audphile1
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| who makes a good toslink cable? WireWorld SuperNova3 or SuperNova5 - very affordable, glass toslink. Tell you the truth, in my system the differences between the 3 and 5 are very minimal. I use SuperNova5 just for the sake of having the latest version, but heard almost no improv... | |
| Herbie's Hal-O tube dampener's on Calypso? That's cool John. By the way, back to Herbie's hal-O damping instruments. I experimented with them in my pre-amp and found them to work best(improvement is most noticable) when they are installed at the very top of the tube. Installing them in the... | |
| Herbie's Hal-O tube dampener's on Calypso? didn't mean to read you a lecture... | |
| Herbie's Hal-O tube dampener's on Calypso? John, I don't think tapping on tubes is such a good idea. It's very unlikely that this is a proper way of finding the most microphonic tubes. You can probably end up damaging the tubes like that. Here is a pretty cool article about NOS tubes that ... | |
| How to tame the midrange??? Adding a dedicated tube stereo pre-amp will help a lot. There are excellent tube pre-amps with processor put-through, so you can still run your theater but for 2 channel stereo you will hav e a dedicated pre. Secondly, B&W speakers require bi-... | |
| Cable Suggestions Acoustic Zen could also be added to your list. Silver Reference MkII interconnects with Hologram sp cable. Could all be had here on a-gon for much less than you want to spend and be tough to beat even by things costing a lot more $. Best of luck. | |
| Herbie's Hal-O tube dampener's on Calypso? I beleive they offer some sort of trial period for these with money back policy. They are inexpensive even compared to some other less effective tweaks. I use them on all of the 6922 tubes in my ARC LS-15 pre and like the results. What they did in... | |
| Blue Circle DAC BC501 I am still curious to see if anyone here owns this for a period of time long enough to be able to judge it against other digital sources. That would actually be nice - to see what it compares to. | |
| Smoke and DVD Dude you must be smoking some good $hit, cause you can't even type. No wonder your DVD player is confused. No, for real man, you got to stop smoking this stuff or next your TV will be showing something totally wicked and you'll be posting to compl... | |
| Tube Preamp Isolation do not use vibrapods with LS15. Kills the sound completely. As a matter of fact, I am not using anything under this pre, but am using hal-o tube dampers. They work great. | |
| Jazz recommendations? Check this out. Might be what you are lookin for.Hiroko Kokubu - New York UncoveredClick the link...you can listen to samples from this cd...http://www.xrcd.net/Shopping/shopexd.asp?ccode=VICJ-61241 | |
| Classe CA-200 and B&W 805N combo?? B1 thing for sure - your amp is not contributing to harsh sound. I have/had 2 McCormack amps and they never sound harsh. SO look at your set up and speakers. | |
| Considerations when choosing a DAC? Channel Island Audio DAC is sold by Music Direct who will let audiotion it at home in your own system for 30 days. Audio Mirror offered me 5 days to audion the dac. You can also try Bel Canto DAC2 from AudioAdvisor, also 30 days. I never heard CIA... | |
| Help a vinyl-phile with a digital upgrade Marantz SA8260 does not sound analog to me. Benchmark DAC1 in my system prooved to be very digital sounding. After about 30 minutes of listenning I would not want to play another CD. The unit I kept was the Bel Canto DAC2. I use Sony S7700 as a tr... | |
| Shunyata Hydra 4 vs PS Audio UPC 200 I have 2 Hydra2 units. One for transport and dac another for amp and pre-amp. There was a noticable improvement when I incorporaterd the 2 Hydras into my system. YOu have consider the fact that I live in NYC in apartment building where power is $h... |