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| Biwire vs Single/jumper: Cardas Golden Ref Stanwal, yes I've tried changing jumpers on a variety of speakers and the differences are shocking. It is bizarre that expensive speaker ship with such cheap jumpers that mask their quality.Currently I'm running single wire to tweeter and jumper t... | |
| Biwire vs Single/jumper: Cardas Golden Ref LSA 1's are in the home theatre. It is FANTASTIC. I suppose it's the voicing, plus the fact that they are not quite as revealing as the LSA Statements or Silverline 17.5, but they are a match made in heaven with my Marantz AV receiver. Not as deta... | |
| How does one get off the merry-go-round? Easy. I will get off the merry-go-round right after my next purchase ;-) | |
| Techflex on speaker cable: sonic impact? Ok, so as long as I Techflex individual speaker cables in my audio system, odds are good that it will not degrade the sound... Thanks,Art | |
| cardas golden reference biwire 8 years later.... Did you ever solve the Cardas biwire problem?I'm debating whether to have Cardas convert my Golden Ref from single to biwire on the speaker end.Speakers are Silverline 17.5Thanks!Art | |
| Are my ears just fooling me? You are correct. Welcome to the club!I have found that room size relative to the size of the drivers is critical. It is easier to achieve that kind of presence in a smaller room, strictly speaking, if you can dedicate the room to audio Setup is cr... | |
| nuforce Ref 9 SE V3 vs wyred 4 sound STI 1000 I am extremely impressed with the Wyred STI-500. Liquid, detailed, grain-free, powerful, lifelike, refined. Bear in that I'm using one of the original Lessloss power cables, which in my experience so far seem to make all amps sound a huge incremen... | |
| Thiel CS3.5 vs CS3.6 Hi Johnson! Nice that you are still in the hobby! Yes I am the voice of experience when it comes to Thiels! I have owned 8 pairs over the years. I used to spend a couple years with Spendors, then own Thiels, then Proac, then Thiels.... I always li... | |
| Thiel CS3.5 vs CS3.6 Either way need a LOT OF POWER and VERY CLEAN sounding source gear and source material. Something warm in the system like Cardas cables would help. Both are "long in the tooth" so check on issues like component aging (Thiel customer support would ... | |
| nuforce Ref 9 SE V3 vs wyred 4 sound STI 1000 Early NuForce amps had serious RFI problems that is, FM radio in the building could not play when someone turned on a NuForce amp. From what I understand, that problem was quickly 90% to 95% fixed by a design change but I wonder whether it was eve... | |
| New Zu Mission cable Thanks for the comparisons Johnny. And also I see that with Zu having completely upended their speaker cable line, a thread on this topic would tend to compare old vs new models. | |
| New Zu Mission cable I've seen several threads where all the commentators simply compare cables within the Zu line, rather than compare to other brands, which is necessary and interesting and NORMAL. This is bizarre and has definitely scared me off of the Zu brand of ... | |
| Audiophile grade power cord with flat plug? I use Tributaries. Inexpensive, sturdy, arguably audiophile or not. I think the web site is www.accessories4less.com .Art | |
| Cables for Wyred 4 Sound STI-500 Thanks for the tip! And I'm thrilled to hear your EE DAC and the Mullards are working out so well. BTW I use those Mullards in my Cary 308T cd player and our conversation gave me the idea to try it out in the EE Dac (it will be a couple weeks befo... | |
| Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ? I keep driving hours into the woods and leaving my Cary SLI-80 in random locations but the following morning the integrated amp is always back at my front door deftly playing Keith Jarrett's "Koln Concert" ;-)Sigh.Artps: in triode mode on 8 ohm se... |