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| Recommendations for a Digital interconnect. I use and prefer the Cardas Lightning AES/EBU to the Madrigal AES/EBU, which is analytical, while the Cardas is very musical, well-- in my system. Craig | |
| Are You Happy? Kirk; we were posting at the same time. Well said. Craig | |
| Are You Happy? To repeat '61s question in another way, 'why would anyone buy 2000-3000 CDs most of whose sound/music they can't stand'? I only have 1000-1200 CDs and 90% or more sound good or better (I cull the junk, BTW). I have a lot more money in gear than mu... | |
| Best Amp for under 10K? I use and love the McCormack DNA2 Rev.A by Steve McCormack. This amp has it all-- power, finesse, quickness, bass, PRT, dynamics. It's very natural sounding and most of all, musical. The new production DNA500 is supposed to be excellent also. Don'... | |
| Nobody doing thier own experimenting or research? Jvia; not an unreasonable observation. I would just say from personal experience that it took me 3-5 years of reading, listening, learning, talking, auditioning etc. before I became confident in my own listening skills, and also learned the "audio... | |
| I need to do this, please help Tim; I'n no expert either, but several recommend a book on acoustics by (I believe) Alton Everest-- maybe do a search for it. Robert Harley's book (2nd Ed.) "The complete guide to High End Audio" has a room acoustics section that is useful, and th... | |
| Am I the only one who thinks B&W is mid-fi? Well.......it's just that calling B&W speakers "mid-fi" is a tremendous insult to many, whereas merely saying that he doesn't like B&W sound characteristics would be much less insulting-- and more clearly a personal opinion. The poor choic... | |
| Are You Happy? Hi '61; I am totally happy with my all digital system. I Don't want to turn this into a digital versus Analog thread, but I've got to disagree strongly with Sean's characterization of CDs as being "soul-less"-- that observation may be true when th... | |
| Any Levinson owners/critics out there? I own the ML 37 transport and 360S DAC connected with a Cardas AES/EBU cable and consider the combination excellent. BTW, when connected with Madrigal's own AES/EBU cable music became too analytic. I auditioned a 331 amp-- in home for a week and d... | |
| Trouble Auditioning Hi-fi Components? I'd be really "ticked off" too if my local dealer kept putting me off because they are "busy" with HT, and I've not had that happen. It sounds like you can't even get an in-store audition. Is that correct? It takes them set-up time for that, so as... | |
| What is Monoblock/Dual Mono/Bi-wiring? Excellent response Hueske, and Cheers to you and Sjc too. Craig | |
| Jacintha "Autumn Leaves" on XRCD2 is incredible Firebird; yes, this CD was released by FIM (I think) but I got it through Music Direct. I should have noted that, thanks. It is called an XRCD2-- if that's new?Stehno; as you know, we BOTH have those fast, hot rodded DNA2 amps-- I'll have another ... | |
| Is it just me or has A-gon become a high dollar Driver; I've wondered the same thing. Equipment typically sells for 50-60% of MSRP, but music sales are sort of new to Audiogon, and sellers are just going for "whatever the market will bear"-- free enterprize-- capitalism etc at work, IMO.But I'd... | |
| FIM vs. PSA powerport vs. Anything else? Hi Gray; I'm really a sucker for these AC power supply threads! I had a dedicated system put in a couple of years ago and now consider it the foundation of high quality music. I didn't use audio-grade wire, rather I had 60 ft. of 6 ga. copper stra... | |
| Am I assuming too Much? Hi Artemus; Many that hang out on this site will totally agree with your assumption, but when I tried out the MMF-5(?) a couple years ago, I found that I was unable to listen past the inherent noise(s) of LPs-- a personal inadequacy I suppose. I'm... |