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| Copper v. Silver When I use no wire at all, I don't get any sound. | |
| Need advice from OTL experts Great explanation TWL. Thanks. | |
| Musical Fidelity A3.2pre/power vs 308 intergrated A308 integrated has 48 amp peak to peak current. >100dB S/N ratio. Channel separation >70 dB.A3.2cr has 72 amp peak to peak current. >120 dB S/N ratio. Channel separation >89 dB.So measurements for power amp ALONE look better than the 308 | |
| Transitioning: back to solid state.... I would agree with this reviewer on Pass stuff:pass ampMaybe the closest thing you can get to tubes without the tubes??He also made interesting remarks about active crossovers:Furthermore, a speaker enclosure is not an ideal environment for a soph... | |
| Recommended Repair Facility simplyspeaker | |
| Want to get excited about SACD again?? I'm excited about direct-broadcast music. Comparing a burned CD from the radio to the bought CD, direct broadcast had the immediacy and lots of detail but done in a natural way. | |
| B&W 804 nautilus OR Revel f30 F-30 has more bass. Sounds more "clean". N804 sounds more open / less boxy and more "polite". Detail maybe not quite as obvious as on F-30's. | |
| Riddle me this... Not everyone. Red Rose (Levinson) has NEW 35 wpc spirit system for $2,000- speakers / amp / cables.Spirit | |
| Choice of Amps Classe and metal drivers are a terrible match IMO. Or else Revel F-30's, F-50's, M-20's, Joseph Audio 33's are bad speakers. I heard all these with Classe.Bad ringing, harmonics, overbright cymbals.In a review of Classe pwoer amp, I think, Stereop... | |
| Want to get excited about SACD again?? I'm excited about AeroSmiths "Big Ones" CD. Super CD mastered on Apogee's $^&$% digital processor. No SACD player. No HDCD encoding.Do we *REALLY NEED* SACD?? | |
| Vienna Acoustics Vs Sonus Faber How about PSB Stratus Gold's? Under $1,500 used at Audiogon. Bass aplenty. Stereophile raved about midrange clarity too. | |
| Need advice from OTL experts What's "OTL" mean? Over the litterbox? Out to lunch? | |
| Arcam A32 vs. ML 383, Macintosh MA6900, YBA, other As said above, YOUR preferences are more important in this league of quality.My OPINIONS:* Arcam 85 wpc is not enough for N805.* Lower cost McIntosh (<$10,000 or so) are not as clear ML 383 and you will hear the degraded sound on N805's.* YBA i... | |
| Isolation transformers - where do I start? Doing more research, not all isolation transformers are the same.1) "Multi-shielded IT with interwinding capacitance .005 pF max and common mode noise attentuation 126dB. 120 volt / 4.17 amp. $360.00"2) "Low leakage (hospital type): leakage curren... | |
| What prevents DIY speakers to become the ultimate? line arraytry thesehow about $20 |