blindjim
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| Should I upgrade DAC, speaker cables, ICs, or PCs? as belated as this may well be... aS Macdadtexas AND I HAVE BOTH SAID ITS A MIX. Try as many as you can. The more popular ones will be easier to both get and get rid of if necessary.. usually. Sometimes popular works against you in the Audiogon ... | |
| Amp for Coincident Super Eclipse Please note here.... different folks with the same or nearly the same units say different things about them.your tastes and room will determine the best fit for you.if they weren't so tall I'd have considered them long ago and did until I really e... | |
| Electrostatic versus conventional speakers As Lrsky pointed out, theres been some changes over the last years with flat speakers. No doubt theyve improved.From my perspective, they are indeed different. Not better nor worse than any other sort. They seem to have a non directionality abou... | |
| USB Cards to Replace Compact Discs? Kudo's to those cyber geeks that have written apps which can extract the higher res audio from all BUT SACD so far.As intent as they seem to be to keep people from copying and transmitting recorded info there will always be those who can and will ... | |
| HELP Marantz MA-6100 and Vanersteen 3a signatures Many amps will do you better than will those within recievers.I don't feel "louder" was the aim of these other folks. Better.... I suspect was their aim.do remember... there's watts and then there's watts! that normally means the power supply is k... | |
| Is HDMI worth the upgrade? ChadnlizNewbie asked Can't you use a Oppo BDP-83 with its' analog outs to go this route? Do the new high bit rate audio codecs play over the Oppo's analog outs?You replied . No they only play via HDMI, thats why the market has crashed on pre HDM... | |
| bananas vs spades as terminals for speaker cables I think they are all, "set and forget" unless the gear is getting moved more than a couple inches. then spades arebest.I've heard no diffs in sound quality from one to another. I prefer Bananas. Far easier to deal with and hook up to nearly anythi... | |
| HELP Marantz MA-6100 and Vanersteen 3a signatures I've no actual exp with either unit. I have heard from a couple or more Vandy 3a owners they opted for more power than 125 receiver watts to run theirs with.you might check some of the virtual system's more closely to see what other 3a owners are ... | |
| USB Cards to Replace Compact Discs? Whenever the major recording lables allow direct duping from their 'high res' masters... all of them BTW... regardless the genre, life would be great for the audiophile and finding HD music easily and affordably wouldnt be an issue..The problem i... | |
| Should I upgrade DAC, speaker cables, ICs, or PCs? I think it's time to begin borrowing cables from the Cable Co. and begin tuning your system... actually, enabling & refining your system.Wires do matter. They ain't much fun and they seem like such a non player, but WIRES DO MATTER.... A LOT. ... | |
| USB Cards to Replace Compact Discs? I think FIMM also sees the $$$$ advantage of high density floppies or thumb drives vs. CDs.Bring 'em on. Use a viable and existing interface that can introduce higher res files? Why not?Seems to me security will be an issue as well as DRM, copyrig... | |
| classical label monitors Wow! No kidding. Huh. ATC. That's impressive.I'm curious now though... Why ask this in the first place?Aren't studio monitors not the usual choice for relaxing music listening and for the far more critical needs of the producer & production pr... | |
| Is HDMI worth the upgrade? Thanks... you're welcome. | |
| Is HDMI worth the upgrade? The ones that interest me are the Integra models. In the Integra - onkyo line up music sense is not replaced by non sense.The Integra 9 series and more recently their 40 series (SE only.... 80 = xlr), are well received by the press and aren't to h... | |
| Is HDMI worth the upgrade? Some factors affecting pricing of aV processors & receivers is the truncated time frame from one itteration to another. Annually and sometimes less than annually, newer models come onto the HT scene from about every manufacturer. As for the l... |