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| Book Shelf Speaker advice - Formerly Book Shelf Dilemma @grislybutter Thank you for the compliment. FWIW the Elac was used in my home office, not the one shown in my virtual system. | |
| Book Shelf Speaker advice - Formerly Book Shelf Dilemma @grislybutter One of my best friends bought a pair of their subs to fill in where his single driver high efficiency speakers were incapable of and seems to be happy with them, but I can’t say he’s experienced with sub integration. He also lives th... | |
| Book Shelf Speaker advice - Formerly Book Shelf Dilemma If you don’t plan to have a ton of space behind them, consider front ported speakers. Elac UBR62 might be a pair to consider. I thought them to be very good for the money. They were Andrew Jones’ last speaker designs for ELAC prior to making the s... | |
| Rhodium...hmmm Rhodium isn’t typically selected for its conductance characteristics, but for its durability. Generally, via plating, it is very thin, very even, and very hard. Th hardness/smoothness allows for a consistent delivery of current on contacts similar... | |
| Cartridges +1 @dover I have witnessed this owning many VPI unipivot arms from the basic aluminum JMW 10.5, the 10” 3D with Valhalla wire, and two 12” 3DR. They are actually decent tonearms, but in hindsight I would never recommend putting a $5K+ cartridge ... | |
| Synergistic Research Euphoria HC power cord. @bwguy A few months ago, I did a bit of a power cable shootout including the following: Synergistic Research Atmosphere UEF Level III (not HC) Synergistic Research Atmosphere X Euphoria (not HC) Synergistic Research Galileo SX Shunyata Sigma N... | |
| DH Labs @drmuso and @baylinor … I personally find the BL-1 (aka the Silversonic cable) to be quite revealing but lean and can be seen as bright if your equipment is already transparent. I’m surprised you couldn’t tell a difference with the BL-1 iCable com... | |
| DH Labs @builder3 If you had bought the Dimension brand new, I suggest you swap the stock cables back in. It takes quite a while, at least a few hundred hours of play, for the Dimension to break in since phono signals are very delicate, and they are a bit... | |
| DH Labs @audphile1 They are quite good and will bring a faster, more open/transparent sound and dynamics compared to any stock copper cable. The cabling design (conductors, dielectric, etc) itself is similar to that of the Air Matrix, but with even lower ... | |
| DH Labs @builder3 If you haven’t tried the Air Matrix Cryo, they may be worth trying. As good as the original AM cables are, the Revelation have more inner detail and refinement, but at the expense of some tonal density and bass strength. The AM Cryo impr... | |
| DH Labs Great to hear! As a teaser, I’m well aware that DH Labs has a site-wide Black Friday / Cyber Monday sale every year. You might want to visit their site during that time. | |
| rca or usb digital @ckr1969 With the Aurender N20, AES is best, followed by RCA / Coax. This is due to the N20’s clock being far superior to that of the one inside the Aavik. Given the way each cable’s interface works, AES and Coax will use the clock in the Aurender... | |
| DH Labs That’s great to hear considering the Nordost cost almost twice the Air Matrix Cryo. The AM Cryo are very, very good for their price point. For me, it took a MSRP $2K+ Synergistic Research Atmosphere UEF Level 3 to beat them, and I’ve since upgrade... | |
| Streamer Recommendation. +1 @musicfan2349 on keeping the mesh satellite at least a few feet away from other audio electronics, especially tube preamps, and plan to use a good quality Ethernet cable to connect from the satellite into the unit. | |
| Streamer Recommendation. You’ve got a really nice system there. I particularly love both Joseph Audio and Luxman. I’m an Aurender dealer, so take that into consideration, but there is a lot of love for the Aurender N200 on this forum. It retails $6,000, and while it doesn... |