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| Is it worth buying a headphone amp? Thanks for the responses, folks. It seems like a headphone amp will benefit me greatly, but I'm still wondering if I should buy better headphones first. I did a little experiment this morning and plugged my Senns into my Macbook (I'm not a compute... | |
| Fans of Blue Jeans Speaker Cable? Just ordered the Canare 4S11 this afternoon--8' lengths for me to single-wire and shorter lengths for my buddy to bi-wire, so I'll get to hear it in two configurations. I'm also getting another LC-1 IC to use as a jumper on my NAD C372. Hope they'... | |
| Fans of Blue Jeans Speaker Cable? Thanks, Jambalaya. It's looking now like it'll be the Canare for me. I'll post my impressions once I have them in my system, which should be pretty soon. | |
| Ear Speakers-AKG Q701's or Sennheiser HD 598's??? Why not step up to the Sennheiser HD600/650? I currently own the HD555 and formerly owned the HD600 (wasn't listening to headphones much when I switched). Both have similar warmth, but the HD600 is much higher in resolution across the board. At us... | |
| Fans of Blue Jeans Speaker Cable? Thanks for the input, everyone. I'm leaning toward the Canare 4S11 right now, based on what people have said here and what I've read in the archives. I'll be single-wiring with it and so will get some EMI/RFI blocking, which I know might not be a ... | |
| How Black is Your Background? I clamped some $5 EMI/RFI filters from Radio Shack onto the power cord to my CD player, and all of a sudden I was hearing small, low-level details and nuances that I'd never heard before. I suppose they'd been masked by electronic hash from EMI/RF... | |
| Fans of Blue Jeans Speaker Cable? Jambalaya, were you using the Belden or Canare BJC, and was it single or biwire? I've mostly seen comments on the Canare and would love to get a feel for both. Thanks. | |
| Fans of Blue Jeans Speaker Cable? Thanks, Peter. I'd been wondering about the Canare 4S11 because its geometry provides some EMI/RFI filtering--and every time I've treated EMI/RFI (whether through interconnects or EMI chokes) it's helped my system a lot. Is that likely to make muc... | |
| Vandersteen 2ce questions The amp is not the problem--I drove my 2CE Sig IIs with the NAD C372 and had bass as deep, tight, and tuneful as I could have asked for. It has plenty of power and current delivery. To repeat what some others have said, triple check to make sure y... | |
| vandersteen Model 1s Any Good Reviews There's a Fi review for the 1C by Wayne Garcia out there if you search a bit. I own the new 1Ci, and having stepped down from the 2CE Signature II to buy them, I'm very pleased with them. I think it's a fantastic speaker for the money, and with re... | |
| Recommended Integrated Amp for Dynaudio Focus 260 Congrats on the purchase! Enjoy it! | |
| Recommended Integrated Amp for Dynaudio Focus 260 Try the NAD C372/375. I used the C372 with the Focus 110 and 140 with success and use it with Vandersteens now. Fantastic bass, a little on the warm side of neutral but very transparent, with very functional tone controls. Sam Tellig called the C3... | |
| Speakers with no rear wall, better or worse sound? Best soundstage depth I heard out of my system, I placed my speakers a third of the way into my 13x18 room (on the short wall) with a wide, open double doorway behind them, a 10x13 entryway beyond that, and beyond that through another open set of ... | |
| Monitor speaker with the best bass at $500 used The Vandersteen 1C or 1Ci would fit your budget and requirements and save the cost of stands. I recommend it because I went through monitors from Spendor (S3/5), Totem (Model 1), and Dynaudio (Focus 110 and 140) as well as auditioning ProAc, B&... | |
| Cardas Speaker placement.. Ketchup--I just looked at my manual again, and you're right, it doesn't say anything about listening position. Thinking about it, I guess I figured bass nodes matter as much for the listening position as they do for the speakers. In my experience,... |