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| bi-wire vs jumpers depends on various things and mainly on:(1) the effect on your speakers (one size does NOT fit all)(2) how far up the food chain are the speaker cables selected. The better the cable, the less favouritism toward bi-wiring. For example, on the CHOR... | |
| CD Transport for Rega DAC? IN an all REGA system, why not stick with a REGA APOLLO? | |
| In need of a powercord This is a well travelled discussion in many threads in AGON and other audio forums.(1) There is no escaping that swapping in and swapping out alternatives yourself will be the only litmus test as to what sounds best in YOUR system. Why? Because th... | |
| Power Cords - Just Say Yes Your insurance company, for starters.In the event of ANY mishap, a departure from building code (particularly where it is an override instead of a mistake) will likely void your insurance coverage.Not Recommended IMO' when a properly grounded dedi... | |
| Power Cords - Just Say Yes Polk432 ....Not wishing to sensationalize the obvious or trivialize the important.... but does this upgrade pathg also involve a pathway (now or later) for swapping in quality audiophile grade wall power plugs and/or a dedicated power line?The eff... | |
| Are you still playing CDs after, comp based syst? What your DAC or CDP can produce depends on the quality of your cdp and the DAC therein.On the weekend we test-drove a $900 DAC, and also a $4000 DAC at the dealer steamed from a MAC computer in Apple Lossless format: neither matched the performan... | |
| How to choose the kind of cables for your system? $$ are not the immediate main driving force behind your choices: Some cables sound better with your gear than others - facts, pure and simple.Because if this, you are relagated to a journey to find out which work well, and which can even make your... | |
| Power Cords - Just Say Yes AMEN to the improvements invoked by swapping in quality power cords. (1) Please note that some power chords (and particularly the plugs in those cords) work better than others with the particular kit you are running: it requires some swap-in/swap-... | |
| Best wall mountable center channel speaker? MARTIN LOGAN FRESCO or VIGNETTE(Frescos preferred) | |
| Double/diff. speakercable runs in singlewire conf. Shotgun configuration: true internal bi-wire or internal shotgun - you have two pair of cables and all you do is connect the two ends together to form one set of two; so you have 2 spades to 2 spades (you put the 2 pairs of cable in one run so it ... | |
| Possibly controversial: Totem arro overrated? "... that right there may be the root of your different experience.... but do have 2 other Totem speakers and enough experience with all sorts of gear to know that some combinations work better than others...."NAILED IT!I've had both the ARROs and... | |
| tube gear vs solid state...cable effectiveness my audiophile amigo has tube gear; and I have S/S kit.They both are equally sensitive to the introduction of quality cables; and that means ALL three genres of cables: ICs, speaker cables, and power chords. | |
| Anyone have a take on the new LFD NCSE Mk II Very fine kit .... it was my next choice after the REGA OSIRIS tht I bought.One caution though - the LFD amps and whatever you use as source are dependent on matched LFD ICs and LFD speaker cables to perform as you want them to. | |
| Small speaker suggestions I've owned the ARROs - yes; fine speakers with the "right" hardware and cables.I've also owned REGAs: terrific with "most" kit" and very foregiving vis-a-vis cables and supporting kit. REGA R1s/R3s (now RS1 and RS3) are within your budget: they pe... | |
| Cambridge Audio products unreliable/unsupported? Check out the AGON thread nelow: re: ARCAM pulling its AVR600 out of Chi-Fi production and also the other ARCAM models Chi-Fi sourced quality control issues,http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?bhome&1324311378 |