dekay
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| Keeping cables off the floor Yes, as far as the speaker cables go, it has made a noticeable improvement in my system which has 17' speaker cable runs. I hang my cables from the bottom of standard book shelves with silk ribbon ties and run them across the bottom of a doorway b... | |
| Cumulative Effects of Cables? I have done it both ways (all silver, all copper and now I use a combination of pure silver and copper "micro" wires), there is really no exact right or wrong, IMO. I have never matched all cables (including the speaker and power cables) from one ... | |
| Acoustic Energy Aegis One Speakers. Try giving them at least 100 hours depending on how high the volume is. I would not play them at high volume for the first 200 hours or so. I have listened to them in the shops quite a few times and like them myself, great speakers at their price ... | |
| Cleaning cd players I also would like to clean my CD player soon and will follow this thread, so no advice on that, but what I use on my CD's are (i)clear (fusion 5) lens cleaning cloths from my eye doctor. They are formulated for specially coated lenses such as mine... | |
| High Efficiency Speakers Lak: I'm glad that someone else has heard of them (the Hammer's) plus a personal reccomendation from a friend at that. I have listened to old Lowthers and found them to be too bright for most source material, IMO, but now understand that they have... | |
| components in your system I never thought of the source material and even that (for me) has gone with time or changed format. I no longer have reel to reel tapes or 8 tracks. I don't have much vinyl left (and nothing to play it back on). We still have quite a few cassettes... | |
| components in your system No Albert, it's a fruit woodie, Persimmon to be exact and it's never had to take a blood presure pill in it's life/existance. | |
| components in your system My stereo cabinet. It is approx. 195 years older than any of the other equipment and it looks great in the corner. It is an angle sided Tansu cabinet meant to be placed under a stairway or sloping ceiling. The rest of the stuff is living (with me)... | |
| High Efficiency Speakers If you have not already, check out Hammerdynamics.com and their $575.00 speaker kit (you supply the cabinet materials). Since you are considering the Bottlehead kits I will assume that you do not want to spend a lot of money. I have not listened t... | |
| Speaker help please for $2000 US Hi Olga: I will put in a late plug for Reynaud speakers. I use the Twins (retail is around $800.00) and would also suggest the Trentes as well if your budget is a bit over $2K. The Twins kill on acoustic music and eveything else that I have thrown... | |
| Isolation vs. Absorbtion Hi Equa: I also play the isolation game and divide it into two categories as follows. The first step is to isolate the platform or shelf (from external vibration) that is beneath the component. I use Vibrapods for this, Redkiwi is currently using ... | |
| Floor Standing "Warm" Speaker If you can, try and audition Reynaud speakers. I have not listened to their larger floor standers, but the Twin and Trente models are what I would consider to be on the warm side of neutral and they are extremely musical (like Vandersteens) and do... | |
| Footers/Shelf Material Hi Sol: I have always had the PC's hanging in the air from the power conditioner to the component. My gear is placed in (and now on top of as well) an old Tansu cabinet and all of the components are at least 5' off the floor. I never upgraded the ... | |
| Power/Line conditioner Sugarbrie: Which APC model (for hifi) are you referring to? We have an APC model LR1250 coming in this week that I was going to try on the main stereo system (it was mentioned in another thread). I need to use it on the computer for now, because o... | |
| Rega Planet vs Cal Audio Labs Icon MK II PS: I meant to say/write coaxial/digital input (not output). |