fleschler
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| Beware of the cable claiming long burn in period. I haven't changed my components for 13 years and one, 30 years (SME IV). I have modified my preamp and amps slightly and installed an SR blue fuse. I've also had Hallographs for 15+ years and latest Stillpoints for about 7 years. The SR product... | |
| What are the weak points of Pass amps and pre-amps ? Note, one could fry an egg on a hot EAR 890 amp, it’s that hot for the chassis and transformers, dangerous to touch after 1/2 hour. Pass amps currently list their temperature at 127 degrees, above warm and slightly hot. | |
| CD Got Absolutely Crushed By Vinyl Yes, I spent the equivalent of $22K, a VPI TNT VI plus, modified SME IV, Benz Ruby 3, Townsend Seismic Sink, Audio Interface SUT and phono pre-amp. My CD players cost $6K (EAR Acute) and $150 (mod. Pioneer DVD D-05). Plus additional ICs and A/... | |
| What are the weak points of Pass amps and pre-amps ? I remember running a Yamaha 1970s CA 1000 integrated amp with 15 watts Class A switch. It got rather warm but it did sound superior to the Class A/B 70 watts (about). The 15 watts sounded more musically involving, smoother and quieter than Class... | |
| Beware of the cable claiming long burn in period. Geoffkait - I never said that I would endeavor to cook a cable for 500 hours. Someone on the forum posted that it could take that long. I thought that was ridiculous as you did.I am satisfied with 24 hours on the cables I audition. Sometimes I ... | |
| Beware of the cable claiming long burn in period. Geoffkait You know I’ve been a beta tester for almost 2 decades for a cable manufacturer. I’ve tested 100s of cables, just a few dozen of his competitors HEA stuff (High Fidelity, Transparent, Nordost, Audioquest, Mogami, Magnan, Monster and Tara ... | |
| Beware of the cable claiming long burn in period. My experiences with dozens of cables indicate that they tend to sound good within 24 hours of use. This is also relative to the manufacture of the cables. I didn't notice any difference in Monster cables from the 1980s. GroverHuffman cables can... | |
| The Science of Cables I've set up many audio systems for novices who don't know anything about audio (one acquaintance mounted his turntable platter upside down which I determined by his inability to get a record to play correctly and a photo sent by email-fixed the pr... | |
| CD Got Absolutely Crushed By Vinyl Plus, I keep mentioning the fantastic historic performance reissues on labels such as Marston at bargain prices for rare recordings in great sound, better than I can achieve on my 78 rpm set up. | |
| CD Got Absolutely Crushed By Vinyl CD is not a dead format. Many great remasterings are happening and have happened in the past few years. I keep finding superior sounding recent reissues of Jazz and Classical on Amazon at great prices. E.g. Monteux's famous RCA Sleeping Beauty ... | |
| The Science of Cables I've also added a black SR outlet and Perfect Path Omega E-Mat on my power panel. The latter really boosted the video color density and brightness. The audio improved as much. The power outlet improvement was significant but nearly the same pri... | |
| The Science of Cables That is one cable that I have found no difference with. HDMI cable for video purposes produce all the same video quality on a high end 4K 75" top of the line Sony LCD TV. Someone lent me a $170 cable to compare to my $15 or $20 Fry's HDMI cabl... | |
| CD Got Absolutely Crushed By Vinyl I used a Tandberg 310? to make live performance cassettes when I couldn't drag me Tandberg 9100 to the site. Although the cassettes sound good, the RR recordings were better and with much lower, unobstrusive tape hiss at 7.5 ips. Now I have a Pi... | |
| The Science of Cables I must add that some very musically involving systems used $300 to $700 cables (Tiode Labs, Wireworld and others not as well known) while the best one used $400,000 of cabling (an extensive amount in a $1.5 million system). | |
| The Science of Cables Some cables are made which incur significant time, material and labor costs. They should sell for more than HEA cable prices in the $1000s and $10000s. They include GroverHuffman cables which one can read about on his site. Just drawing the wire i... |