garfish
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| Listener fatigue Maybe I've been lucky, but I haven't had problems with fatiguing components, but I have gotten serious listeners fatigue from excessively bright ICs, speaker cables, digital cables, and worn out tubes in my SF pre-amp. I use and like Synergistic R... | |
| Balanced or Unbalanced? I have heard significant differences between balanced and unbalanced ICs in my own system, and decided that I did not like balanced-- too dry (thin, lean?), too detailed, too analytical. Single ended sounds more "whole", more organic, warmer, more... | |
| Why so many Flaky Buyers? I've had over 30 transactions, both buying and selling here on Audiogon, and in general am very pleased with the results. Yes, I've had to put up with some "tire kickers" the "low-ballers", and sometimes many questions, but by far the majority of ... | |
| Does anyone ever retube Sonic Frontier preamp. SFL2? If you mean biasing the tubes, the tubes in pre-amps do not need to be biased. Sonic Frontiers will sell you matched pairs for your pre-amp, but matching is different than biasing. I have re-tubed my SF Line 2 with matched pairs of tubes several t... | |
| Who R U? I only occasionally check on this thread-- glad to see it's still going strong. Thanks Evo845 for sharing your personal and painful experiences with us. IMO, it takes a strong man to admit those kind of feelings and "weaknesses". And I think CFB's... | |
| Your opinion on burn in I don't disagree with those who feel that it takes the "listener" awhile to adjust to "listening". I especially notice this phenomenon when going from one type of music to another, eg from smooth jazz (Diana Krall ballads)to serious rock eg, ZZ To... | |
| Get out your thinkin' caps.... ........a total body shave should be included as an "intermediate" step. And of course something involving pigs, boars, hogs, swine, sows etc. Liberal use of duct tape may be in order. OBL seems to think that he has "won" something, but it's him t... | |
| Moral Dilemma Break out your heaviest telephoto, take a couple of quick shots, then throw the lens to Bin. Like 3Chihuahuas, I'd like to see the bastard through the sights of my .45-70. Thanks for the Yuks Albert. Cheers. Craig | |
| My girlfriend is pissed Steve; What system did you just get up and running? And what did you not have for a week? I think Glen has it right ;>) Cheers. Craig | |
| Your opinion on burn in South43; it may be that you're trying to unscrute the unscrutable. I turn my amp off at night and on in the morning so it will be "warmed up" for afternoon and evening listening sessions. However, even with the amp having several hours of being wa... | |
| HELP Anyone Using a PS 300 w/ a BAT Preamp? A friend told me that the Sonic Frontiers Line 3 has the same problem, ie it uses too much wattage when going from standby to operate for the P300 to handle. A dealer for Sonic Frontiers verified this when he called them. Good Luck. Craig | |
| what is the diff with SACD and HDCD ?? the HDCD system consists of an up-graded encoding and decoding process that was designed to improve CD sonics. If I remember right, HDCD stands for "High Definition Compatible Digital". It is several years old now, and most CD producers have not u... | |
| Speaker vs. Room Size Any good speaker (probably stand mounted) that does not have bass lower than about 40 HZ should be fine. The B&W 805s would be great as Lev335 recommends. I have a pair of PSB Stratus Minis in a second system that I can also highly recommend--... | |
| How much power have you got under the hood? It's important to know at least the nominal impedence of your speakers (in ohms). 4 ohm speakers require twice the watts to produce the same volume as 8 ohm speakers. But speakers typically have an impedence "range", ie from 4 to 16 ohms. The powe... | |
| Why a line preamp? I tried running a Sony XA7ES CD player direct to McCormack DNA-2DX and didn't like it at all. The music was thin, sterile, hyper-detailed, and lacked "body". Switching back to a Sonic Frontiers Line 2 pre-amp restored timbral richness, deep tight ... |