rhodium outlets do need some time to burn-in, however, I do not believe I have ever asked Chris Vanhause their at vh-audio how long they take?
Audiolab, I will be getting rhodium. Given my speakers are a little soft on the top end I think this is the right choice for me. I plan to purchase in a few weeks.
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