audioquest4life
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| Stand out phono stages I have to second the Aesthetix IO Signature, I have one with only one power supply but I have compared it to both a Pass Xono and a top ASR phono stage, and the IO is just much better than both. Of course this is on my system, my ears and my house... | |
| Treating High Humidity in basement Hi Yioryos, Thanks for your reply..the company here Luxhaus, www.luxhaus.de is one of bigger companies that offer custom or manufactured homes to people here in Europe. They are always doing some new age technology stuff to increase house efficien... | |
| Treating High Humidity in basement Hello Mitch2, The house we moved into is our own and we had it built to our specs, including the floor heat, outside walls and the whole house plan. The company that built the house, Luxhaus.de had "Options" when we were planning the house, I deci... | |
| Dedicated power and outlets Hi, I can attest that addding dedicated power lines is one of those best tweaks to do for your system. We are moved into our new house and I added 5 dedicated lines, all with 3 strand 2.5MM thick cables in dedicated pipes in the walls. At the end,... | |
| Treating High Humidity in basement Thank you all for your responses. Not having time during the week due to work and a long commute, I have been checking here and other places to see what should be the best way to tackle this issue. First off, I bought a Value Home dehumdifier, 20L... | |
| Dedicated Stand for a Turntable ? Opinions. I tried a wall mount in an older house with good results, however,when I moved the walls were not great for drilling holes and I opted for the Clearaudio MontBlanc turntable stand. I use a Transrotor Apollon fully decked out, three motors and 80 m... | |
| Aesthetix IO Sig V 2nd power supply & Lamm LP2 del I have owned an IO Signature with one power supply for over a year now and have about 600 hours on this setup. I am running 62db gain with a Benz LP and 1K ohms. I know that after about 30 minutes the IO Sig sounds better then cold, or this could ... | |
| A More Forward Sound Stage/ Cables the answer? When I was auditioning the Einstein Tube preamp my soundstage came forward a lot. In my current setup I am about stage 3-5 and hear the music in a panoramic so to speak. With the Einstein, the music was on top of me with the soundstage appearing t... | |
| Using B&W 802n's as Rears w/B&W 800n's as Mains??? I have used that setup for my system, and it rocks, I used the Nautilus HTM1 center and nautilus ASW subwoofer, I have never heard U571 sound as good as it did when I had used that setup. I am using a Sunfire surround amp for home cinema duties. V... | |
| Anyone, experience of the Octave Hp-500SE? I forget to add that the website has reviews posted about this preamp. I was stunned to find that in Japan they did a test against the Mark Levinson 326S, Halcro DM10 and Accuphase C2800 and it ranked among those, acheiving a best buy award in Jap... | |
| Anyone, experience of the Octave Hp-500SE? I have serial number 50 from this very unit and as Michael said, it is great in all regards. I just recently put the HP500SE against the Einstein the Tube Preamp and the top of the line Octave Jubilee reference preamp, I still own the HP500SE. A t... | |
| B&W what amp is best solid state or tube... guess I use German brand mono tube amps rated at 140 watt per channel, Octave MRE130 with outboard high capacitance power supply to drive my B&W Nautilus 800's with no problem. It can drive the speakers loud enough to start hurting your ears. Ciao,A... | |
| Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it. I would have to add that you either like analog and vinyl or not in regards to the setup, adjustments, replacements of cartridges and needles and inhaling mold and cleaning solutions. Yes, it seems a daunting task sometimes, and one that seems unr... | |
| Is vinyl still a "perfect" source? "That is not to say that they are not significantly better than a record which has been subjected to more digital manipulation in the recording chain, but it is certainly why most of the re-issues do not stand up to the originals particularly in t... | |
| Is vinyl still a "perfect" source? I would not let the sound quality of today's pressinsg dissuade you from deciding to use vinyl as a source. There are plenty of high quality pressings from Pure Audiophile, Pure Analog and MFSL and a slew of others that are pressing great quality ... |