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| Why does it take so many hours to brea in arc preamps and amps? It took well over 300+ hours for my REGA Isis valve cdp and REGA Osiris integrated amp to settle in .... the actual burn-in process was longer but less pronounced farther out on the time vs performance curve. At 300plus hours, that timeline point ... | |
| Proac Response D 48/Tannoy Kensington I have heard them both with high marks for each, but never in a head-to-head shootout.Thye are not clones of each other sonically. Which you prefer is entirely a very personal bias choice with no consensus. What they DO share is two-fold:(1) what ... | |
| Why So Many Raidho Speaker For Sale? (1) After 177-odd posts its time to mercifully bury this thread. (2) What's the big deal about highlighting selling Raidhos? For example, there are about a dozen TOTEMs up for sale on AGON and almost 3 dozen pairs of Totems currently up for sale o... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? A repost...its not just about raw material price...ODINS EXPLAINED AND REVIEWEDhttp://www.stevehuffphoto.com/nordost-valhalla-2-the-importance-of-cables-in-high-end-audio/http://www.theaudiobeat.com/equipment/nordost_odin.htmhttp://www.soundandvis... | |
| Vandersteen Very very unusual situation .......What is the rest of your system? Sounds like the new VANDY speakers are an extremely poor mismatch with the rest of your particular gear.system synergy matters --big time -- and one size does not fit all.When you... | |
| To power condition or not to power condition AVR Unless you have wild power swings because you live in an old apartment or the like, where a power conditioner assists in flattening out the swings with an element of surge protection, there is no reason to introduce a power conditioner.as properly... | |
| Vandersteeen 2wq (or any sub) in small room The VANDY subs are no more "finicky" than any other high-end subwoofer. They are not the usual typical home theatre AV subs with the latter's chuffy, wooly, and incoherent fuzzy (ergo lousy) bass performance from cheaply built boom-boxes..Yes, t... | |
| Power cable for Arcam AVR400 Don’t spend more than a max of $150 on any AVR power cord. ARCAM and CAMBRIDGE make some of the best available AVRs out there but that won’t exclude them from a common deficiency.(I had ’em in a prior rig...)As highlighted in my other power cord p... | |
| To power condition or not to power condition AVR 99.9% of AVRs have the very cheapest quality build power supplies made-in-Chin that simply don't compete with any quality build audio amp. they are built to a very very low price-point and resulting build quality point. Add to this the crap buil... | |
| To Bi-Wire or use Jumpers? Short answer: it depends on your system AND improvements from bi-amping rather than bi-wiring is another different animal entirely.NORDOST has a good succinct commentary: http://www.nordost.com/downloads/NorseJumperinstructions.pdfThey also highli... | |
| Choosing Sub-woofers. Please advise ASAP. The following article has been posted before and is rehashed again below - one of the finer reads in the subwoofer selection tree discussing this....Draw your own conclusions.http://ultrafi.com/why-everybody-needs- ... subwoofer/"…And Why a Really... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? I have absolutely no doubt that the cable pundits speak the God’s only truth as THEY see it or THEY experienced it, i.e. Cables do not matterOk..... fine ..... no quarrel or disputing their experiences and resulting opinions, and I would not even ... | |
| can we get to the bottom of what "rare" means in a FS banner Your FS RARE rant explained:in in this context it is just a simple variable value judgement blend of the subjective and the objective; I.e.:an Implied inference that (a) it is a purposeful metaphor for generating buyer interest BUT (b) is not the... | |
| Power cords for UHD Blue ray. Many many available choices up to a $150-ish range that are an upgrade from the usual real crummy fare stock power cords. Even a DIY cord with quality cable and plugs will do nicely.Used cables in this price range will be a fast choice - scour th... | |
| Totem like sound for tube amplification I owned the FORESTS and ARROS simultaneously in a prior system. Because the ARROS are distinctly unique and very different from the FORESTS sonically in almost every manner, I suggest you first decide which model sonic signature you prefer, espec... |