ejlif
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| Acoustic Zen Hologram vs. A. Plus Silver Oval... I've found another cable that I am really happy with since you posted over a year ago. Argent Audio Jaden Signature. They are certainly worth checking out, I think they outdo AZ and AP by a wide margin. They are available for free audition by Ric ... | |
| What is the standard for judging a systems sound? You are right on Audiotomb. Live music is usually amplified. I was at a concert last night and the sound was excellent, but I could hear the sax 10 ft in front of me center stage as well as commming out of the monitor hanging from the ceiling to m... | |
| Which Tube Amp? I would suggest a set of BAT VK 60 monoblocks. You can order a tube cage direct from BAT. They auto bias and provide 120 watts per side. Heaven for your setup might be a set of BAT VK150SEs, they will cost more than your budget even used, but they... | |
| Audiopax 88 - Tubes experimented with? I just replaced the Svetlana cryo KT88s with some Valve Art Cryo KT88s, and wow what an improvment. Depth and dimetionality went from outstanding to scary real, timbre has a more natural tone. Thinking of trying some Mullard 12AT7s cryo'd of course | |
| Home recording studio questions I have a similar setup that I use to do home recording. My preference is for mac. I have both a G4 desktop style and a laptop. The desktop uses a PCI interface card that runs to a MOTU 2408 MK 3 interface via firewire. The 2408 has 8 ins and outs ... | |
| Wadia 861 or keep Electrocompaniet mk2 It does seem like a waste to have a top notch preamp when you only need one source, especially when there are such great direct to amp CD players out there. I'm like you I only listen to CDs and have no need for switching sources. Plus there is th... | |
| How would you compare Acoustic Zen to Nordost I have compared extensively Quattro Fil with Silver Ref 1. In all contexts I prefered the Silver Ref (which were done with 2 different systems as well as using both cables at the output of a mixing board and comparing the cables via the recording ... | |
| Dish satelite vs Cable quality? I used to have digital cable and switched to Direct TV dish, (no hi def with either) I thought the quality would be so much better with the dish from what I had heard. Personally I don't like either one. The both are a far cry from DVD. It might n... | |
| Vote best of these 7 CDP's I've only tried the 508.24 and Resolution CD50 and Prima from your list. I like the Prima best, it's one killer player at it's price, I don't know if it's the absolute best, but it is close to as good as the Capitole 2 which I also own | |
| Placement of Magnepan 1.6's or 3.6's check out the Cardas website, there are specific instructions on how to set up planar speakers. I went to a friends who has the 1.6s and they were already sounding pretty good, but we really improved things by following the Cardas setup technique.... | |
| Audio Aero Dealer Advertising? I also had my Capitole 2 in to Digital Systems and it was really quick and professional. Many of the original run of Capitole 2s had major problems and needed the entire circuit board replaced. | |
| Wadia 860, Levinson & Aero Cap Direct into Amp I have owned the 860x and Capitole Mk 2 at the same time and did a fair bit of comparing before I sold the 860x. To me the Capitole is far preferable to the 860x, in every way, within seconds you can hear how much more natural and lifelike the Cap... | |
| I have a lack of depth in "soundstage". Live music has very little depth? I don't understand that at all. At the symphony hall I hear the violins in front with woodwinds behind them and horns behind that, that is the way it sounds to me and that is how I would define depth. I do think i... | |
| Best speaker value I'm not going to claim that they will easily better anything under 2k, but I would second the recomendation for the Maggie 1.6 | |
| What can i do to make my tube preamp sound warmer? I agree that silver interconnects don't neccesarily sound bright and shrill, blanket statements like that serve no purpose. |