drubin
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| Coping in an Age of Uncertainty No new format will succeed if everybody chooses to wait and see what happens. I recommend Art Dudley's editorial in the January/February 2001 Listener, in which he draws a comparison to the electric car. Yes, yes, I know, you don't want to spend y... | |
| coax Y connector The Monster splitters I'm familiar with are 75 ohm but they are for the thin-pin connector used for cable TV (what do they call those?). The 75 ohm cables from transport to DAC or recorder will be RCA connectors. Does Monster make an RCA splitter ... | |
| Aleph Owners and Users... The others weren't Class A because they were not specifically reviewed. A few things are rated without review, but generally not. | |
| Aleph Owners and Users... Thanks for the explanation, Tom. | |
| Sony 900ES SACD sound vs CD - Help I do own a 777 Martice. I bought it to use as a transport and to play SACDs and, as Art Dudley suggested in a recent Listener editorial, to vote for the new format with my wallet. But at $1500, it was practically a no-brainer. I am plenty interest... | |
| Sony 900ES SACD sound vs CD - Help Golly Martice, it is so wonderful of you to save us poor slobs from our dumb-ass purchase mistakes. But really, I think everyone on this forum who choses to buy an SACD player is doing so with eyes wide open as far as the viability of the format. ... | |
| Sony 900ES SACD sound vs CD - Help Oh, now that's helpful. | |
| Any experiences with Harbeth monitor 40? Simply Music in Nova Scotia is the North America distributor, and they are a featured Audiogon dealer too. They gave me the impression at CES (in the Audiogon room) that there will be a Harbeth push in the U.S. this year. I'd love to hear them too. | |
| Sound of 777ES during break in? Are you hearing this brightness and sibilance on SACDs also? | |
| Dodson DA-217 MK2-D My 777 is breaking in and will shortly go in to the system with the Dodson, replacing a Levinson transport. I should have a verdict in a couple of weeks. Fingers crossed. | |
| Aleph Owners and Users... Pardon my density here, but if you can't biamp or biwire with your Quads, how are you using the Aleph 3's as monoblocks? It's a stereo amp without bridging capability, is it not? Maybe you are using one channel per amp... | |
| Good percussion recordings Many good suggestions above. There is a gold audiophile edition of Planet Drum--highly recommended. For classical percussion, try the Safri Duo. I recommend two of their recordings on Chandos: "Goldrush", which features some purely percussion arra... | |
| Reynaud Trentes: Opinions and alternates I heard that exact combination of Trentes and Audion Silver in the JM Reynaud room at CES and it was magical indeed. Go for it. | |
| Shunyata Hydra I always look to Microsoft for guidance on audio. :-) | |
| converting standard cable to balanced Some cables can be re-terminated and some can not. For example, Cardas and Hamonic Tech can (I've done it) and WireWorld can not because apparently they use a different cable for the balanced version of Eclipse or whatever vs. the unbalanced versi... |