acresverde
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| Where do I make the long run IC or speaker cable? I have three different sets of 10 meter ICs from pre to amp and 1.5 meter speaker cables. Speaker load is highly reactive as compared to the IC's load. So far, no dicernable problems with this arrangement. Especially if you're running balanced (as... | |
| Amplifiers and Horn Loudspeakers I think you will find that most amps with specs like you state for your own will, in most cases, employ undesirably large amounts of negative feedback, a sonic no-no IMHO.When I first got my A/G Duos, all I had in house was my Bryston 4B NRB so th... | |
| Why Palladium in cables, wiring, etc. . .? GCIf your comment regarding the resistivity of titanium had to do with the mention of the Pure Note Titanium cable, note that only the jacket of this cable is titanium (as I understand it). | |
| Why Palladium in cables, wiring, etc. . .? Metallurgically speaking, I can't help you but from a "...how it actually sounds point of view..." my admittedly limited exposure to palladium tells me it's a champ at detail retrieval and refinement without edginess. | |
| Amps for Avantgarde Been using Atmasphere M60s for 6 years with Duos. No itch to make a change yet and no problems. | |
| Red Wine, Patek, Audio Zone and Atma Sphere Stick with what you've got. The others, to me, would be a step backward. Why digitize unnecessarily? | |
| Preamps with Avantgarde speakers I've been using an all Atmasphere setup (M60s and MP-1) for about six years with my Duos. It straddles the so-called line between accuracy and musicality better than anything else I've heard, including SETs, and the result is purity. To me this (p... | |
| Absolutely worst LP that you own & enjoy? Hey Bill,Sorry it took me so long to revisit this thread. I kinda just forgot about it. I know you use Indra cuz you sold me mine. Still the one. | |
| is there life after the indra?? Funny you should ask. I, too, run 1 meter Indras (balanced ) from DAC to pre. However, for the last four months I have been using a pair of solid gold ICs sent to me by Jack Bybee (unsolicited). Essentially, these cables run a dead heat with the I... | |
| What music do you want to play really loud? "Mr Roboto" right before noon NFL kickoff. It's like a living room pep talk to get the blood pumping. Then, it's Thomas Dolby's "Science" for secondhalf kickoff. | |
| Absolutely worst LP that you own & enjoy? Hey Audiofeil,The 45 rpm 7" Surfin' Bird was the very first piece of new vinyl I ever bought (1964, I believe). A couple of years ago someone reisuued the 12" LP of the Trashmen with this on it and I picked it up. What a gas after 40 plus years to... | |
| Silversmith Audio--Great service provided for me. Afew months ago, during the Stereophile show and right at the transition point of Dodson to Jeff, I experienced a problem with my 217. I e-mailed SSA about what procedure to follow in sending off my unit. Jeff responded promptly even though he was... | |
| Absolutely worst LP that you own & enjoy? The Who "Live at Leeds" is a particularly abysmal sounding recording of some singularly ass-kicking live rock! | |
| Loudspeakers that go LOUD? Sounds like a recipe for horns to me. 50 watts harnessed to 100db sensitivity should rattle your dentures. | |
| Passive Preamp for Atmaspheres? The closest I can come to shedding light on your inquiry is to note that a friend of mine used to run M60s via the built-in volume control of his Wadia 861 into Merlins with good results IMHO. Almost all of his repertoire consisted of jazz and sma... |