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| VooDoo Power Cords...What s the verdict? I recently compared the Voodoo Mana and Shunyata Viper V2 to my Syn. Res. Master Couplers,. And in the last year, have auditioned seven other power cords. The Mana is detailed, a bit mellow, good bass, good tonal balance-- and relatively neutral. ... | |
| What's the Least You Could Live With? All used: McCormack DNA-0.5 amp ($650.), Sonic Frontiers SFL-1 pre-amp ($650.), Sony CA9ES CD player ($300.) and Adcom 600/700 DAC ($300.), Theta TLC jitter reducer/Toslink converter ($75.), PBJ ICs ($80.), cheap Kimber spkr. cables ($100.). Vande... | |
| Interest in an interconnect If you can get it "off the ground" I would be willing to pay a reasonable fee for auditioning ICs and cables. Why not also add power cords-- much audiophile interest in these.However, the posters above provide some food for thought re actually get... | |
| Mark Levinson No.37 and 36s Vurs ML 39 CD Player Hotrod; thanks for the perspective. I use the ML 37/360S combo and consider it outstanding. Craig | |
| The infamous To keep your system in balance, there really are no limits, ie if you go to $20K speakers, it could very well be beneficial to up-grade all your other components commensurately. So we can only report on out own experinces, IMO. That said:Amp: $5K ... | |
| Mark Levinson No.37 and 36s Vurs ML 39 CD Player I'd just like to hear the new 390S. Has anyone? Cheers. Craig | |
| Audio Terms You might want to get Robert Harley's book "The Complete Guide to High End Audio", available at www.audioadvisor.comLaid Back: The stereo image forms behind the speakers rather than exactly between them or in front of themForward: The soundstage f... | |
| Help I need some speaker suggestions I can recommend Vandersteen 2Ces (and signatures). The 'Steens have a slightly warm and laid back sound character that is totally non-fatiguing. $1495. (new) for the sigs., $1295. for the std. 2Ce-- less used. 3As/3Asigs can be found between $1500... | |
| Electrical gurus please help.... .......agree with the above posts re hospital grade outlets. They have higher build quality and are specifically designed to tightly grip the plug (so the plug can't easily fall out), and thus they provide better contact than regular household out... | |
| Siemen tubes in Sonic Frontier line 2 ? I tried a pair of Seimens 7308s in the two rear positions of my Line 2 and did not like the big billowy, diffuse, forward sound stage they projected, and went back to the much more neutral-- but less euphonic, Sovteks. BTW, I also tried a set of V... | |
| Upsampling disadvantges, mutliplying the mistakes?? Upsampling is the same as oversampling which has been used by even inexpensive CD players since the early 1980s (see previous threads on upsampling). 8X oversampling being the most common. High quality, good sounding CD players have more to do wit... | |
| Recommendations for a CD Recorder I've had excellent results with a Pioneer 739 (now 839)-- 3 CD drawer on the left and a CD-R drawer record on the right. You can program 3 CDs at once, hit record and have a compilation. It's versatile, easy to use, has been totally reliable and c... | |
| COAX VS OPTICAL CABLES Coaxial is preferred. Cardas High Speed Digital is good-- about $80. new, and Cardas Lightning even better, about $220. new. Craig | |
| Re: Dedicated Lines Hi Jel; I had a dedicated system put in a year ago by an electrician. They ran a heavy stranded mainline from the main breaker box to a sub-main box (10 ga. is fine, but I had 6 ga., so they used it). My sub-main is on an outer wall. Then from the... | |
| help jitter, toslink, and DVD question Your proposed approach sounds like a good one-- I used it myself for several years. If your DVD player has coax out, by all means use it instead of Toslink, if not the DIP will convert Toslink to coax. I can recommend Cardas High Speed Data digita... |