carlsbad2
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| 32 pairs of speaker and RCA cables measured and listened to I'd like to see various member's opinions on what parameters they would measure to judge the performance of an interconnect. | |
| Electrostatics and tubes I tested my ML CLS, a very hard speaker to drive, when I had a Decware ZMA (pp, 24 wpc) and it did well in the midrange and highs, where that speaker thrives. with a subwoofer, it sounded great. As others have said, the ESL series should work ... | |
| Audiogon seller's question Just to help a bit here: some people in this thread are confusing seller protection and buyer protection. Jerry | |
| Are all streamers the same? dogma is defined as a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true. I would say that if there is dogma in streamers, it is that quality matters. The statement that they are all the same is more conspiracy the... | |
| Spades vs. Banana plugs ?? @mitch2 Great summary of choices with BFA. KLEI is always great. But I prefer the simple one that you linked last. Crimpable and solderable. low mass. Simple and effective. Not that the others aren't great. Jerry | |
| Spades vs. Banana plugs ?? Surprised there isn't more love for the BFA style banana plug: 1. More surface area to make good contact, more than a spade. 2. No spring steel needed (yes, traditional bananas are often gold plated steel, put a magnet on them). 3. Crimpable ... | |
| Do high dollar mono blocks truly improve the Sound Quality over the mid tier amps Evaluate amp vs amp and ignore the mono-block vs traditional. Sure Mono blocks can have some advantages, but many top amps are built as 2 monoblocks in traditional chasses. Monoblocks increase the length of the signal cables while reducing the l... | |
| Amplifier Power tubes - important to sound? @jasonbourne71 They make adapters. Very common. | |
| Those magical days when the HVAC is off @sns 100% agree that I think the big difference is background noise, both inside and outside the home. For a second I thought I was accidentally reading my own post. | |
| Want to build a rack with sandwich layered dampening I'm a physicist with a good understanding of vibration. And it isn't clear to me whether the elastomer will help or hurt. Good question. My solution is to build a rack without shelves. Where shelves would be I put a horizontal metal bar on th... | |
| Spades vs. Banana plugs ?? spades can twist and short, killing your amp. My main concern. I use low mass connectors for both binding posts and banana plugs. So I use BFA style bananas. Jerry | |
| I'll welcome myself back after a brief hiatus Welcome back. Any music is better than no music. | |
| Amplifier Power tubes - important to sound? I did a lot of rolling on this class tube, kt88, kt66, 6L6, 7581a, 807A, russian tubes I don't remember the number of, and they all sounded different. It seems invariably I liked the new sound (human nature) at first but after going thorugh perh... | |
| Those magical days when the HVAC is off "Power Conditioning" is a catchall term that can mean just about anything. Many will disagree with me, but they are the same people I see arguing because they mean one thing by the term and the other person means something else. I think of power... | |
| Has anyone upgraded the crossovers on Spatial Hologram M4 series loudspeakers? I haven’t done these speakers but have done others. Here is my guideline. If Erik Squires were here he has done more and has more cautions to add. I assumed the OEM designed a good crossover with the right frequency cutoffs but just didn’t use gre... |