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| Mark Levinson 39 I owned an No.39 for 3 years, during which time I went back and forth on the issue of running it direct vs. using a separate pre-amp. There is a clarity and purity and image stability you get by running direct, which is mighty appealing. But when ... | |
| Powersnakes power cords I was stunned by the improvements I heard when I first put a Black Mamba in my system. And I want to add that this cord is very flexible (physically, it bends easily), which I consider a MAJOR plus. Some cords on the market are so stiff that if ca... | |
| sacd list Boy, I wish I did. This is sorely needed. The best lists I've seen are at MusicDirect and Acoustic Sounds, but both are incomplete by a long shot. Red Trumpet lists some of the only-in-Japan SACDs. | |
| VeryOldHeardIt All-SACD Rules-SayethGOD The new Springsteen Live in New York has been released on SACD (or it's imminent). | |
| Sony SCD777ES skipping problem Great feedback everyone, thanks. I tried washing the most recent problem disc today and darned if that didn't fix it. Nevertheless, it's annoying and not something I've encountered with other players. Part of the appeal of CDs has always been that... | |
| Best audio racks I have and did not find anything, so I asked it here. How dare you! | |
| Best audio racks Anyone have experience with any of the Billy Bags racks? Opinions? | |
| Speaker Polarity Testing If you reverse the leads on just one speaker, you will be running your system out of PHASE (unless one of the speakers is wired differently from the other). This should be very noticeable to you as a lack of image specificity--for example, a vocal... | |
| Dodson MKll D, Levinson 360S, dCS Delius Try to listen to all of them first. I think the Levinson deserves consideration. | |
| SACD Dominates Recommended List I want to agree with and reiterate Ken's excellent first paragraph above. CD offered quantum improvements for the mainstream music listener, the likes of which we will not see again. Sonics aside, the covenience, ease of use, and longer playing ti... | |
| SACD Dominates Recommended List Both companies also have had some pretty stellar successes, does no one remember those? | |
| Placette anyone have any opinions? I am a bit puzzled by the last two posts. The full-function Placette (approx $4K), which I have, CAN be built with gain. But the standard unit is buffered passive all the way. ALthough the ergonomics could be better, this thing strikes me as damn ... | |
| Buying "Sound Unheard" One element of all this is, as they used to say at Apple, the journey is the reward. Just about every component I try in my system teaches me something about how I hear, what I like and don't like, what matters most to me (today, anyway), and what... | |
| PS Audio Ultimate outlet Okay, maybe I gave the guy too much benefit of the doubt. And Doug, I certainly did not have you in mind.I do think there is sometimes too much knee-jerk, often hostile rejection of any challenges to our subjectivist observations. And I hate to se... | |
| PS Audio Ultimate outlet The vitriol heaped upon stevemj tells me, more than anything else,that,far from having the open minds they proclaim to have, some audiophiles around here are quite closed minded. If your minds are open to hearing musically important differences wh... |