cleeds
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| XLR cables for a reasonable price? inna One of the problems, and a big one, as I see it, is Ralph’s endless self-advertising. As if there were no other good amps or engineering approaches. There are, and many. I believe that manufacturers and dealers should be honorably dismi... | |
| What’s the most underrated used Audio Research gear? The D200 and D300 SS amplifiers still sound great even today. The SP-11 with its SS power supply was another exceptional unit. | |
| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, I'm still enjoying my Infinity IRS Beta speaker system and have no plans to replace it. | |
| XLR cables for a reasonable price? atmasphere Opamps can generate a balanced output easily enough, but not one that is floating. Correct. And I know you are really focused on the AES48 balanced standard, because you keep mentioning it. But you’ll just have to accept that ma... | |
| Balanced XLR vs RCA for phono stage ghdprentice Nice write up. It hurts me to be the one to tell you, @ghdprentice, but user @tokushi is AI. It's pretty obvious. | |
| XLR cables for a reasonable price? atmasphere ... there are only three ways to do it and they all cost money. One way is to use an output transformer, another way is the way we do it, which we patented. Most high end companies don’t like paying patent fees solely on ego (’not... | |
| REF5SE tubes I've often bought tubes from Music Direct and never had an issue. | |
| Testing Ethernet switch tvrgeek Those of us who are engineers have pointed to real experts on how Ethernet works. We are fully open to new information that can be explained in this universe. So is everyone else here. You hold no exclusivity in that regard. Th... | |
| Audio Research Financial Troubles mulveling I've heard out-of-warranty repairs currently have a long queue (~ 6 months). But in-warranty repairs are another ball of wax. Upgrades (e.g. 6 to 6SE) are also processing very efficiently, much more so than before. It's absolutely ... | |
| Why would someone feel the need to comment unpleasant things on sale posts Some people come here looking for an argument. If they don't find one, they'll manufacture one. Go figure. | |
| CD Transport chayro I had an Esoteric X-05 with a so-called VRDS transport that was just a glorified plastic transport with a top clamp resembling the clamp in the 701. It was nothing like the transports in the higher end Esoteric products. Here's a photo ... | |
| Audio Research Financial Troubles hsounds I own a Ref 5 SE. let me know when I can stop by and grab your Ref 6,3,or 2,SE on the cheap so you do not have to worry anymore. Huh? I already said I’m contemplating trading my 5SE for a 6SE. (I plan to keep my Ref Phono 2SE.) I d... | |
| Audio Research Financial Troubles mulveling ... ARC’s issues have been resolved ... Customers who are waiting months before even being allowed to return their products for service would not likely agree that the issues "have been resolved." The company seems to have acquired t... | |
| Need advice on media player and or dacs tvrgeek ... a streamer is a PC you have less configuration control over ... Most streamers aren't personal computers at all. Most that I've used run on Linux, where you have pretty much total control because it's open source. | |
| Audio Research Financial Troubles I'm a long-time happy ARC customer (going back to the D76A era) but I am not at all convinced that ARC's troubles are over. As far as I can tell, it still has an enormous repair backlog. The "store" link on its website has been dead for years and ... |