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| DCS Vivaldi stacks vs Esoteric Grandioso G1, D1, P1 stacks As you have no local dealer can you deal with someone further away? Scott Walker audio are first rate and carry Esoteric. In the same area Katli Audio are also very good and also Esoteric dealers. I've no idea where you are but I have no difficult... | |
| DCS Vivaldi stacks vs Esoteric Grandioso G1, D1, P1 stacks Hi -- as a fellow owner of the Vivaldi stack I'm not sure what you're looking for with this change. At this level of equipment it's not clear that path A is necessarily better than path B or C -- instead each approach may sound different and your ... | |
| Thinking of selling my Snell E/III Clearly there's a market as shown on the "expired listings" tab of this link (although a lot of it is overseas) -- and the refoam kit is cheaphttps://www.hifishark.com/model/snell-e-iii | |
| Speaker Isolation -- Experience with Townshend Seismic Isolation Podiums I've not compared the individual pods to the podiums but despite the lower price there are a couple of things I'd bear in mindFirstly getting a set of pods under your speakers may not be easy especially as they will be pretty unstable until you ha... | |
| A New Ground -- Benefits of introducing the Synergistic Research Active Ground Block SE Ok on the dedicated grounds then on the Esoteric stuff. Do you have a duplex outlet connected to your 15 A line? The hemisphere should go in one of the two outlets, the ground in the other. The ground should not be connected to the hemisphere. Any... | |
| A New Ground -- Benefits of introducing the Synergistic Research Active Ground Block SE Hi @68pete some thoughts based on your setupone please make sure you are using the system as SR specify I.e, you should connect to an open/unused active outlet (RCA or XLR) and not to the provided grounding posts (other than in phono setups). Soun... | |
| A New Ground -- Benefits of introducing the Synergistic Research Active Ground Block SE @lowrider57 i cannot comment on the ground zero as I believe it performs a different functionfact is the SR system has no effect on hum or background noise in my system. If anything it creates some new potential hum sources with all the additional... | |
| A New Ground -- Benefits of introducing the Synergistic Research Active Ground Block SE @nonoise I agree, it’s always seemed odd that the boxes like Entreqs could really act as a ground while separate from the electrical ground.my problem with what Gutwire propose is that you need a hell of a lot of cables if you have a complex syste... | |
| Help They were kind of standard on everything in the early 70s, my parent's system had them -- also very common on all that nice B&O gear from back then. The DIN connections for the phono and aux inputs are always a give away that these are the con... | |
| Help That’s a DIN speaker socket, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_connectorMatching plugs are still readily availablehttp://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-Pin-DIN-Hi-Fi-Speaker-Plug-Cable-Audio-Connector-PACK-of-2-Screw-Connect... | |
| Power cables for ARC Reference 75 @fsmithjack yes you can but you’ve then reduced the resale value of your cable. If the manufacturer makes the change then you preserve more of the value. So it’s simply a question of how comfortable you are with the work and how important resale v... | |
| ARC REF 75SE uses 20amp cable - Can I use my 15amp cable and just buy 20amp IEC connector The adapter will be fine. ARC spec 20A for many of their pieces but a good standard cable and adapter will work fine. Most cable manufacturers will re-terminate to 20A at modest cost, potentially less than a fancy Furutech adapter would cost. I’ve... | |
| A New Ground -- Benefits of introducing the Synergistic Research Active Ground Block SE Not an add for Synergistic but a recommendation to try someone's (anyone, including home made if you want) grounding system if you think you have any of the problems Almarg and Atmasphere describe | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? My dear @dynaquest4 may I assay an attempt to make a case for "expensive" cables while working within the logical framework you ascribe toIf we accept that fancy cables are nothing other than tone controls (I don't believe this btw) then it still ... | |
| A New Ground -- Benefits of introducing the Synergistic Research Active Ground Block SE Thanks thanks very much @davehrab and @atmasphere these explanations really make sense and are very helpfulone final question/observation is regarding turntables. Most turntables and phono amps have a chassis ground that in many systems will be co... |