blindjim
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| Shall I add a preamp to my setup? Buying anything used isn't entirely dangerous regardless the the item. It does have it's ups & downs though. Using some prudent judgement, and doing some howmework/research on the seller and the intended item is a must however.I bought what I ... | |
| Power Cable Shootout... Popularity of an item is a good thing but it comes with a caveat. It means some greater degree of competition.... if there's a dozen of the same thing being sold which one sells first? Or at all? .. and then there's that Why is everyone selling? t... | |
| Rethinking Listening Fatigue CwlondonAll the rhetoric & theoretical causalities aside... I feel a solution (if one is truly being sought) rests with either spot replacement of the components of the now rig, and/or the addition of power filtering and pass that, perhaps so... | |
| Shall I add a preamp to my setup? GrandetechTube pre with pass through, huh?That shouldnt be too difficult a thing to come by these days as many makers are putting that into their designs for the HT systems everyone is doing now.Personally, I feel the two, stereo and HT should re... | |
| Rethinking Listening Fatigue to point the finger at one aspect of your system now probably isn't the most appropriate way, though for now, I'll go along with SMS' note. A decent passive filter shouldn't run much and it can translate into another rig or be sold again if it's n... | |
| Receptacle on floor? The above poster is right... the ONLY caveat left is to use a hard cover for floor receptacles, brass, steel, etc. as they are exposed to more weighty items than wall outlets would be.No other diffs should be apparent aside from placement. | |
| Power Cable Shootout... Voodoo cables LLC.... and Bruce does have a trial period built in... and/or an upgrade option last time I checked.Voodoo Power cords which have both performance and value. The Gold Dragon was named power cord of the year recently, in an offshore m... | |
| Shall I add a preamp to my setup? Interesting question. In my exp. I wound up using a digital front end to drive all else with eventually, though I did not even think of that as a path to sonic entrapment, initially. however the DAC I can use as a preamp is not an all the time dea... | |
| Anyone else miss audiophile nervosa? YEP I do miss it just like I miss a deep sunburn and spilling hot coffee on my lap.I do remain intrigued however with some aspects of system ins and outs Ive not yet tried like for instance putting together a nice SET rig or checking out the d... | |
| Help me choose Parasound or McCormack The SE version has some board mods and power supply mods. Mine has 180k cap upgrades, and some resistor changes as well on the ckt boards.My big Phase techs are pretty hungry units and drop to 2 ohms... the OS SE has no issues what so ever driving... | |
| Good Copper IC's for 2.5M RCA pre to amp? Mitch2 Art Dudley wrote a pretty good (accurate) review of the SX Ltd. some time back in Stereophile, comparing and contrasting them to Nordost's Valhalla.Bruce Richardson of Voodoo cables makes an Ultralinear cable comprised of both copper & ... | |
| Good Copper IC's for 2.5M RCA pre to amp? Synergistic Research Resolution Ref x2 active. I went to the RR x2 instead of the Venustas and several others for the body, imaging, midrange, and bottom end they possess.You'll save some money in the process. other than the RR's I'd say try the S... | |
| Safe Shipping, Fact or Fiction Shipping, regardless the sellers feedback, or packing, is a coin toss at best. Many dealers Ive spoken with have said that their major obstacle in selling is the carrier.Despite the horror stories surrounding shippers, the majority of shipped ite... | |
| Paradisea Dac Things are gonna be pretty dependant upon your tastes here. These notes on the Benchmark posted above and elsewhere excluded that DAC from my search.The Paradasea also was considered but as both 4est and a close friend of mine said, getting the ri... | |
| Help me choose Parasound or McCormack I had the same quandry some time back... need a good amp but don't want to spend a ton of bucks on one.I considered several including McC, Para, BAT, and a couple of others some members named for me. Having personally owned BK 220 Ref, Krell KAV25... |