decooney
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| This cable game is making my head spin @blue_collar_audio_guy Thats a negative. Putting the silver cords anywhere in the preamp, amp or both brings out way to much harshness for my liking. Bob Dylan’s harmonica becomes ear screeching for example. ^^ This is telling^^. Btw, I ru... | |
| This cable game is making my head spin @blue_collar_audio_guy if doable, what happens if you swap the Audio Sensibility Impact copper cables upstream closer to your source / phono preamp, and moving the silver cables downstream in the chain - does it smooth out a little more for you? | |
| Cable brands that work well with Cardas? @marco1 Have both orig. and rev 1. Unless you listen side by side you’ll never hear the difference and even if you do probably still won’t. @marco1 Will follow up. iirc, that was about the time they went from soldered to the newer solderless... | |
| Cable brands that work well with Cardas? @rsf507 I once had Cardas Clear interconnects and went to Audiomica and find they had a more musical presentation at a much lower price. Then got Audiomica sc and have never looked back. Do you recall if you had the original version of the "... | |
| Good read: why comparing specifications is pointless @ticat OMG people... Stop Feeding the Trolls! This thread went south a long time ago. | |
| Good read: why comparing specifications is pointless @ghdprentice ..."I would not begin to consider evaluating a single new component without listening to it for a couple months. This would be only after being completely familiar with my system without change for months… many months. ... Exact... | |
| Cables to settle brightness While all of my former Cardas Golden Cross and Golden Reference interconnects found new homes with owners of brighter sounding class A/AB solid-state amplifiers, the new "Clear" line from Cardas is notably different. Then within the clear line, ... | |
| Solid state to tube @ecpninja, Reading there is no tube in your totaldac, and your plan to keep using your ss amplifer, seems to me you are in an ideal situation for a really good tube preamplifier if you want this type of sound. What @yyman23 describes above was my... | |
| Cable brands that work well with Cardas? +Cardas Clear Cygnus vs. Analysis Plus Crystal RCA interconnects ---------------- Past few weeks I've been intermixing both of these within my system too. I was trying to decide to stay all-AP or all-Cardas having full sets of both. Looks l... | |
| Cables to settle brightness @millercarbon what is better than a well-matched system? | |
| Cables to settle brightness DACs and Cables can both impact the sound in unexpected ways. Run a less transparent dac with smoothed over cables, can be veiled over. Run an overly transparent dac with extra transparent interconnects, fatiguing. A neutral non-oversamplin... | |
| Solid state to tube @ecpninja if you are more use to the type of drive your Meitner MTR-101 mono amps have now, and even though your speakers spec is 8ohm / 92db sensitivity, the room size and desired volume listening levels is a real factor to consider. Coming fr... | |
| Solid state to tube @charles1dad "Probably due to the very simple circuit and high built quality" With less in the signal path, sometimes simple sounds better too 👍 | |
| Solid state to tube @ecpninja I've read some folks claim to have used your 8ohm speakers with some lower powered tube amps, however as mentioned by @dekay the room size and what volume levels / dynamic preferences you like to listen for can help narrow it down some. ... | |
| Looking for some listener experience with the Cary SLP-30. Just bought one… +1 to what @pwerahera mentioned about inverted polarity on many of the Cary preamps. Same with my SLP-98 pre, as noted - just reverse the wires on the speaker side. It's not an issue per se', just how the preamp was designed, intentionally. |