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Jan 02, 2004	Best sounding SACD's to show-off system The two Proprius recordings, Cantate Domino and Vaelkommen till varen. Both sound extraordinary even on my unmodded Denon 2900.
Dec 25, 2003	Power Cords Snake Oil ?? A more important question to push the boundaries on is why various components are immune to the colorations of power cords. That goes back to the question of power supply and transformer design raised earlier.
Dec 23, 2003	Power Cords Snake Oil ?? Look at the mess it has created.... like acoustics, speaker design, electronics, digital processing, recording, microphone design, networks, midi. I think I'll stay lost in the past if that's true.A forum for the discussion of ideas. String theory...
Dec 23, 2003	Power Cords Snake Oil ?? >Corona says: If it tests good and sounds bad its bad" In other words, you didn't know how to test what you were hearing >Corona says:"if it tests bad and sounds good its good. In other words, you didn't know how to test what you were he...
Dec 21, 2003	Power Cords Snake Oil ?? Corona, your response is pure crap. You log onto a consumer website and claim a lot of preposterous physics - superconductors, string theory (what's next - astrophysics?) There is only one way, and there never will be any other way, to do physics ...
Dec 21, 2003	Denon 2900: Questions, comments One further comment on the 2900. Playing it through high resolution amplification stages and speakers, I notice at times a quite low level continuous noise which may be transport motor noise. This would not be unexpected considering the inexpensiv...
Dec 20, 2003	Denon 2900: Questions, comments Sean, The GP shelves are supported on weight-graded dampers and cut out to fit the vertical supports, so switching to something like the Neuance shelf is not a routine thing. Also the GP has deeper and tighter bass than the older Neuance shelves d...
Dec 18, 2003	Power Cords Snake Oil ?? Z - I think we're in agreement :-)
Dec 17, 2003	Power Cords Snake Oil ?? Zaikesman, no I wasn't expecting a unification of all cable design based on string theory (aargh). Why is email so difficult? The point of testbeds is that they can prove and DISPROVE ideas, and they lead in theory to an exchange of ideas. This is...
Dec 17, 2003	Power Cords Snake Oil ?? My point above is not at all combative.It would be a real accomplishment in this high end field if a testbed created by one designer could become useful to other designers working on ideas - even radical ideas. It might even end the snake oil era,...
Dec 17, 2003	Power Cords Snake Oil ?? So lets take one of Corona's cords and check it out on Audioengr's modified amp and dac. If no audible change, what happens in string theory?
Dec 16, 2003	Denon 2900: Questions, comments Sean, Regarding cables and racks, a few comments on what has worked in my system. I dislike cones, bearings, elastomers and the like because of the inevitable sonic signatures, so I haven't put time into these and can't offer advice. The Denon do...
Dec 15, 2003	Denon 2900: Questions, comments The Denon 2900 is vibration and power cord sensitive. The sound will change pretty much all over the map depending on the power cord - from terrible to quite good, which is possibly a reason why reviews have been so variable. Its cd performance is...
Dec 13, 2003	Power Cords Snake Oil ?? Audioengr, have you done a control experiment where you take your amp and dac to a city environment with really dirty power, fluctuating voltage, and rfi. Does the power cord independence hold for these conditions? Your result sounds like a very g...
Dec 06, 2003	Essay bashing Primedia, Stereophile - and Audiogon Onhwy61's comments are correct but there is more to the whole picture. There is a simple fact in business that markets do saturate. Audiogon has created an efficient way to sell used equipment. The dying out of new equipment sales, which is the fo...