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| Best Holiday CDs? Steve/Tubegroover - I mailed the CD ROM copy to Steve last week. He shold be getting this week. Would love to hear what you think, so please post and/or send me a private e-mail. I recevied ther latest CD (ANgelo Blu), and was disappointed. There ... | |
| Sonus faber Musica,and Guarneri Congratulations! I own the same speakers myself. Mine are, however, in a smaller room, and I use monoblock amplifiers so do not have to worry about the length of cable. As far as cable choice, please feed your Guarneri's good stuff. I have used AQ... | |
| Sonic frontiers Line 3? vs. BAT? I spoke with Kevin at Upscale Audio, and he said the SFL3 could be "voiced" by changing just 2 tubes. Wondering if you tried this and whether this would improve the warmth. I listen mostly to classical (orchestral and opera) and jazz (including bi... | |
| Buyer Beware! I've dealt with HCM and Capri before. Ulike you,never had a problem, but concur on them being honarble and prompt. | |
| Best Digital Cable around $100 used I also went after a low cost cable, after the makers of my gear told me they did not hear a lot of differences. I purchased an Aural Symphonics Gen 1 cable from HCM Audio for about $ 60. It's 0.7 meters long (though they have them in 0.6 and 0.6 m... | |
| Cryo your cables? Sounds like Purist Audio know what they are doing and do it right. If done by the manufacturer (who should know the alloy composition), then this should work. As to whether the effect lasts, again it depends on temperature "history". If, after cry... | |
| Acoustic Energy AE1 Signature Agree. I auditioned these in Europe and they are VERY good, in the same class as the Revel Gems or the Sonus Faber monitors (guarneri excepted, though only becasuse of its sueprb midrange). The AE1 threw a huge soundstage and had incredibel dynami... | |
| Buyer Beware! Jsbail-Thanks for the tip. sounds like a great way to do business. | |
| Cryo your cables? I'd be careful. Cryo freezing can potentially damage the non metal part of your cables sucha s teflon and PE shileds, spcers, etc. As for the effect on metals, it will depend highly on the specific metal and metal alloy used. Unless you (or whoeve... | |
| Best Holiday CDs? By the way..apologies for the typos. Life is too short to spell check! ( but I DO know how!) | |
| Best Holiday CDs? Steve/Tubegroover - I'll do better. I will ask my borther to burn a copy on his CD-R and mail it to one of you as X-mas present PROVIDED you pass it on to the other one. Let me know if you are interested. Who wants to be first? As for the details ... | |
| Buyer Beware! Thanks, Madnut. I guess I will follow your advice next time. It's a shame. I wish Audiogon was a bit more "selective", though I must say they were VERY helpful the last time (first time also) I had an issue on a trnasaction. They released the memb... | |
| Are there more tirekickers now vs. then? I get those too. Alos lots of "are these still available" e-mails, with zero follow up after an affirmative reply. Low abll offers also becoming more common, probably from foks who have no real sense of the value of what they are trying to buy OR ... | |
| Best Customer Service (Manufacturer) If I judge by the courteous service they gave me on a transport I bought second hand, I can't imagine what they'd do for one still under warranty. Great products, great sound, great peopl - especially Greg Fowler, who had the misfortune of picking... | |
| Best Holiday CDs? Sinatra's Jolly X-mas on MoFi is pretty good. BUT, the old time best for me, and also my standard test CD for male vocals, is a CD of traditional X-mas music sung in Enlgish by an Italian group called Neri Per Caso. The group is composed of three ... |