ddrave44
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| Dynaudio Contour 30 vs. Focal Kanta No. 2 speaker I've heard the Kanta 2's and those tweeters are very aggressive. I'd be careful and only buy them if you've had + a chance to hear them. I haven't heard the Contour 30s but every Dynaudio speaker I've ever heard has been smooth and full. Two very... | |
| Merrill Audio Element 116 Review I know this is an older thread but OP said something interesting about phase with Sasha DAWs. I bought a pair in the spring and they're pretty well broken in now, but it wasn't until I reversed polarity on the tweeters that the imaging locked int... | |
| Rockport Avior 2 vs Wilson Sasha DAW I've heard them extensively with CJ tubes and two different NAIM setups. NAIM is great, but IMHO the tube gear brings these speakers up to a higher level. | |
| Rockport Avior 2 vs Wilson Sasha DAW With the Sasha DAWs you've picked a magnificent pair of speakers. They're very true to the source electronics and I'd strongly recommend you run them with tubes. The combination is wonderful. | |
| Replace CJ with new equipment I went from a PV12 to a CJ CT5. Big improvement while keeping the CJ house sound. Gutsier with more detail and better imaging. I'd consider that or its replacement the ET5. These also come with the Teflon caps referenced above. | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? +1rauliruegas8,955 posts11-05-2018 5:03pmDear @madavid0: What needs a good cartridge from the tonearm?:- pretty decent bearing ( it does not needs the " hardest " one. ) design.- very well damped- first rate (silver ) internal wiring with very be... | |
| I need your help. I have an ARC Ref 3, ARC 110, Vandersteen 5As, but no turntable. The ARC Reference 3 a magnificent phonostage. So is the Ref2.Shelter and Lyra make terrific cartridges.I have a Linn table that I love, but there are a lot of good ttables out there. No question that matching arms and cartridges gets tricky. Good... | |
| What are the best entry level integrated amps and speakers? +3 for NAD | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? With OPs original question on this it wasn't clear to me that the equipment had even been broken in. | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? Wow, just reading this 15-month thread would be a education in cable theory and practice for a newbie. Anyway to the point, I think there's an element of the weakest link in this. If your system is very transparent the differences in cables will... | |
| Shopping for Interconnects Transparent +1 | |
| Recordings with incredible effects or imaging that we may not know about The first few seconds of Simple on Collective Soul's CD Collective Soul come in above my right ear. +1 on 10cc | |
| Is using streaming services worthy of an audiophile? Yes, the Unitiserve looks up the album title and song titles online. It runs through several online lookup services till it finds the title. It also picks up the cover art, performers, composers... If the title isn't available it generates a ran... | |
| Is using streaming services worthy of an audiophile? Hi Defiant, To your original question about whether streaming is worthy of an audiophile, I'd say the answer can be yes. I don't have Tidal, but there are other methods. I'm using a Naim UnitiServe which gets the broadband music feeds from radio... | |
| Need suggestions please! Electrical noise in my system and it's driving me crazy! A TII 220 ground loop isolator put in between the cable line and cable box did it for me. Best $22 I ever spent. This was after checking grounding, electricians that found nothing and adding a hydra 8 into the system. Good luck. |