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| Suggestions for fully shielded power cord... Nsgarch, I think I'll have to disagree with you on the use of shielded cords for digital. Just that my experience has been different. I use Audience cord on my dac and tried shielded cords and always preffered the sound of the dac with Audience co... | |
| Newbie balanced cable help Lrdmax, catch your breath and enjoy your ARC stuff. ARC is one of the best. Should be fun!!!! Anyway how much were you going to spend on cables now? | |
| CD-R burnout I think with pics and data, some CD-Rs may potentially not work in some computers years from now. It may depend on the speed used when they were recorded, type of software, type of drive, etc... With music though, it should not happen if you use g... | |
| What are we listening for during break in? Bgrazman, I can imagine. I plan on sending my DNA-125 to Steve for some upgrades soon. With my speakers, the Plitron transformer, I think, is a must. | |
| What are we listening for during break in? thank you Tim. In regards to power cords. I found some power cords work better with digital and some work better with pre-amps and amps, but I can't say the difference between power cords was as big as changing Monster M550i interconnects to Acous... | |
| Newbie balanced cable help try Acoustic Zen Silver Ref MkII from CD3 to Ref and then Acoustic Zen Matrix Ref MkII from Ref to amp. Acoustic Zen Hologram II is a VERY nice speaker cable. All these are priced pretty good on the used market and if you don't like what you hear(... | |
| What are we listening for during break in? Timrhu, it depends... :)But seriously, I think when you insert brand new cables or components into your system, letting it play without actually listenning to it for a first 75 hours or so may be a good idea. Otherwise, you may jump to conclusions... | |
| New Jersey Audio Dealers Northern Jersey, an a-gon member Philnyc(www.sonicspirits.com). visit website for list of products. Great guy to deal with. | |
| Sonic Frontiers Line 3 and Power Condtioners Shunyata Hydra. | |
| What are we listening for during break in? I usually play a good recording of Mahler's 5th and Metallica's "black album" to break in cables with pretty good results. | |
| What are we listening for during break in? the reason why it is suggested to install the ICs that need break in between cd player and the pre-amp is that you can have your cd player spinning 24/7 and nothing else needs to be on in your system. that's all. you don't have to be listenning fo... | |
| Please Help A 1-box player I'd recommend is Audio Research CD2. You said you listen to aggressive music, CD2 has tremendous bass control and very good overall resolution without sounding digital. You can have CD2 for under $1500. Built like a tank. For separa... | |
| Do you like Jazz? Theduke, thanks!!!!! I'll check it out. Heard they play some good stuff once in a while. | |
| Do you like Jazz? which radio station in NYC has program called "New Sounds" or something like that. I heard this program is pretty good, but don't know which station and what time. thanks | |
| Breakin of Marantz SA8260 SACD player Mike, what do you mean it's class "a" @ $1000? |