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| Thoughts on the most difficult instruments for speakers to reproduce? The obvious/tried-and-tested options are all mentioned above (ie, piano; massed strings; muted trumpet). But another instrument that tests speakers/entire system in a very different way is the vibraphone ("vibes"). This is primarily played in acou... | |
| NOS DAC Warmth Yes, all NOS DACs are R2R ("multibit") designs. They are multibits that are non-oversampling.There are also a great many multibit DACs that are non NOS.I own one of each: Audio GD NOS 19, the non-oversampling variant of this standalone multibit DA... | |
| speakers with balls I'm running a pair of ATMs (SCM12 Pro) on my desktop--and I'm immensely impressed by these big 2-ways. They eat power for breakfast (powering them w/Wyred4Sound ST500 amp @255WPC). They can get so much louder than I would be able to tolerate in th... | |
| The ups and downs of tube vs. SS... 30+ yrs ago I had a major love affair with tubes in my big living room system: 2 X RM9 tube amps; each w/a pentode/triode switch at base of each of the 8 tubes (EL34 or KT-88). Had a big SS amp on the subs, tubes on everything else...+ a VTL "Ulti... | |
| Oyaide Cables My only experience w/Oyaide cables has been truly excellent: I was using a Billy Jeans digital/coax cable for some time to connect the output of my S/PDIF converter (Musical Fidelity V-Link 192/24) to DAC (Audio GD NOS 19). I was happy with that, ... | |
| Why so few speakers with Passive Radiators? As I look back on various speakers I've had over the years, the very best sound, particularly in lower registers, came from sealed designs. This was true with big living room speaker systems; and it's true in the last 2-3 powered monitor set-ups o... | |
| Vandersteen 4 Just seeing this fascinating string, years after the last post. For some reason I thought I was the only one who knew about the Vandersteen 4's...apparently not.I bought a used pair of 4s in 1987 or so. They were $3K used at that time (arrived on ... | |
| 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... |