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| Advice from apartment dwellers Try Balanced Audio Technology VK300-SE matched to Thiel 2.7.You'll want to upgrade to NOS 6H30 "Super Tubes" (made 20-30 years ago for Soviet Air Force) to realize unit's full potential.Single crystal wire completes the picture (Wireworld, Harmoni... | |
| Single ended RCA preamp short list Wyetech Opal. | |
| ARC Preamp for ARC M100s? I always wanted an ARC SP-14 but couldn't afford one.It uses a single tube (for the phono section) and reviewers regarded it as something special.These sell for the $1000 you mentioned.Happy Holidays! | |
| Quality toslink cable ...Just purchased a Wireworld Supernova toslink cable from Ron at Liquid HiFi in Charlotte, NC.This toslink uses multiple glass fibers (not the common plastic) and works well between my Oppo 105 and Rega DAC.I like it... | |
| Best "Rock/Pop" Debut Album? How about Hudson Bays "Masked Marauders"? | |
| Name That CD Player A 50 pound CD player?Must be stuffed with lead bars... | |
| Tinnitus I've noticed that since I've stopped using earplugs when I sleep, I sometimes wake up with water in the ear canal. I'm very afraid of ear infections so I immediately pop a Mucinex which dries things up nicely. As for tinnitus, I've heard caffine a... | |
| What cables are you running with your ARC gear I used Harmonic Technology with ARC for years.I'm using Wireworld now and think it's great(Eclipse 7 between BAT VK300SE and Thiel 2.4SE).Guess I'm a fan of high-purity single crystal copper.Ron at Liquid Hi-Fi (Charlotte, NC) will take care of you. | |
| By running speaker calibration volume drops down t I had the same problem trying to use my he-man integrated with my HT receiver. My int manual said: "for HT bypass, set to level 115" (normal listening is 60-70). This gave me so much gain I think it caused a tube to malfunction.Even so, the RCA ou... | |
| How Things Change Think of your consciousness as a camera lens and your knowledge as auto-focus.As your knowledge expands, you focus on different things or see a previous road traveled in a new light. | |
| Gov't Mule last night....much better than stereo What a great LBBC theater! (Life Before Bean Counters) | |
| SACD... can you hear the difference? Don't forget the old standby argument:"If you can't hear the difference, your system isn't good enough". | |
| No audio playing SACD"s SACD can go over HDMI cable (to an SACD enabled AV receiver for example). Not sure about RCA, XLR, USB or optical... | |
| No audio playing SACD"s If your cable is going to a non-SACD DAC, there could be a problem... | |
| Anybody heard of GZ Vinyl? Slaw, man,There is NO SUCH THING as quality vinyl.I take more than adequate preparation and care before playing any of my LPs -and -guess what?"TIC" "POP" "Fizzle", "FART" (O.K., maybe the fart was me).Point is, if you're pining for a blissful pla... |