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| The truth about interconnects - can you handle it? Dandreescu,The point is not to remember which cable has tighter bass or high. The point is: do you like the sound/music or not after you listen and tweak for enough time? So you know the best you can get from this cable. Very often, a component im... | |
| To balance or not to balance, that is the question If your pre and amp are balaced CKT, use XLR cable.You will find gain is ~3 dB higher, i.e. louder at the same preamp vol. position.The bass is tighter and high has better resolution, and the sound is overall "cleaner".It does sound better, not ju... | |
| The truth about interconnects - can you handle it? Actually, most of people can tell the difference between cables. It just takes more CD and system tweak to make sure what you think better is generally true for most of music and the variation of your system setup. Any component, like source, IC, ... | |
| The truth about interconnects - can you handle it? The best way is to live with the component under test for three months. Blind test is not a very accurate way to compare different components anyway. As posted by others, a normal listening is not to switch cable every 5 min, I don't care you doub... | |
| Anybody stop using power conditioning? Don't share transport or CD player to your amp's on the same outlet. This seems the most effective way to remove the grainy high if rest of components are already fine. I used to have Martin Logan, and it is the best sensor to power line noise. Yo... | |
| How does Sony DVP-S9000ES compare to other Sony's? I have one for more than one year now. It is sensitive to power cable, therefore, make sure you have good power conditioning and cable for it(I use Ernie's Beldon 83802).Shunyata sidewinder is very good to my setup also. It is a pretty good SACD p... | |
| Role of HDCD in an upsampling world If you are looking for newer technology, why not SACD? Either stay with CD (upsample?) or go with SACD. HDCD? Where should HDCD go? If even SACD/DVD-A can't survive, will HDCD have future? | |
| Amp/Int. Amp to smooth the highs... I got better sound when power is around 150 W or above (SS amp). Yes, it took me almost 100 hours for breaking-in. | |
| Running balanced. Difference between XLR vs. RCA. If SE CKT, using RCA or XLR IC would make difference. But for balanced CKT, XLR will benefit from more gain, CMRR, .... CMRR is more the power supply related, a better power supply will help also. Lower RF noise will help both SE and BL, but not m... | |
| Audio Research CD-3 VS Cary 306/200 Zargon,Interesting comment on ARC's decision not to upsample on CD3. It takes some confidence and guts not to follow the majority of others. I am not sure when people will start to feel "that's enough for this upsampling thing". Pretty soon, we wi... | |
| Would this be an upgrade? Sorloski,Try P1/P3(D.W. Mod one) with S9000ES as trasport. The same DAC I try Accuphase, ML transport also. Although I agree the two transports are better than S9000ES, the margin is not big enough for a few thousand more. Playing a good SACD, I t... | |
| What preamp? ARC's own preamp.BAT, CJ, EAR will work too.VT-100 is balanced, so a balanced preamp should be better.Good luck! | |
| Would this be an upgrade? SONY S9000ES is pretty sensitive to power cable (& therefore power conditioning). You may try different cables with it. Did not own THETA, many think they are good tranports. As a CD player, S9000ES can't compete with those top rated ones. As ... | |
| Getting into audio for around 3500$...problems... Although speaker makes the most difference, you can't use an entry level Denon to drive those speakers mentioned in your list, especially Merlin and DynAudio. I second that CDP direct to power amp might be a bad idea. You need a good luck to get g... | |
| Here's why amps can be more important than speaker Hi, If you worry about amp blowing up your speakers, add some fuses for speakers. But in normal condition, it seldom happen unless someone accidentally turn the volume close to max. Human ears can take so much dB, and most of speaker would be too ... |