garfish
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| Best power cord for amp?? After reading Carl's post of 5/2/00 essentially "trashing" the Synergistic Research Master Coupler (SR-MC), I decided to critically listen last night for the negative characteristics he noted. I have the SR-MC on my Line 2 pre-amp. 1) too filtered... | |
| putting together a budget system Hi Tom; Vandersteen 2Ces are excellent with a broad range of music, and they are pretty forgiving of source. But as your source gets better the 2Ces will also sound better. I've owned 2 pairs of 2Ces, 3As, and 3A sigs. The 2Ces will sound good wit... | |
| Best power cord for amp?? Tjreed's post of 04/08/00 is RIGHT ON-- audition and choose what works best for you. That said, I WANNA try more Power Snakes. | |
| Amp stands- Do they work? ...Well said Mikela. Also, I'm sure that Nan... should be aware, as most audio enthusiasts are; "it's the journey not the destination" that is important. Personally, I don't EVER want to reach the "destination"--- but when I do I'm hoping for the ... | |
| Best power cord for amp?? Hi Kuro..; I recently auditioned 5 power cords from The Sanctuary of Sound in Seattle, WA, including a prototype of Shunyata's new "Sidewinder". (Note: right now my system is tilted to the bright side of neutral because of recent installation of d... | |
| Cables 4 Vandy 3's & preamp 4 Ayre V-3 Hi Michael; I've had a LOT of experience with Vand. 2Ce, 3A, and 3Asig. Synergistic Research Signature No.2 (biwired) work great with all of them-- very neural, smooth and detailed, but I suspect they would be hard to find used. I think 14 ft. bi-... | |
| Best Interconnects for under $300 pair Hi Megasam; There are so many ICs and models within a brand that you could end up with 300 different opinions. But, my vote is for Synergistic Research Phase 1 Luminesence from source to pre-amp and Kaleidoscope from pre-amp to amp. This is actual... | |
| Amp stands- Do they work? Nanderson; I don't believe that double blind testing can take the place of long term (days, weeks, months), relaxed, listening to music that the listener is intimately familiar with. I would rather trust my ears (and eyes) and make my own informed... | |
| 24/96 Upsampling ... I should have said Parts Connection Assemblage DAC 3.0-- sorry. Craig | |
| 24/96 Upsampling Hi 1953; Thanks for the very interesting upsampling report. It's not clear to me whether you have the Parts Connection DAC 3.0 or the Sonic Frontiers Processor 3-- would you please clarify that? Thanks, Craig | |
| Tubes? OH YES!!! But where? Hmmm.... Hi Todd, Sonic Frontiers Line Series of pre-amps do not sound "tubey" at all, ie no euphonic colorations, in fact they are quite neutral, smooth, detailed, and with good soundstaging. I use the Line 2 with a McCormack DNA-2DX amplifier, and actual... | |
| How Cool Is My Wife! Good thread Gary. When I retired (early), my wife not only let me remodel the house to combine 2 bedrooms into one listening room, but she paid for half the cost as a "retirement present". She may not understand audio weirdness, but she understand... | |
| List or discuss your favorite music ...I should have also noted that Drumsgreg and Carl are also in both the the LP/CD camp and don't mind saying so. I swear to gawd I'm not trying to stir up an old controversy. I'm just wanting to say thanks to a all who can embrace more than one m... | |
| List or discuss your favorite music I've been following this thread with much interest and was pleased (and surprised) to see Eldragon (above), obviously both an LP and CD user, have enough cahones (balls) to actually state that SOMETIMES CD actually does sound better than LP. Some ... | |
| amp placement Hi Rich..: I totally agree with South43 above. I'd just add that some amps run fairly hot and need the cooling air drawn in from underneath the amp (I know my big McCormack amp runs fairly hot as the first 25-30 watts is pure class A). Also, you d... |