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| Replacement for Nordost Cables in my system? i also agree that the red dawns (and blue heavens) are a bit harsh on treble (as interconnects, that is).i have vdh firsts, seconds, "the bay"s, orchids, and digicouplers (some of which i do use as analog interconnects) and i would say that they a... | |
| HDMI Cable i can't address the audio of the cables, as i run spdifs to the preamps, but the most "realistic" looking hdmi i've found is the audioquest level 3. i will loosely and subjectively define "realistic" as having the most natural color balance (even ... | |
| A tale of WAF i have always found that speakers and components have a complex waf-interaction, but cables ALWAYS have a strong anti-waf field around them that attracts waf-ire like a magnet.... a frigid magnet?no, disregard that last comment. it's me with the p... | |
| Coax vs. Toslink good stuff - i'm always interested in people's set ups.perhaps more of a function of the comcast box, unfortunately, but, like you say, who knows...sometimes you just can't figure out why things sound the way they do.i have comcast as well and had... | |
| Why the obsession with the lowest octave i relate to what ecruz said.the first time i hooked up subs it totally baffled me how the soundstage expanded.also the perception of low level detail. | |
| Speaker appearance verses musicality. just be sure you keep the box that the foam came in, your wife will need packing materials when she moves out.or you could send me the box, my wife mainly hates cables, and those boxes aren't really big enough for most of her things.seriously, tho... | |
| Why the obsession with the lowest octave remind me never to post a picture of my gallo reference avs with dual spherical subs... | |
| Tube Preamp suggestion for the uninitiated awww, poor belkin getting thrown under the bus!their pureav stuff is actually good - and really good for the prices you can usually find them.their speaker cables in particular are really quite good.poor widdle bewlkin. | |
| Is my YBA amp enough to run Martin Logan Vistas? one more caveat: i'm assuming that the specs i saw are for your amp, but i have no way of being sure about that.i think it said 140w into 4 ohms, which is totally fine. | |
| Is my YBA amp enough to run Martin Logan Vistas? one amp will do the trick when the panel and sub posts are jumpered (they come with brass jumpers installed), but using seperate amps for each will relieve the treble amp of the strain of driving the bass woofers, which, in the vista are passive, ... | |
| Long Cables w/Short Speaker Cable or Vice Versa? i have tg audios that sound terrible when you reverse the direction.they are my favorite speaker cables otherwise.i think there are a lot more variables to these things than can be put into sound bites. | |
| Is my YBA amp enough to run Martin Logan Vistas? yeah, like stanwal says, be sure that your amp is stable into lower impedences. i think my summits go down to around 1 ohm as well. that being said, i don't think the panels need a ton of power, and if i recall correctly, the woofer in the vista i... | |
| Who are these crazy people? hearing someone slightly annoying talk about an album i love (in this case dark side of the moon) makes me sad. | |
| Balanced XLRs to cable RCAs both the pre and the amp are sunfire, so i'd be amazed if the pins were in different orders.i have the sunfire cinema grand II and the sunfire tgp5 and they sound noticeably better to my ears with xlrs (when fed from other preamps as well).i also ... | |
| biwire trick you guys just got almarged. |