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| brulee fails PC challenge Science is not a "God". Scientific method itself has been shown this century to be deficient in several regards, most notably in the biases and perseptive limitations of the scientific minds that conduct the experiements (It never fails to amaze m... | |
| PC Challenge Test Results As the others, I thank you for your sincerity and honesty. Please don't take this personally, but:1. I don't know many people with requisite experience in listening who also don't know that Purist cables, and particulary the Dominus line, are very... | |
| new to tubes, match for spectral amp I can't imagine mating any Spectral unit to any tube unit, amp or preamp. Besides, if you like Spectral, you won't like tubes, and vice versa; if you like Spectral, then any tube unit will sound slow to you. If you favor tubes, then Spectral sound... | |
| Cary 805c and Quad ESL-63 Combination? I had Cary 805B's on US Monitors for @ 5 yrs. Very good match. NBS spkr cable sounded great between them. | |
| BMI Whale Elite - Construction? topkat: Ive got a FatBoy, but looking for a 3ft PC for amp coming next week (AirTight ATM300 8W SE Triode). Considering looking into Whale given price. What did you have EG on and how did EG and Whale compare in terms of space, harmonics, depth, a... | |
| Who pays for busted stuff? Hey guys, don't ship UPS anymore unless its 2 day air. UPS went public a few years back and since then has had mucho labor problems: more competition, increased workload and pressure to deliver quicker driver delivery, escalating executive compens... | |
| Finally gonna buy new speakers, ideas? Do yourself a BIG favor and listen to some SoundLabs and buy used at $10K - a U2 cmodel, or U1 if you get lucky. | |
| Speakers to hang on to for LIFE 1. Rogers LS3/5A 11 or 15 ohm2. Quad US63 3. SoundLab U14. ESP Concert Grands5. Acoustat 1+1 Medallions | |
| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit You know guys, everything you've said - and its all very good (thank you...) - sounds very familiar to my reactions to Kondo's AudioNote cables. They are also bare wire connected and use thin strand conductors. Sound? Also "vibrant", extremely "dy... | |
| Preamp shootout: Joule, CJ, BAT Yes, Bryceeboy, you are hearing synergy - which is a good thing. Also, Karsten is very high on balanced, even believes cable irrelevant in his balanced configuration, which, of course doesn't mean that's true (its not), but means that Karsten's pi... | |
| Airtight ATM300 vs. Cary 300SEI Thanks guys, you really helped me deal with my latest (but not greatest) audio psycho-pathologic attachment. I've got an AirTight ATM 300 on the way - should have in 2d system by end of June. If you are interested, this system comprised of Sony XA... | |
| Preamp shootout: Joule, CJ, BAT I did the review on the Joule in TAS @ 7 or so years ago. I still have it. You are correct in your assessment. The Joule can sound "mellow" because of the complex harmonics if heard without a point of reference, and especially if coming from lesse... | |
| Jumping into SE tube amps. Suggestions? Guys, when a gentleman asks for info on a 3K/3K swing and specifies SE triodes, please don't lead him on to $500-1000 push pulls, or worse. Sun Audio makes a killer SE amp (w/ vol pots, if you want to run direct from digital, and for extra gain if... | |
| Has anyone listened to Legacy speakers? Let me explain it. If you know what you are doing, you know that Legacy is as Trejla says - exactly. They bag newbies with the ads before they get to Stereophile (where they then think blah, blah, blah is best, and then they are off to TAS...) and... | |
| Airtight ATM300 vs. Cary 300SEI Thanks, Terry, for the great feedback. Yes, I've considered Sun...Now you have me really going. Is there a qualitative difference between the regular and OEM Tamura Transformer? I would assume not, but your mentioning it has me wondering. What do ... |