allears4u
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| Can a balanced cable be terminated with rca's I realize how old this thread is BUT.....my Yamaha CD player offers XLR outs but my Integrated offers only RCA inputs. Might there be a sonic improvement to using my XLR Cardius adapters to go RCA in? Or does this screw the signal up? I know....tr... | |
| Suggestions for New CD Player Dear gg107....if you can act fast Accessories 4less have a Yamaha S2100 player REFURBISHED for around $1500ish. The retail is $3500. It is just below their flagship model. I've owned a series of cd players including NAD, Oppo, Cambridge Audio....T... | |
| Remarkably better sound possible with just 1 system component change? Simple, relatively inexpensive...swap out your power cords with good ones. (Stay Under $500) What could you lose? In my system changing power cords to source components was transforming. I couldn't believe the difference. After spending much more ... | |
| seeking ‘HORN’ ideas apart from Klipshc Lascalla I'd like to weigh in on the need for sub addition to the Klipsch LaScala. Everyone says the Lascala needs a sub, and looking at the specs and roll off under 50db it SEEMS to be a absolute necessity. However, my experience has been pretty standard ... | |
| Turned Off My Subwoofer ... And My Speakers Sound Great Strangely the same thing happened to me (except for the wife part). Turned off sub for undisclosed reasons and everything sounded better. Especially gone was my OCD treatment of constantly adjusting the sub level due to each recordings emphasis (o... | |
| Line magnetic 812 iconic You are definitely on the right path thinking horns and tubes. (If my recent experience is anything to go by) I too was intrigued by Line Magnetic's story. Almost pulled trigger but heat of units and future service concerned me. I looked hard at P... | |
| Raven Audio Nighthawk MK3 BIG NEWS....my Raven Nighthawk MKIII apparently has gotten broken in finally. Yes, I WAS impressed but now shocked. And something happened that I didn't EVER expect....my system now exceeds what I thought was even possible in any kit. We've all he... | |
| Integrated amp choice. Ayre AX5 Twenty vs Mark Levinson 585 I realize my answer is outside of your specific question but please do consider the Raven Audio tube integrated amps. (Listening now and again amazed at jaw dropping clarity) I've had one for six months and it is quite beyond my wildest hopes for ... | |
| Have a U-Turn turntable with Ortofon 2M Red cartridge. Upgrade cartridge or turntable??? U-turn Orbit is very susceptible to room vibration. (Yes, I own one and have acrylic platter.) I built a suspended platform for the Orbit which transformed everything. Footfall not longer jars stylus out of groove. (Or, dancing wife) My HRS-12 Sun... | |
| Raven Audio Nighthawk Break in time period I appreciate the high fives. If we all get quarantined with Covid-19 I have 1000 CD's to review. That's one thing I especially like about getting an system upgrade of this magnitude...its like hearing my favorite music freshly again. And even bett... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? On table ....Antonio Carlos Jobim WAVE and Terra Brasilis, Jazz Samba by Getz & Byrd, Donald Fagen Nightfly....As for CD's tonight , trying not to play these CD's too much, Bugge Wesseltoft, Supreme Beings of Pleasure, 0'2L, Sweetwater, Cinema... | |
| Raven Audio Nighthawk MK3 Raven Audio allows one to return a unit for full credit in exchange for buying up the product line within one year. I thought the Blackhawk sounded more like what I'd be satisfied with but the reviews claimed the Nighthawk was great so why not try... | |
| Raven Audio Nighthawk MK3 Back in the old days...McIntosh (solid state only), Crown, Luxman, most recently the Cambridge Audio Azur 651r, (which has a direct mode to bypass all the crap circuitry of a AV receiver) ....I knew my amp was my one big weak spot. But I didn't w... | |
| Raven Audio Nighthawk MK3 One of the downsides of being an audiophile is the tendency to OCD focus on the slightest flaws in reproduction quality. Yet that also is one of the upsides of this hobby. Refining the sound to meet one's expectations can be extremely satisfying. ... | |
| Raven Audio Nighthawk MK3 Addressing your question of hum and/or noise with Raven Nighthawk. Yes, at first noisy. Realized with Klipsch Lascalas sensitivity and Raven tube combo I needed to really isolate everything. We all know not to lace AC cords with speaker cables, et... |