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| New Fuse Thread . . . Tom, The AHP breakers allow one to experiment with either the gold plated cooper or silver fuses. I have settled on the copper fuses for the main circuit driving my amps, while the rest of the equipment on another fuse block is using a silver fuse... | |
| Anyone listen to Octave 500SE or Jubilee preamps? I have the Octave HP500SE and have autioned the Jubilee preamp as well. I can say that they are both close in character, with the Jubilee exhiting a more frontal presentation versus the 500SE's more 5th or 6th row presentation. The 500SE I won has... | |
| New Fuse Thread . . . These are my responses to your questions. I am using German tube equipment (in Germany) and I am going against the grain for the norm of the Hi-Fi fuses by using the AHP fuses instead, as my whole listening room is already wired with the breakers ... | |
| When has a piece of equipment paid for itself?? I guess we need to find out the depreciation value the company has assigned to that piece of equipment based on salvage value over a given period of time. I am in accounting right now and have had to deal wih many of the same questions in homework... | |
| Hi End rack really deliver? When I switched to the Copulare racks, http://www.copulare.de/english/home.html I found that the music was more intimate, more detailed and the bass more solid, all of this was missing on my ad-hoc home made wood platforms. I was balancing the edg... | |
| best phono preamps? This has been brought up here several times, use the search function to really see the results of the best phono preamp replies. I did a search for best phono amp and best phono preamp with varied results. Personally I believe the Aesthetix IO Sig... | |
| Belt stretch I find this thread very interesting. I thought I would throw a monkey in the wrench so to speak. We know for a fact that for a certain amount of mass, a belt that has a specific amount of elasticity and proper torque to spin such mass, we can prod... | |
| Man Cave or No? Yes, a dedicated man cave for listening to music in the basement. The whole reason for this, was so that my wife would not be disturbed when I listen to music while she tried to sleep. In fact, we joke the house was built around the listening room... | |
| Looking 4 a high quality phono line stage $5k-$8k I have to agree with Rushton, the Aesthetix IO Signature is a great option, finding one used will be the problem. They show up every once in a while, but go fast. I have to disagree about the recommendation for the ASR Basis Exclusive, it did not ... | |
| Low capacitance interconnect?? Try any of the Neotech brand of cables, they are mostly low capacitance and compare in performance to cables costing way more. I favor them over the Harmonix Golden Reference IC's I have demoed in my system. Ciao,Audioquest4life | |
| Krell KPE vs. Aesthetx IO Sig. Radrog,Thank you. You will be very satisfied with the IO. I think I am addicted to listening to music with the IO in the analog chain, the IO added so much more realism to the music that I can't help but bury myself to listening to music whenever ... | |
| Benz LP Ebony, and S-Class Ebony I had my Benz LP retipped about 5 months ago, but now I think I should have asked for the new S version tip. I agree about the Benz LP being understated. When I was on the hunt for a new cartridge, I was actively listening to the Koetsu's, the Ony... | |
| Krell KPE vs. Aesthetx IO Sig. I think one of the reasons the dealers are suggesting the BAT is that it is a great phono preamp, and maybe they are swaying you for the dealer sell. When I was on the hunt for my phono amp, I took almost two years, I demoed the ASR, listened to t... | |
| Krell KPE vs. Aesthetx IO Sig. Radrog, Did you get the two power supply option? I am considering doing that upgrade this year sometime. The IO Sig is an awesome sounding phono amp and I have had many a pleasant listening hours with it. I owul suggest that you have some spare tu... | |
| How To Add A Sub To B&W N802's I use a B&W ASW 850 sub with the Velodyne SMS-1 sub controller. I have B&W 800's with this setup and run them full range. I cross the sub at 40hz and have experimented with al the options on the sub EQ to arrive to where I am at right now.... |