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| How can power cords make a difference? NEW CHALLENGE is afoot! Count me in. I would be willing to "lend" a power cable to Jhunter as well. I have a pretty good Synergistic Research not in use. I would be happy to send it along to Jhunter for a few weeks. Same test conditions as Albert ... | |
| Nakamichi Dragons worth the fix? If I understand your description of the problem, it sounds like the tape door may have opened during transport, and then been jostled, which would cause cracking of whatever arms and such that support it. In general, a Dragon would certainly be wo... | |
| Best system for ROMANCE I like the recommended system by Khrys. The sound would be very sweet and melodic indeed. However, the 2CE's are the least romantic LOOKING speakers I have ever seen :( They are LARGE and rather ugly speakers, that need to be several feet away fro... | |
| Cable for Hovland and Cary I have Cary SE's as well. Not the 805's :( but the the 300se's. I found Cardas cable to be a little TOO warm with SE amps, for my tastes. I have found that the Cary's can utilize all the resolution you can give them, and of course, they will never... | |
| Monarchy SM70 Opinions I have an SM-70, and plan on getting another one. Krellnot's experience is obviously different than mine. To me the SM-70 sounds several leagues better than Adcoms or Rotels, while it is priced in that range. I have bought and sold a lot of used a... | |
| Different & inconsistent sound quality I always wondered if it was just me or other people noticed the change is sound quality too. I knew I wasn't imagining it, but always wondered if the situation was common. Anyway, I use two of the Blue Circle Noise Hounds now, and have found much ... | |
| What does tube bias do for sound? I think running the bias too high will shorten the life of the tubes for one thing, which might be a bit of a concern with 12 PER SIDE !! In my experience, I have found that a higher bias results in a crisper sound, while a lower bias results in a... | |
| Source of Brightness What are your cables? None of the three components you mentioned are particularily known to be bright. However, all Maggies tend to show any harshness in the system. Also, the Maggies have no bass! when you have no bass, the highs catch more atten... | |
| Question on tube noises Boy, that was a quick solution :( You gotta take the good with the bad when it comes to tubes. For myself, I like their sound far too much.... | |
| Help? Equalizer Question Sounds like thoses certain songs are "overloading" the input circuit of the equalizer. Some of the Audio Control's I have seen have an input level control, or a switch on the back for "low" and "high" gain. If you have either, try turning it down.... | |
| Why can't my components just get along? I really don't think power conditioning will solve the problem you are describing. I wonder, does the VTL preamp have a "record" selector in addition to "listen" selector? If so, maybe try it with the record selector pointing to something other th... | |
| Spkr cbls & IC's-must they be same brand I see absolutely NO reason that all cables have to be from the same manufacturer. Firstly, your components are surely not from the same manufacturer, right? (unless you have an all Naim system or something, in which case I would say stick with all... | |
| Static discharge - strange effect on amp My guess is that the Majik's processor is sensing a problem and muting the input you had selected at the time of the static discharge. Or maybe the processor is just momentarily freaking out, and going into self preservation mode :) This might als... | |
| Sold my Naim Nate 2, lots of regrets. That's a bummer when one makes a change to the system only to realize that it was better before! I had a Nait once (i think its NAIT as opposed to NATE..) I was quite impressed by the sheer musicality of it. It was very good at getting you into th... | |
| NHT 2.9 vs. Thiel 1.5 (or other?) From my experience, I would say that Thiels can be as UNforgiving as NHT's. If your current system is a little fatiguing with the NHT 1.5's, I would predict the same or higher level of fatigue with EITHER the NHT 2.9 or the Thiel 1.5. I am wonderi... |