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| my room sounds dead Did you build this room yourself? or was it already like this? You need to undo most of the acoustic treatment already in the room. Start by removing the egg crates from the ceiling. This should liven things up a bit. The walls may be dificult to ... | |
| The BEST system you've ever built !!!! Audio Research Reference 1 preamp, PH-2 phono preamp, M300 Mk II power amplifiers, Sim Audio W10 power amplifiers, Infinity IRS Beta speakers, Theta Miles CD player (as a transport), Theta Gen Va 24/96 DAC, SOTA Star Sapphire turntable/SME V tonea... | |
| To all the IRS Beta owners.... The Betas were built with tube amps (Audio Research M300's to be precise), but I have not heard the Cello's. Try the Cellos, but you should also try big tube amps as well if you can. also check out www.audiophilia.com/features/tm1.htm for thoughts... | |
| To all the IRS Beta owners.... Hi Alex. I have owned the Betas for a few years and have been fine tuning them and my system to them. Tweak number 1 is to open the planar bases and find the four high voltage polarized capacitors and replace them with non polarized caps. I have t... | |
| Mcintosh Amps w/ B&W 801'S McIntosh amps and B&W 801's will each shine in their own well matched systems, but my experiences with the two is that the Mac's do not have enough of a damping factor to mate well with B&W's, which can make the combination a bit laid back... | |
| Amp "Hum" caused by dimmer switches If the dimmer is the problem, you should remove the dimmer, no line conditioning treatment is as good as removing the source of the problem altogether. Try getting a few lamps for the room to give you different levels of total lighting in the room... | |
| Best audio racks Check these out www.timbrestage.co.uk you will love them or hate them, but they look gorgeous to me. | |
| THETA GEN 5A OUTPUT GAIN CHANGE MOD All they do is change the output. I believe Theta makes the dac with higher output because in most situations it gives you more dynamics. Beyond that you will not hear anything different with the gain lowered. Hooked up to the CAT you will get a b... | |
| pre-amp opinions Hi Mes, I am an ARC enthusiast so I think the Ref 2 MkII will work perfectly, but ultimately you should take some cd's to your ARC dealer and give the Ref 2 Mk II a listen for yourself, some like ARC and some don't, but most people who know will t... | |
| A/R Ref 2 Mk II any comments? Jtinn; I am sorry you are not having fun with ARC, but as long as you are happy with your sound, that is great. You are correct, that I have not heard the Ref 2 Mk II, my local dealer sold two before I could audition it, however, I have talked to ... | |
| A/R Ref 2 Mk II any comments? The Ref 2 Mk II has a new signal path board (JFET inputs and four 6H30's I believe, instead of the previous version which used 8 6922's) and still uses tube rectification in the power supply, but the rectifier tubes are laid out differently than t... | |
| Best Hybrid Amps. Tube Solid state amp I have the ARC M300 Mk II's and they are wonderfull. I will upgrade most of the other components in my system before replacing these. | |
| Dither,wordlength,jitter? the dcs purcell upsampler is the product that started all the upsampling trend, although those who do not believe in these products liken the piece to oversamplers, they do increase the wordlength as well as the sampling frequency, it all becomes ... | |
| Synergistic Ref vs. XLO signature XLR Hi Avguygeorge. yes I understand how inportant the synergy of component and interconnect matching is, but usually the differences between tow different interconnects remains the same between one system and another, it just usually works better wit... | |
| What makes / defines an audiophile ? I mean more money in the music than the electronics. I think that electronics can sometimes be just about money, as in some guy who has enough cash to throw at his system, but the guys who go out and puts in the effort to buy music one cd at a tim... |