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| Airsine and other power cables to shortlist I use AirSines with Furutech FI-50s on my Cary 500.1 MBs. I also have AirSines with gold and rhodium plugs. I am a big fan of AirSines, and they do represent an upgrade over the flavor series.. Lot of PC for the money. You might want to shoot Chri... | |
| Speakers for SET 8 Watt 300B system? SM, Charles warning, as usual, is spot on. In my case, last fall I began bringing in monitors to use for a bedroom system. That permitted me to do a careful evaluation in my main rig, and permitted A/B comparison with my beloved Magnepan 3.7's. I ... | |
| Speakers for SET 8 Watt 300B system? I can tell you that a couple of months ago I bought a used pair of Coincident Triumph Extreme MK II monitors. They are 94 dB efficient, and designed to be driven by low powered SETs, like the Coincident Franks, 300b, 8WPC I believe. Now, I am curr... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners Richard, normally, I am not an early adapter to new stuff like the HAPZ1. Your plan to wait is a reasonable one. For me, this was a bit of a retirement present to myself. There were some hooks that got me. The DSD engine was huge. The value propos... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners First of all, I liked the trade down with Buffalo to pick up the CB. This guy paired with Joe Hayden (keep wanting to type Haydn) is going to look pretty good. On Manziel, it is pretty tough for a 5'11" QB to see the field. I am dubious about this... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners A short follow up on last nights listening session. Tonight I gave a quick 2nd listen to the Shostakovich 10 with both the HAPZ1 and the MW 5400. The fairly consistent preference I have had for reproduction of strings via the MW 5400 is primarily ... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners Installment 3 of the stock HAPZ1 vs MW5400 comparison. Tonight's music selection:1) Shostakovich 10 Kitajenko/Gurzenich-Orchester KolnI listened to the music from the beginning through about 5 minutes of the 3rd movement, first with the HAPZ1, the... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners Erm, Thanks, very useful information. I certainly intend to run the experiment you suggest with respect to a DSD download, but I'm not sure I will get this done before the Sony ships out next week. There is a method to my madness. While DSD was on... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners Uomoragno, Couple things. First of all, my problems with Mahler were in iTunes, not in the Sony. If iTunes doesn't get it right, the sony will import it as it exists in iTunes. I have had no instances of tracks getting screwed up in the sony as lo... | |
| Sony HAP 1 ES and adding external Hard Drives Al, it sounds like that might be good news, unfortunately, you might as well be speaking aramaic. :) I know what an external USB drive is, but you lost me on the rest. No doubt, most of the readers will understand what you mean, but for me, unmoun... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners Richard, It appears that iTunes has it in for Mahler 3. I can't get iTunes to find any of my Mahler 3 recordings! One of them wouldn't even transfer into iTunes properly. I completely agree with respect to iTunes. I am still in the exploratory pha... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners Guys, I am pretty sure the HAPZ1 imports cover art directly from Gracenotes, so that what the computer software (iTunes etc) does on cover art is irrelevant. However, the album title and track information does import from the computer program, so ... | |
| Audio Sensibility vs. Signal Cable speaker cable Sunnyjim, I have used budget cables from Signal and anticable in the past, though not the Ultra's you site. However, I would suggest that you take a look at the VH audio offering. I have not yet tried these, but I am absolutely thrilled with the 2... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners Richard, at a high level, I have been very happy with the HAPZ1 based on its sonic merits. Its operation is not perfect for our needs, but it is pretty good in most ways and excellent in others. In my opinion, the sonic merits of the stock HAPZ1 j... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners Lowrider, exactly. While I am not done with my comparison yet, I think it is safe to say the stock HAPZ1 is very good. Having detailed notes on particular pieces of music and having the MW Sony to use as the control for a comparison of the MW HAPZ... |