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| Focal -JM Lab Nova Utopia Be VS. B&W 801D Tight bass is not French? That sure is a first! Perhaps compared to Avalons but I wouldn't generalize. After hearing Mulidine, Apertura, Triangle, Mosquito, Vulcain, and PE Leon speakers, I can tell you French speakers have tight bass overall. If ... | |
| Focal -JM Lab Nova Utopia Be VS. B&W 801D The Be tweeter is not bright unless the electronics are or there is an impedance mismatch. Raquel is right on. Many of the Be's impedance plots will show you a huge hump in the highs. Personally, using a SET amp with Novas is totally missing the p... | |
| Power cable that will "calm" digital Oh yes - Vibrapods. Audphile1 has a good point there. I use them on my cd player as well. Make sure you get the right stiffness and don't use too many. 3 of them is plenty and for a Naim, #1 will probably be good enough.I have been able to change ... | |
| Massive buzz when using CJ PV10A with NAD C372 Hmmm...the fact that it hums even when the CJ is not powered precludes the idea of DC being the problem. So it must be a ground issues, as you surmised.Here is something you could try that has worked for me in the past: Take a wire, any old thin g... | |
| B&W 805 to 804 In my experience, the size of the speaker doesn't have much to do with how well it performs at low volumes.I had N804s in my 14x13 room and they worked well although in the end, I wanted more bass extension. In your case, I don't think you will ha... | |
| Bi-Wire I can't see how it would hurt anything. | |
| Do you own the Jeff Beck "Best Of " Live CD? Yes indeed! | |
| Massive buzz when using CJ PV10A with NAD C372 Sounds like you have DC voltage on the PV10's output to me. Usually you can tell by looking at the speaker drivers from the side but with Maggies, I guess you can't do that. You could check the output jacks of the PV10 with a good multmeter and se... | |
| Digital Volume Control any good ? Full digital volume control is no good IMO. Now, a digitally-controlled analog volume is a totally different story and I feel this approach gets the best of both ideas.Arthur | |
| Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it. I tried vinyl 3 times before deciding it isn't for me. Instead, I carefully put a CD playback system together that works with nearly all my recordings. I am thrilled with the results.Arthur | |
| Focal-JM Labs speakers Focal decided to quit supplying speaker manufacturers, like Wilson, with parts. Instead, they are using their technology for their own speakers exclusively now.Focal is a huge company, based in France, and has been around for like 25 years I think... | |
| YBA System I will be shocked if you find someone that has. Good luck though! | |
| Power cable that will "calm" digital I super highly recommend a van den Hul Mainsserver power cord. It is specially made for digital sources and is a wonder at making the cd format sound more natural. It works magic for me. And, after hearing its effect, two of my buddies got one for... | |
| ML-380 preamp problem. Have you unplugged and replugged the preamp? It sounds like the microprocessor is hanging up and might need a hard reboot. Worth a try anyway.I once had a Classe CP50 that did exactly what you describe. I got used to unhooking interconnects while ... | |
| Inverted and standard outputs on preamp Ted is right on. Should work fine that way. |