eldartford
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| I auditioned SACD today Sogood51...You have some nice equipment, so I understand why you couldn't afford sheet rock. At least you have priorities right.Yes I have three Maggies in the front, and no, I did not properly set up the 2+2+2 configuration. It is difficult to do... | |
| I auditioned SACD today Sogood51...Try ANY of the Tacet Chamber music DVD-A's available from elusivedisc.com. It's hard to choose among them, but the Mozart Flute Quartets DVD D107 is I think the best example of multichannel recording. This one shows you why you need goo... | |
| Jitter issues with dacs.... From my job experience with digital electronics I have assumed that the data read in from the disc would go into a buffer memory, and be "clocked out" with precise timing. Parts-per-million would be easy (inexpensive)to do. It would not matter how... | |
| Any input on B&W 800 series speakers repairs Although B&W may not offer replacement drivers it is easy to find substitutes with similar characteristics and equal or better performance. Call it an "upgrade" instead of a "repair".I just replaced 6.5 inch drivers on a pair of B&W 550, a... | |
| Whats wrong with short cables? sean...I just finished wiring up a pair of MTM speakers using flat rectangular wire, Nordost I think. Each speaker had 5 wires, two ends, with two conductors...that makes 40 wire ends to strip off Teflon insulation. You have to do this carefully w... | |
| which type of sink for record washing Has anyone tried running them through a dishwasher machine? Labels might be a problem, but otherwise it might work. Maybe I'll give it a try. I have too many old LPs that I don't play anyway, and no place to store them. | |
| I auditioned SACD today For both SACD and DVD-A (and CD) the limiting factor for sonic quality is probably the analog output circuitry, which, in a universal player, is shared for all media. The Denon 2900 as modified by Underwood HIFI (and perhaps by others) addresses t... | |
| Bi Wire Tweak According to my analysis, any biwire improvement is due to the returns being separated, so it might make sense to leave the jumper on the High terminals only. That is oposite to what you describe. (I assume that the crossover is implemented on the... | |
| Do It Yourself Speakers Putting together someone else's design in kit form is not really "speaker Building" in the classic sense. Don't get me wrong: I think these kits are fine, and I use them myself, but it isn't the real thing. | |
| I auditioned SACD today No SACD that I posess is as good, sonicly, to several of my DVD-A.Why do American audiophiles put down DVD-A vs SACD? | |
| Help choosing receiver Another vote for the Panasonic SA-XR45 (or 25). I have one hooked up to very modest inwall speakers, but I first tried it out with some Dynaudio speakers, and the sonics were excellent. Plenty of power, and packed with features. I don't know how t... | |
| Classical fans, I need advice With talk of audio quality and chamber music I must repeat my recommendation of Tacet series of DVD-A discs. (A German audiophile label). In general, Mozart is the best classical composer to start with. He was the "Pop" composer of his day.The ide... | |
| Do It Yourself Speakers For many years speaker building was like instrument building, an art, not a science. Now we have science, which makes the task seem very difficult, but while the science is of interest, and worth study, its existence does not prevent anyone from d... | |
| Whats wrong with short cables? somehow the notion that wires which impose damaging load on your amp, and need to be counteracted by a Zobel network, are good, is hard for me to accept. | |
| Denon 2900 With MODS Yeah, me too would like to know. The Underwood HiFi Mod is described in unusual detail, and most of it makes fairly good technical sense to this engineer. |