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| Need recommendations for inexpensive power cord I second the suggestion about power cords from Signal Cable. I've had 3 or 4 in the past couple years. They're very solid construction, sound good (as much as any competently designed & constructed power cables do), and are inexpensive.I also ... | |
| Am I an Audiophile, a music lover-or both? If you really love music, you revel in it even via a tiny handheld radio; or on a giant audiphile-approved system...or just the distant sound of a guitar or other instrument played well by someone.On the other hand, listening to music through a hi... | |
| Is tonearm cable the most important cable in the system ? There's little you can do about the wiring to cartridge when the TT's wiring is "captive" (ie, non-detachable/replaceable). But if you have RCA L+R jacks on outside of your TT, what you CAN do is up your game by getting the best possible cable to ... | |
| Advise on TT Support Platform Your anti-footfall solution is massively engineered and will no doubt work. Far be it from me to discourage such an innovative & effortful concept.However, I suspect the following would work just as well. This is something I planned to do base... | |
| Power Cords I second the previous comment about Signal Cable power cables. I've owned 4-5 of these, from top to bottom of the line--all sound great & are built like tanks.Mine is a very good desktop system, not a full-blown audiophile system in living roo... | |
| Digital coax cable, real world experiences? Most of my listening for the past decade has been desktop audio +/- headphones. I started using a S/PDIF converter years ago w/the 1st musical fidelity unit (I'm now up the 24/192 model). Anyway, for a long time I used toslink/glass to connect to ... | |
| What direction is VPI headed? It has been a very long time since I owned a VPI table (late '80s)...but all I have is good memories of the wonderful sound, also the customer support I got from VPI on the very infrequent instances I needed some kind of assistance.There are reaso... | |
| Best Budget RCA cables Just posted this link in response to a different topic here...My go-to for inexpensive-but-good interconnects (and power cables) is Signal Cable: http://signalcable.com/analog_interconnects.htmlI have 4-5 prs of analog 2 RCA interconnects. The bui... | |
| Man this is frustrating My go-to source for interconnects & power cables is Signal Cable. Their prices are more than reasonable; built-quality & sound of cables more than satisfactory; and the guy who owns the place is tops in customer service.Here's a link to in... | |
| Good Bass Recordings on CD for Subwoofer Testing Second "Morph the Cat" (astounding for demo of entire bass range...not just extension, but explosive dynamics).2 others that also have a ton of bass:-- Little Roy, "Battle in Seattle," extremely well recorded & produced reggae covers of Kurt C... | |
| Yggy DAC I have owned multiple DACs over the years--all connected with desktop audio, and none in the multi $1K range common in big living room audiophile setups (which I had years ago, pre-DACs). Anyway, I have most definitely heard differences between va... | |
| Warm, lush and dark ... Dac up to 1.2K 2 general suggestions to provide the lush, non "digital" sounding digital signal you want:1 - Any resistor ladder (R2 R) DAC, as opposed to the more common delta-sigma design; 2 - And the ultimate R2 R variant: non-oversampling.I own 1 of each, bo... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I haven't had my analog rig set up since 1990, so take this comment with a grain of salt. When my big living room system was at its peak in our previous house (VPI TT/Grado Arm/Vandersteen 4s/tube amps, preamps), I found out the hard way these 2 t... | |
| How much does DAC ‘Reality’ cost in 2017? I've recommended these things a few times before on Audiogon:-- TECHNOLOGY: the best "digital" I've ever heard is R2 R (resistor ladder) designs.-- I own 2 of those: the Audio GD DAC-19; and the Audio GD NOS 19 (the non-oversampling version of the... | |
| Which dac or other suggestions I've been away from big living room systems for quite awhile (ie, tube preamps, amps, subs/speakers). It has been all desktop audio for me over the past decade.I've owned 4 DACs for the desktop. Never heard any big-bucks audiophile approved models... |