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| Curious How These Nordost Speaker Cables Do What They Do Here is the CANADA HI-FI reporter’s take from the NORDOST cables bake-off exhibit actually performed live at an audio expo show in TORONTO .I personally attended that show and agree with the reporter’s following article on his experiences.They sto... | |
| Timbernation Platform Problems You got screwed with a crap build piece....bottom line.Go get it replaced or returned with a refund.i bought mine from MAPLESHADE thst was fully finished (planed, sanded, and varnished) on ALL sides , as one would expect. | |
| Curious How These Nordost Speaker Cables Do What They Do Three key points in my experiences:(1) There is no one-size-fits-all "silver bullet" cable choice among the brand contenders and pretenders. We all know that your cable choice is entirely system dependent....full stop.(2) I settled on an all NORDO... | |
| Speaker Jumpers - Same Brand as Speaker Cables? I did an A-B swap-in / swap-out bake off between biwired vs single runs and matched jumpers with NORDOST FREY speaker cables in MY system ( emphasis added ))The clear winner for me was a stepped up variant of the single cable option: a full double... | |
| Building Maple stand need inexpensive wood supplier Have you scoped out MAPLESHADE?http://www.mapleshadestore.com/airdriedmapleplatforms.php | |
| Building Maple stand need inexpensive wood supplier Three takeaways:(1) Cheap quality solid maple is an oxymoron.(2) You only get what you pay for .... full stop.(3) Supplier prices for solid hardwood are intuitively very competitive and pricing differences are minimal to nil. | |
| Best redbook-only CD Player under $10k - Bryston BCD3, Resolution Audio Cantata 3.0, .... REGA ISIS valve | |
| to bi-wire or not? It is entirely speaker / system dependent.....full stop.without taking a bi-wire loom for an A-B in-house bake-off, you will never know if a bi-wire is an improvement or a marketing o,scebo. Otherwise, all the blind responses herein are nothing mo... | |
| Best Budget CD/SACD Player? You only get what you pay for in this wacky hobby.At a budget pricepoint strata, there is no "best". They are all built to their pricepoint with a resulting audio performance in lockstep .Accordingly, there will be minimal to nil performance diff... | |
| What is considered a "standard" percentage of devaluation per year foor high end speakers? There is no "standard" rate.(1) In my experience the suggested 40% knockdown in year one can easily range to 50%, and do not necessarily plateau there with no further reduction ad infinitum..(2) The variable depreciation in estimated fair market v... | |
| Better "Noise Cancelling" Headphones for Air Travel? Best of breed : Master & Dynamic ....,. take your choiice, on-ear, over-ear, or in-ear monitors ( it's a personal comfort choice) go the website and check out the links to the bevy of "best" reviews I have the MH-30s with the AQ Dragonfly . It... | |
| Sister's wants music system without the hassles! ARCAM SOLOhttps://www.gramophone.co.uk/feature/review-is-arcams-solo-music-the-best-all-in-one-audio-system | |
| Anyone Upgrade NAD D 3020 Power Cable? In brief: I would NOT bother, I heartily doubt that it will get you any meaningful improvement (if any). That amp is a fine yeoman performer at its price point strata but this proposed power cord mod is a placebo effect on your model and a sunk co... | |
| Any good cheap wireless airbuds? "Good" and "cheap" linked together in the same sentence in audio discussions is a a self cancelling myth. There is an irrefutable and inescapable axiom in this hobby: you only get what you pay for .....no escaping it.....full stop.Their build qu... | |
| interconnect XLR cables Valhalla Nordost or Reference XL Transparent? Your question as a general OP is an impossibility to answer: (1) Commenting on performance for a set of any XLR cables in isolation is no measure of meaningful success or failure, nor any meaningful suggestion towards "better" or "worse"..(2) the ... |