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| Bidat vs Perfect Wave vs Weiss and others Audiofun: FYI - From the APL HiFi forum-"The APL Hi-Fi site is being re-designed so it reflects the current products, provides more product detail and is easily upgraded, unlike the old one.There are links to email and online forum at the bottom o... | |
| Bidat vs Perfect Wave vs Weiss and others I have a SUPER-DAC prototype from APL whose DACs in the Esoteric modded APL NWO 3.0 and 4.0SE literally have caused people to sell their vinyl rigs. 20 32-bit 2nd generation AKM Dacs/side, upsampler, 2 NOS-tubed class A output stage, etc., etc., e... | |
| AZ adagios or von schweikert vr4jr You really can't go wrong with VSA - Albert is a class guy and his speakers "speak" for themselves (sorry, I just couldn't resist) | |
| Best Preamp For VAC PHI 300.1 JWM- I now have a VAC Signature Mk2a to go with my 2 Phi 300.1s in my system. It will give you what you wanted above, plus lots more. | |
| Wadia 581SE, DCS Puccini or something else??? I have a suggestion for you.IMO, none of these are even close to touching the APL 4.0SE. There is a potential work-around however, because I have done it. I have an Esoteric UX-1 upgraded by Esoteric to UX-1Pi and am using it with an APL prototype... | |
| Anyone that went to CES Tidal room with Marten Design Coltrane Momentos | |
| Prefered Freight Company I will second Pilot Air. VSA uses them to ship big speakers, which I got with no problem several years ago from Cali. I also got a tube amp using them from VAC in Fla with no problems last year. Prices are pretty reasonable and they take care of t... | |
| Footers for Esoteric SA50 CD-SACD Player The ceraballs didn't do much for me either. There is a WORLD of sonic difference between the ceraballs and cerapucs, at least in my system. Mine are about 3" in from each corner.As far as the "difference", I would suggest you go to the Finite Elem... | |
| Footers for Esoteric SA50 CD-SACD Player I tried the Stillpoints w/risers first - didn't do it for me. The cerapucs were a substantial improvement over the Stillpoints, in my system. | |
| Footers for Esoteric SA50 CD-SACD Player I've gotten good results with Finite Elemente Cerapucs under my UX-1pi and Rubidium clock. I use 4 | |
| SHOW attendees: please post speaker reports here Jeffkad- The Whispers sounded good, but not great, at least to my ears. I used to own the non-XD Whispers before my current VSA 7se's, which give me better bass slam and imaging in my room, as well as a sweeter midrange. In all fairness, the VSA's... | |
| SHOW attendees: please post speaker reports here Legacy Whisper and Bill Duddleston were in the Ayon room | |
| SHOW attendees: please post speaker reports here In no particular order, I liked the:Gershman/VAC roomVitus/Marten(Coltrane Momento)room - great soundTidal Contriva/Ypsilon roomScaena/Mac/DCS room (best imaging - went to 115db with no distortion - pretty impressive)Ayon roomOceanway Audio roomDo... | |
| Kharma ceramic blow up Speaking of "ceramics", heard the latest Marten speakers with 4 built-in passive rear woofers in the Vitus room at CES. They are ridiculously expensive in the US, but contributed to one of the best sounding rooms at the show, IMO. They were being ... | |
| Von Schweikert or Westlake Audio I'll second McCormack. Used a DNA-500 on Legacy Whispers and then briefly on VSA VR-7se's. Lots of power, great musicality for solid state. |