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| Absorbtion? Something is suspicious here as the Cardas placement's whole goal in life is to reduce the effect of the room on the sound.Perhaps you are too far off-axis. You might try some toe-in and see what happens.Also, some speakers work well in a 'nearfie... | |
| Does EVERY component need break-in? Generally there are two camps - the believers and the non-believers.The believers will probably tell you that it does need to break in.I have no idea if it needs to break in or not. I can say that if you are not satisfied with any electronic compo... | |
| Odyssey Stratos : what preamp ? FYI - The Stratos XLR input is not truly balanced. It is just physically jumpered to the RCA inputs.If you need the noise rejection of balanced cables that's ok, otherwise don't spend extra money for balanced cables. | |
| Upper Midrange Glare problem Jcbtubes - I agree completely.What I'm trying to say is - if a person says their system is so far out of whack they can't listen to it then we're out of the realm of cable optimizations. The system problem should be found and corrected.It's like h... | |
| Upper Midrange Glare problem Sean -Thanks for the info.I think we are basically on the same page and am looking for an explanation of our different posts.My view is that under 'normal' conditions cable changes make subtle changes and are used to fine-tune a system.You have po... | |
| Upper Midrange Glare problem To Sean:On the systems which were cured with your cables, what do you hypothesize the root cause was and how did the cables cause the sound to improve?Also, what is the effect of placing these cables in a system which sounds good to begin with?Tha... | |
| Upper Midrange Glare problem Paging Bowlerds!Has any of the info posted here helped in any way?It adds to the knowledge of everyone when we find out what was sucessfull in curing your problem.Let us know what's going on! | |
| Upper Midrange Glare problem I will stick my neck out and postulate that cables are not going to help.I do not seek a tussle with those who suggest cable changes. It is simply that in my experience cable changes are in the fine-tuning category and your problem is in the major... | |
| Upper Midrange Glare problem I'll pass this along for what it's worth.While I'm not sure what you hear as "upper midrange glare" I had a problem with instruments like violins and sax's. They were so screechy and glaring I just couldn't listen to them.After a bunch of equipmen... | |
| Balanced vs. Unbalanced Inputs You don't say if your source has balanced out's. If not then there's no point to an amp with balanced in's.The benefit of balanced connections is increased noise rejection if (and a big if) all the equipment uses true balanced circuitry.As has alr... | |
| BAT VK-3i / BAT VK-30 or Herron VTSP-1A pre amp Well, I'll pitch in and say that I'm a BAT fan.I have the VK-3i and it's my favorite piece of gear. It just has that bombproof Russian thing going!You can turn the preamp on or off while the power amp is connected and not suffer the pops and bangs... | |
| Static / Fuzzy Sound in Speakers Another thing to try...See what happens when only one cable is connected to the cd player. If you don't hear the sound then this is probably what is called a ground loop problem.It is suspicious that you have this problem in multiple systems in yo... | |
| Static / Fuzzy Sound in Speakers Another thing to try...See what happens when only one cable is connected to the cd player. If you don't hear the sound then this is probably what is called a ground loop problem.It is suspicious that you have this problem in multiple systems in yo... | |
| Static / Fuzzy Sound in Speakers You need to approach this in an organized way.First, power everything off and disconnect everything from the amp except the speaker cables. Power on the amp. If you hear the noise then it's coming from the amp.Next plug the interconnects into the ... | |
| I need help with hum It's the ground on the cable.There is a bunch of info on this over at AudioAsylum.The problem is that there are two separate grounds - one for the power and one for the cable. They are often at different potentials which causes current to flow (so... |