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Cerious cables - Proper setup and run in time
"Why would anybody buy the speakers after hearing the cables? Must be a masochistic audiophile."StanhifiCan I retract my applogy to Stan? (okay I'm kidding)After talking with and reading comments by several owners of Cerious Speakers, (Ken, the ow... 
any outlaw pre/pro owners? anyone mod theirs?
I like the 990 as a HT pre/pro fed into my PS Audio GCC-100. I can feed a phono stage or better D/A into the GCC for 2 chan with no compromise.The 990's D/A with upsampling is pretty nice sounding feeding the GCC-100, and sounds better than my Ent... 
Bang For Your Buck Best Value CD Transport
I have the answer, but it would take too long to get.The Aiwa XC-37M or 35M as modded by STan Warren, but will take probably 6 months to get done.The unmodded aiwa was compared favorably to an $8k Wadia, so the mod is excellent in the way it takes... 
Cerious cables - Proper setup and run in time
Regarding my response to Stan:It wasn't till after I responded that I did a search and realized you had in fact auditioned the cables in your system, so I appologize about the "selling" comment.That being said, Cerious is shipping out my entire se... 
Celebration vs Blackbird
Oh yes, I did see that review, but didn't remember it talking about less than stellar tracking.I never heard the blackbird, so I can't comment.I do believe that sumiko will give you an allowance with trading in an older sumiko cart. Check it out -... 
Move to NYC Apt -- Vandersteen 3A Speaker Woes
My advice- being a manhattan apartment dweller is to leave the vandy's in storage ot at a friends house. Leave most of your furnature as well, or sell it.You will be so much happier living with just a few pieces of well placed and right sized furn... 
Celebration vs Blackbird
Can you point me to the Celebration Review?I am running the Celebration in an older WTT classic table with black platter.I find it to be outstanding, but of course have not heard any other high end carts recently. It was replacing a Crown jewel SE... 
Cerious cables - Proper setup and run in time
What's Stan selling? 
Do you get Ringing in the Ears from your hi-fi?
A number of years back when Prilosec was persciption only, I used it for about 1-2 years. It worked well, and I then later I noticed I had ringing.On a message board about reflux, someone mentioned getting ringing after taking Prilosec. A few othe... 
David Elrod. the man , the cable the company.
Bob Grost of Cerious is great. I can;t wait to hear his latest cables and speakers I have on order. Bob Crump of TG Audio is also gentleman and fantasic builder. Stan Warren and Paul McGowan should also be on the list.Michael Green of Roomtunes as... 
Anyone heard Cerious Technologies speakers?
I have a pair of two's/bass on order, and should be here in 3 weeks or so. I also order a full set of interconnects and speaker cables, and just last week power cords.After reading a small ad here on A'gon, I became emamoured with their technology... 
Which speakers excel at low volume?
My take on this subject-The PS audio GCC-100 amp is great at low volumes becuase there is no volume control in the signal path. Even my excellent tech labs Bob Crump built vol pots in my spectral pre-amp dont sound as transparent as the GCC- and e... 
Outlaw products....
I have the 990 pre-proc. It sounds nice and is quite flexible. I use it feeding a GCC-100 control amp for HT and CD decoding for now - till I get a better D/A. Analog is fed directly to the GCC-1oo The Upsample feature of the 990 sounds really nic... 
The best speaker you ever heard?
I second Albert's vote for Soundlab U1. (quite a few years ago- this thread is so old)I heard them a number of times at a friends house, and he really didn't even have a large enough room to them breath.I had Crosby Quad ESL-63's at the time, with... 
Sacd/dvd-a, The Hype Is Dead, For Me At Least...
Interesting. I have resisted buying either SACD or DVDa - becuase of the lack of titles, lack of unified format (i.e there shoudld be 1 HD CD format only) and lack of digital outputs.The fact of the matter is that I am their target audience (as mo...