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| Thiel Owners @sdl4 "You asked about the basic system components..."Thanks for the details. Helps me to think through your experience and how it could relate to what I hear with my gear. | |
| Thiel Owners @duramax or anyone elseI am intrigued by the idea of outriggers for my CS5i's. What I do not understand is, with a nearly 200 pound speaker, how can one expect the outriggers to sound superior to the original Thiel spikes?This is not intended to ... | |
| Thiel Owners @sdl4The sound of the Vovox Sonorus was markedly different! Hi Sdl4, could you share the details of your system - DAC, preamp, amp, etc.?I apologize if I missed it in an earlier post. jafant has done a great job with this thread and I do not alw... | |
| Ever Been Too High? Delta 8 in non-free states? | |
| How important is the pre-amp? @larsmanWhen I added a Herron Audio tube pre-amp to my system, it was an immense change, and all for the better. I have been thinking about a Herron preamp. Why is better than what you had? What did you have before? What's the rest of your system... | |
| Are most tube preamps ‘ultra linear’? ...the ultra-linear’ power doubles. no change in volume when you change back and forth, just a discernible different sound...If you are learning about tubes, this is not remedial. Throw in 4 and 8 ohms taps and I am really lost! :-) | |
| Help with a Passive Preamp I have an Axiom II with Walker mods and use it occasionally. I like the clear presentation that it makes, which reminds me of how I think Audio Research preamps sound to me.But after a while I find it a bit fatiguing in my system. I reinsert my C... | |
| Fidelity vs. Musicality...........Is there a tug of War? FWIW.Prat, beat, rhythm, foot tapping or whatever to want to call it. If that is not present, it is not musical for me.After that, as I journey on, I am finding that detail adds to this and makes things even more musical.Thanks for listening,Dsper | |
| Need help buying new speaker cable FWIWIf you have only heard Tara cables, before replacing them or paying for their repair, try some 12 or 14 gauge "lamp cord".While it might not be a popular suggestion on this thread, you might be surprised.Thanks for listening,Dsper | |
| Thiel Owners Sorry about coming in from left field; back on July 23, I wrote: Stager Silver Solids. Quote from Marc Stager:"...it is not how a cable makes music sound great. It's about how it allows music to sound great by not hindering its transmission in an... | |
| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics @millercarbon That's the long answer. The short one is: What part of "rent free" do you not understand? For sure. | |
| Critical listening and altered states I feel pretty strongly that I ought to be sober when evaluating gear. Costs too much not to be.My reference point is that typically an album I first listened to with a high or buzz on and then listened to a week later, more often than not, sounded... | |
| older CD transport vs newer ones. FWIW, I was using an AudioSpace CD8 (Phillips laser and 12 years old and $900) as a transport only going to a Theta ProBasic III DAC.Moved to a PS Audio PWT (memory player that was/is also 12 years old and listed for $4000) and the PWT blew the CD... | |
| A DIY Swarm-based Distributed Bass Array for SOTA Bass Excuse the typo; I forgot to delete the "and...ignorant." | |
| A DIY Swarm-based Distributed Bass Array for SOTA Bass Hi All,I get the science of Distributed Bass Array.My reluctance to trying it is simple. and causes me to ask this ignorant . How does this work with my preamp?My Conrad Johnson 17LS2 has two line outs.Is it as simple as the using the line 1 for ... |