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| Synergistic Looking Glass IC for solid state ? Tic; several years ago I was auditioning ICs and speaker cables from The Cable Co., and they sent me Luminesence, Kaleidoscope, and Looking Glass ICs to try. At the time, I had a Sonic Frontiers Line SFL 1 pre-amp (single tube hybrid), and a McCor... | |
| Loud and Live George Thorogood and the Destroyers have a "live" CD that is dyno-supreme. I think it was from a performance in Atlanta or St. Louis. GT and band ROCK, and their music is sort of a through back to the best of 50s-60s R&R. If GT is a dinosaur, ... | |
| XRCDs WOW Warren; In addition to Jacintha's "Autumn Leaves" XRCD, I really like Robert Lucas "Luke and the Locomotives"-- hard driving blues and blues/rock w/ some excellent slide guitar. This was a Stereophile recommended XRCD a few years ago. Cheers. Craig | |
| Anyone compared Premium AC wire to regular romex? Yes, you would just need an available space for a standard double wide breaker in your main breaker box. I used a 30 amp Square D breaker in my main breaker panel from VD that had been cryo'ed. I can run 4-5 outlets from this 30 amp breaker.If you... | |
| VPI Magic Brick or Webster's Dictionary I recently had a McCormack DNA-0.5 amp up-graded to Gold Revision by SMc, and during the up-grade process discussed vibration control w/ Steve McCormack. Steve recommended the "Shakti Stone" placed on top of the amp over the transformer-- or bette... | |
| Anyone compared Premium AC wire to regular romex? I should have added that I think the dedicated AC system for your stereo gear is much more important than the type of wire used. I suspect that dedicated 12/3 Romex would be fine, and a huge improvement over plugging your stereo gear into the gene... | |
| Anyone compared Premium AC wire to regular romex? Denf; 12 awg THHN is just regular 12 gauge stranded copper wire. Each outlet required a hot, neutral, and ground of the THHN wire. It's used for running in conduit. The electrical company supplied it and it's pretty cheap-- any electrical supply s... | |
| How important is it to match tubes in a preamp? Sonic Frontiers considers matching tubes in their pre-amps important. | |
| Anyone compared Premium AC wire to regular romex? Hi Denf; 3 yrs. ago I had a dedicated AC system installed using a 60 ft. run of stranded 6/3 awg stranded from our main breaker box to a sub-main breaker box, and regular 12 awg THHN wire to Hubbell 8300 outlets. It was a really nice improvement o... | |
| Vandersteen Model 3 owners- I have a couple Q's... Hi Wberdan; I owned Vand. 3As for 2 years and had them up-graded to 3Asigs (I have Vand. 5s now). The 3As/sigs are excellent speakers. It cost $100-120. to ship them UPS from Oregon to S. Calif., but you can look up estimated cost on the UPS site.... | |
| My name is.....and I am a compliationaholic. Hi Cw; over the years I've certainly bought my share of "compilations"-- some good, and some not so. But when CD Recorders became readily available in the last few years, I started making my own compilations of individual artists/groups, but also ... | |
| Classical, Jazz, or Rock? 50% Blues & Rock5% Classical5% Jazz20% C/W10% New Age10% Other--probably mainly "Pop" | |
| Cowboy Junkies Warren; while I like the CD "Black Eyed Man", I agree that Margo doesn't have a world class voice. What really appeals to me about her voice is that she can sound intimate and haunting at the same time-- and on much music.But the real strenth of t... | |
| Best electronics for Vandersteen 5/5A Hi Gharrington; I've owned the standard Vand. 5s for over a year now and love them. It took 2 1/2-3 months for them to fully break-in. I've not heard the 5As as they're scarce yet. Also, isn't list price of the 5A about $14.5K?, ie quite a bit mor... | |
| Most "Non-Digital" Sounding CDP I like the musical presentation of the Levinson 37/360S combo very very much and don't think of the "format" at all while listening-- well, unless the recording is poor.I haven't heard the stand-alone 390S in my system, but would expect it to be s... |