folkfreak
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| What is the best BNC Digital Cable under $4,000? What is the application you’re using it for? To a DAC or as a clock? I use a mix of Transparent Ref XL and Marigo Apparition Extreme in both these uses. Either are excellent clock cables but as DAC cables the Ref XL is warmer and works very well w... | |
| Ideal design for a new music room Mini split (obviously lots of others make them but this is a good explanation)http://www.fujitsugeneral.com/us/residential/what-is-a-mini-split.htmlAcoustic soffithttps://www.acousticsciences.com/products/acoustic-soffit | |
| Ideal design for a new music room For ventilation I had ASC spec out a mini split which is a solution that will work just about anywhere, however I can still hear the unit when it’s on even two rooms away and through my sound isolated room. It’s probably unavoidable that low fan r... | |
| Thiel is offically going...going...gone. Auction Time For those with an eye on a cable bargain lot #0249 includes a long run of Nordost SPM speaker plus XLO signature XLR in what looks like a long run too and some other cables, easily four figures worth of cable currently at $136 ... looks like what ... | |
| DCS Rossini and master clock questions Actually dCS own (John Quick) advice is that the first power cord you should upgrade in any dCS stack is that of the clock. I own a Vivaldi stack with an additional 10MHz reference clock and both that and the dCS clock benefit from upgraded power ... | |
| Would SR Galileo UEF Analog Power Cords sound noticeably worse on CD Player than Digital? @jsautter, what I actually said was that if you buy used then they are easy to resell as there is a well established and fast moving market. You should pay 35-40% of the original list price for a one generation older model like UEF, 30% or less fo... | |
| Would SR Galileo UEF Analog Power Cords sound noticeably worse on CD Player than Digital? While the SR Galileo digital cables are tuned for that application you will be fine using the analog equivalent. The main difference is that the digital cables are tuned to balance the speed and immediacy needed for digital with extra warmth. In m... | |
| Looking for great jazz guitar recordings - any recommendations? Seems all a bit vanilla so far 😏 what about a bit of Mary Halvorson or Nels Cline? | |
| Ingress Audio Engineering Re Stacore -- I'm not sure I see anything new or particularly innovative in their approach. The basic isolation is passive pneumatic which is well established and the top plate is slate -- which some like, others see as problematic. They've put it... | |
| Marigo Aida CD Mat I have had three generations of the Marigo mats in my system with the Aida replacing the last generation Clear Transformation. Interestingly the Aida is much more subtle in its effect than the prior mat. The Clear Transformation really improved th... | |
| Differences in Audioquest Storm series (Thunder, Tornado, Hurricane) And before the peanut gallery weigh in on “$200 to change a plug 🤯” the plug alone is $150 plus if you go through a dealer there are no shipping costs. Also AQ will return the 15A plug for future use should you need it. All in all I think it’s pre... | |
| Differences in Audioquest Storm series (Thunder, Tornado, Hurricane) @dave-t there's no need to sell your 15A Thunder as AQ will change the IEC to a 20A for a nominal charge. The after care from AQ is great so simply talk to your dealer and they'll ship it back to the AQ factory and you'll have the cable you need i... | |
| Big systems - Little rooms As one of the individuals with a system such as you describe you make a fair point. But if you a) select speakers that are designed to be used relatively close to the rear wall (e.g. no rear ports), and b) design and treat the room for such use (i... | |
| SUT or phono stage? Good news is that the specs on your two carts are similar enough (0.35mV/10ohms vs 0.5mV/12ohms) that the same SUT should work for both and therefore you can get one and try whether you like the sound of each cart via the MC or MM inputs bestLike ... | |
| Perfect Path Tecnologies ‘The Gate’ @whostolethebatmobile -- I have two PowerCells because my system is configured with the sources 30' from the power amps so one conditioner cannot cover both ends (plus I need a lot of cords for my sources).And @lak I use no other PPT products (I d... |