bar81
Responses from bar81
| Washington Post article - "Effects of Nanotubes... Alon Wolf undone! That kind of thing freaks me out; although it's basically a warning to workers, who the heck knows what's coming out when a driver is pounding away. | |
| 2-3K, Integrated or Seperates Have to agree, probably integrated. Ayre Ax-7e pops to mind from personal experience and comments of others. | |
| Affordable interconnect for warm system Concur with the Nordost. | |
| What speakers to get? Focal or B&W With that amplification you shouldn't get anything more revealing than a B&W 804S | |
| Need warm sounding cables: Transparent Ref. MM? You don't want to do that. As advised above, tweak with the PCs. Try Shunyata or VH Audio Airsine with gold or rhodium terminations. | |
| Esoteric P5/D5 Opinions please I'm not disputing value for money but if you're really concerned about that, then a GNSC Statement Wadia 861se is the way to go; it'll outperform the Esoteric one boxes (and hang with the P-03/D-03) and can be had used for the price of a X-03se. | |
| Esoteric P5/D5 Opinions please Whatever. The point was why would you settle for an X-03se when you can afford better units. | |
| Esoteric P5/D5 Opinions please If you're willing to go into that price range then you shouldn't waste your money on the X-03se; try the X-01 Ltd or the X-01 D2 | |
| Cable suggestions requested I would suggest you try some of the new MIT MA cables before you make your purchase. Generally, it's better to keep at least the ICs consistent in type but I'm sure many mix and match. | |
| Ayre amps - cool running? The MX-Rs can get quite warm into hot territory but that's driving them for hours on end at very loud volumes; typically they never get more than warm. My experience with the other newer amps (V-5xe and AX-7e) is that they never get more than warm. | |
| Revel Salon 2 versus WP 8 Hasn't this thread come to its conclusion anyhow. He chose the Revels over the Wilson; V3 is irrelevant. | |
| Power conditioner or not? It also critically depends on how clean your power is. | |
| Esoteric X-01 Limited or Esoteric P-05/D-05 combo? The consensus that I've seen is that the P5/D5 sounds better than the X-01 Limited in RBCD although obviously given the price difference (including dual AES/EBU, BNC/BNC and extra PC and these matter so if you can't afford excellent cables stick w... | |
| Revel Salon 2 versus WP 8 Nice reply JKalman and thanks for clarifying your comments which were not as simple as originally stated. | |
| Revel Salon 2 versus WP 8 I wouldn't put too much stock into a review from a publication with the credibility problems that one currently has. In any case, it's getting old how every few months (now apparently month to month) they find a new benchmark. However, your point ... |