adg101
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| XLR connectors For the money, and you have to spend a lot to maybe get better is Neutrik and one I don’t think has been mentioned yet, but used a lot in the pro world is Switchcraft. A lot of well known cable manufacturers and probably in our kits use these jack... | |
| Ethernet cables +2 Supra Cat8. Very nice cable. I don’t believe it’s plenum rated which I’m guessing you’re only looking for cables between components and not inside walls or an attic. Can be purchased in bulk or with their ends which are very nice. Again very ni... | |
| Power Cable Suggestions At first I used a standard WyWires Silver Juice II on my Pass amp then added the HC (high current) heavier version and noticed an improvement across the board. Nelson Pass is known for saying PC don’t make a difference on his amps but I disagree. ... | |
| Streamer XLR Balanced - Blue Jean Cable Belden 1800f or Canare L-4E6S ? Are you looking for a cable from streamer to DAC or speaker cables? Seems like an AES/EBU 110 ohm digital cable so why the mention of your speakers? Can’t speak for the Belden but I can on the Canare and it’s a very good cable that does nothing wr... | |
| 15 ft XLR thoughts (BJC/Mogami etc) Canare is pretty dang good and for what a 15ft pair will run for a boutique brand I’d definitely try the Canare first which I have and it is very good. $44 seems like a risk I’d take. I’ve never used Amphenol XLR’s so cant speak for those but with... | |
| Adding a tube DAC to my BLUESOUND VAULT $500 for a tube DAC, I’d go way back and find a California Audio Labs Alpha if you can find one. That was a nice tube DAC in the day and I bet will still hold it’s own today. The CAL Sigma was the model below and still decent but not as good as th... | |
| Balanced Interconnect Recommendations Deep and wide soundstage, a cable that just gets out of the way and doesn’t draw attention to itself I’d suggest WyWires. I was a big fan of silver conductor for years, owned and dropped it and went back to copper after I went to WyWires. Skimmed ... | |
| interconnect suggestions Try these first as they’re very affordable and hear for yourself for little money if cables make a difference or not. I think they’ll be more open and disappear a little better than the Belden. If you don’t like you’ll only be out $40 and you can ... | |
| Oppo BDP-105D just for CDs? Can’t speak for the 105D but I own an UDP 205 and I can only assume it’s as good as the 105D. The Oppo’s are very good but for Redbook CD there are a lot of CD only players only that will outperform a stock Oppo. I have a Cambridge 851C that is mo... | |
| Has anyone painted or refinished their dunlavy spekaers If the veneer is fine maybe it would be possible to re-glue and clamp? Find a local trim carpenter, furniture repair person or cabinet builder/shop before painting. Seen a few pairs of Dunlavy’s with the lifted veneer, so apparently Mr. Dunlavy’s ... | |
| Suggestions please!! --Need to replace vintage Audio Research VT 200 Tube Power Amp All the ARC VT Series Amps are a pain in the butt to bias, and it’s just not the output but input tubes as well that have to be biased. Without extremely close matched tube sets (both) it is nearly impossible to bias these amps. You pretty much ha... | |
| Biwire fix I think you’ll have better luck with VH Audio, than VDH Audio. You can probably just send them to Chris and pay him to re-terminate.https://www.vhaudio.com/Might be just a lot easier and just better to try these out.https://www.amazon.com/Canare-S... | |
| Suggestions please!! --Need to replace vintage Audio Research VT 200 Tube Power Amp Read up on the Pass X250.5. It’s not the current .8 series but you may prefer it over the new model. Should not have any problems driving your ProAcs. If you don’t want used then .8 series or look at a ModWright KWA 150 SE. On Pass, if you buy use... | |
| Need help on a CD player Congrats. It is a great player and I can tell you it will improve with a proper power cord for digital components and I use at the time the latest Synergetic Black fuses which hard to believe, but they did bring the 851C to another level. The 851C... | |
| Please help a newbie Choose, whats the best preamplifier for $1000 or less used Had an ARC LS7, bought new, and I hate to say this as I really like ARC but that was my least favorite preamp. I’d look elsewhere before visiting that old girl. What did I replace it with? Sonic Frontiers SFL 1 is a better preamp hands down with t... |