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| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? The effect of a power cord depends entirely on the power supply design in your components. For instance, before modding my amp and DAC, they both improved significantly with low-inductance power cords. After modding I can use a wall-wart ppower su... | |
| Which DAC to get? Here's some head-to-head:http://www.audiocircle.com/circles/viewtopic.php?t=5297 | |
| Electrocompaniet Bass prowess The bass is respectable, but mods will improve it noticably. | |
| transport recommendations DVD players outperform most CD transports. A modded DVD transport makes one of the best sources available, like a Sony DVP-S9000es or a DVP-S7700. | |
| Speakers for low level listening PCwizard is correct, the Proacs are very listenable at low levels, particularly the older towers that can be filled with sand. You will need a low-impedance amp to drive them or the bass will be out of control. | |
| Recomendation for speakers BEST for Piano? Ritteri - My wife has a Yamaha grand piano and plays it a little. We have no problems whatsoever telling the difference between a Yamaha, Steinway, Baldwin and a Boesendorfer, either live or on our reference system. Once a system is at the level o... | |
| Interconnects:Dazed and Confused Dealer? Why does this matter? Essential audio is not advertising here. IMO, it's really charitable that dealers are willing to share their wisdom with us.... | |
| Interconnects:Dazed and Confused Bob - I have one for you. It's Andreas Vollenwider, Trilogy two-disk set. One of the tracks has several dogs barking, but one is actually behind you. Only well-tuned systems put the dog behind you in 2-channel stereo. Quite convincing though.Also ... | |
| Interconnects:Dazed and Confused Bob's right. It's a challenge to help customers over the internet. You never know what level of sound quality they are really at. They may be at level 5 and you are at level 10. Or you both may be at level 10... Sending out demo units helps.It wou... | |
| Help me spend $1,500 on cables Sounds like a reasonable budget for all of the cables that you list here. | |
| Interconnects:Dazed and Confused One thing that you should know. The market dynamics are changin due to the internet. Small companies that sell direct are not only have the best values, but sometimes their products also have the best performance.Aside from this, I would recommend... | |
| transport sound quality of good modern CDPs DVD players will generally be much better transports than cd-only players. The tracking, servo and optical systems are much better in order to read DVD's. With the appropriate mods, most DVD players can become superb transports. | |
| Incredible CD sound for $1500?? Nothing off-the-shelf will compete with modded Transports and DAC's. I recommend you get your transport modded and then get a PT P-3A DAC modded. | |
| Using RCA & XLR connections at same time on Amp Rkmca - what you are doing may sound okay in some cases, but it is a really bad idea. | |
| Using RCA & XLR connections at same time on Amp If the amp does not have selector switch on the back for RCA/XLR, then it is very likely that the inputs are common (+ for RCA = + for XLR). Therefore, you do not want to connect two sources to the amp at the same time. This will essentially short... |