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| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit Ivo from your post, I gather you are very enthusiastic about OTA and have had good results. I am happy for you.Maybe my system just isn't good enough for OTA. :) | |
| Cable lengths I have posted this before but... Here is an interesting article on the subject. Click the link below.Equal Length Speaker Cables - Are They Necessary? | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Tubegroover - in the off chance that you have internal quality problems with the unit, it can easily be fixed by anyone with electronics and soldering experience. In fact, I think my preamp is much better after going to a repair shop. The Engineer... | |
| Affordable Transport If you can deal with a drawer that sometimes tries to close before you manage to get a CD in it, the EAD T-7000 is quite easily the best transport I have heard under several thousand dollars and perhaps a bit more.... It is based on a Philips lase... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Fist of all, buying a Supratek is not like buying a product from a "big name" manufacturer where you can expect that every unit produced will be identical and in most respects "flawless" visually. Mick builds each item individually and therefore e... | |
| Beyond SACD with Redbook: Price No Object Over the past few days I have been messing with interconnects and tweaking/tuning my system to accomodate my Sony SACD player. The interconnects I used with the Mephisto weren't exactly right for use with the Sony. They were close but not perfect.... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Arooj, You weren't kidding!!! Mick has a few surprises for later this year!!http://www.cantech.net.au/~supra/highpower.htmlI wonder what the ticket price will be? | |
| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit Hi Asa - The OTA vs. the KSL-SPc (copper) speaker cables is really no contest. While the OTA is decent, it lacks the feeling of the KSL. The OTA is pretty amazing though when you consider how much music comes through that little wire and the bass ... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Jeff is absolutely right! The Supratek (if too many options are added) can be a dog. While the circuit Mick designed is relatively simple, additions like "theater throughput", single box chassis, XLR outputs, remote control, etc. In the early XLR ... | |
| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit Hi Outlier, I have tried nearly everything within reason.. and when I say that, I mean most top end products. I currently use a Audio Note Kondo KSL between the CD player and preamp followed by NBS Statement between the pre and amplifier. I select... | |
| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit Hi Outlier - After 500 hours with OTA, I ended up going back to some very high end interconnects. While the OTA is good and even spectacular for its price (based on the cost of $600 to wire an entire system - not the material cost) I ultimately fe... | |
| Beyond SACD with Redbook: Price No Object Oh boy...Today I received the FIM Hybrid SACD multi-channel version of Jazz at the Pawn Shop. This is absolutely the best I have heard digital sound. I am utterly speachless. | |
| Beyond SACD with Redbook: Price No Object Jadem6 - What is and what is not is relative to personal preference. The "shimmer and sparkle" quality that you speak of is clearly a quality present in SACD music reproduction (on early players). Whether that quality is something "George Lucas" a... | |
| Beyond SACD with Redbook: Price No Object I have to agree with JcbTubes - I too owned the Marantz SA-1 and while it is a great player felt it had a level of detail that was "in your face" on SACDs. Redbook was just okay. I then purchased an EMC-1 MkII and thought it was a bit better. Ulti... | |
| Beyond SACD with Redbook: Price No Object The consensus is AudioNote DAC 5 and CEC TX0 transportNote: I have tried Hybrid SACD/CD's and these disks have such a good redbook CD layer that the SACD layer doesn't seem to be all that much better - at least in terms of early pressings of CD's ... |