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| Innersound ESL amplifier - good choice? Hi Detlof. I didn't use Nordost on the 989's. Frankly, even the thought of that makes me shiver. I only referred to Nordost as a sound analogy. I used Mapleshade Omega Micro Planar III copper and NBS Signature series 1 - hardly screamers as spkr c... | |
| Innersound ESL amplifier - good choice? 1. One does not need absolute trust, i.e prostating like an acolyte, to read between the lines of an audio magazine. Trusting a mag much like you would approach a person is a good analogy. For example, you should always do an analysis that correla... | |
| Innersound ESL amplifier - good choice? Innersound on Quad 989's: dynamic with sterile spatial presentation and hard upper mids. Not hard/glaring like a GE 6650 tube, but more subtlely threadbare, the kind of trait that is only noticed when you realize that you are not listening as much... | |
| Amp shootout.....Tenor 75wi verses Berning ZH270 To be honest, you guys need to swap out the Linn IC and NOS-tube the Berning, which I think remains fair given the price disparity. Although the CD12 is wonderful - for CD - Linn is quite biased component-to-component towards dynamics and detail a... | |
| Opinions on the Bose 901 Psychicanimal, that's alot of work to go through for a piece of crap with crumbling foam...Hmmm, let's see, for a greater measure of marginal utility you could go out into a field with a shot gun and... | |
| A good integrated amp for Silverline Sonatina II mwalsdor: for a major improvement to you fine system, check out for your next purchase a Supratek Triode Syrah preamp. Like Moth, a small purist company. There's a thread running in pre/amp section right now under "Preamp deal of the century." You... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Oh God, I love it when I'm right. Its a $10K pre, or more, for @ $2K. As for Joule comparison, I wrote the Joule TAS review many moons ago and I've kept them both. Joule is slower, creamier upper mids - which I like. Syrah is "cleaner" but without... | |
| Can you help or do I have to get divorced? With all due respect, grow a spine. | |
| Avalon: Eidolon vs Opus vs Opus Ceramique Just an aside. Once Cornfedboy flamed me in a post - out of context, out of nowwhere, etc. - so I sent him an e-mail providing my home phone number and asked him to call me and tell me what he meant. He never did. Par for the course, I'd say. whil... | |
| Any one tried David Elrod's EPS power cables? I will say that David Elrod was always a very honest person when I dealt with him as a reviewer (he was, at the time, the distributor for Electraglide). This quality is not to be overstated in high end audio, and particularly in the cable game. Da... | |
| Best Speaker cables on the cheap? Sell your JBL speakers before you start deciding which cable is better for what and whether its worth it. Talk about tone controls...I can hear the screaching sound of twisted metal from here. | |
| Innersound ESLs Amplifier You're right, if you want HUGE bass as a priority with Rock music or the like, then, yes, get the Inner Sound. I used the Inner Sound with the Quad 989's for a review and, yes, the only qualities that I found commendable in the amp are the same on... | |
| The Absolute Sound Review of Sony SCD-XA777ES ??? Clueless: I don't think our audio world is quite ready to hear that the King has no clothes.The hi-end is an incestuous marriage of art and commerce - or the search for "beauty" and the search for money - where, invariably, the considerations of a... | |
| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit Nice post, Slawney. I use a Shun Mook cable jacket on my Hovland phono cable and like it. | |
| How much money do you want to waste? Well, well, now we see the recoil, don't we? Let's update our tabulation: "surreal", "irrational", "grotesque", etc. and now a demand for an apology on behalf (self-annointed)of all objectivists throughout all the world (and, assumably, throughout... |