danvignau
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| XLR connectors With longer runs for interconnects, XLR definitely is better. With my 18" wiring, I hear no difference when I switch from one to the other. The XLR will stay plugged in, but I sent and amp module back for repair, and it was good. I had a bad XL... | |
| Who buy PS AUDIO ? As nice as their designer is in the videos, remember that when compared to other equipment in stores, the company did not do well, and switched to mail order only. One might think that since high end audio prices are half dealer profit, either th... | |
| A Soundsmith Re-tip Believer I am always surprised when you guys use the term "Dead Quiet". Hasn't everything in the last 40 years been dead quiet? After all, we had to send an analogue signal to the moon, then send back an analogue reply from a battery power supply. Sinc... | |
| End of the World system Search somewhere for solar cells, because no one is alive to man the generators. | |
| Tweaks - An Honest Discussion I have a pal who spent at least hundreds on turntable tweaks. His TT and cartridge are crap, IMHO. In fact, the very prominent piano intro at the beginning of Zappa's Uncle Remus, nearly disappears on his system. No tweak helps. DOH! | |
| Are manufacturer AC cables good enough? I went to such a test. About 50% picked the more expemsiver power cord. We did find a difference in interconnects, but only the very cheapest were picked very often as the worse of a choice. The others were about 50-50, with mostly guessing. T... | |
| Are manufacturer AC cables good enough? PLACEBO EFFECT: The more you spend, the better it sounds. We trust the designers and manufacturers to make really good equipment. Would they really sell something as cheap to make as a power cord if it made their great design sound worse? It t... | |
| Has anyone else auditioned something that really was terrible? RE; Mismatched components. Yes, if an amp is such a cheap design that the power supply will not driver certain speakers, thent it is mismatched to all but efficient speakers. I'll give an example of the difference power supplies: The very nice,... | |
| On-Line Concerts for the Virus Age Alice Cooper Live from Austin, for me a top three rock band along with Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull, and MUSE, Live from the Olympic Stadium in Rome, a band I normally can barely tolerate for a song or two. | |
| How do you sort your LPs? 1- Genre2- Artist by Alphabet | |
| When Did Your System Disappear? It first happened when I went from my (Shure V-15) Crown IC150, and Phase Linear 400 driven stacked Advents to Audire electronics, (Supex 900 Mark IV cartridge), driven B&W's, followed by gradual enhancements over the decades with upgrade... | |
| How far away from your speakers are you? My dual Audire dual mono powered amps feed older B&W 803 II Matrix speakers on 10", time aligned positioned subs a bit over 2 feet from the back wall of windows, 4 1/2 feet apart in a 12 foot wide room that is 9 feet deep, The speaker/... | |
| Has anyone else auditioned something that really was terrible? Auditioning for "pirates..." counts on any of my worst lists, even bicycles. | |
| Is it all worth it? When I sit back and listen to something from my babied selection of LP's, especially when it is not available on CD's, I am happy. Since I spent half a century perfecting my system with multiple, switchable, sub crossovers form matched amps and p... | |
| What country builds the best audio equipment? Anyone who picks a country is delusional. |