garfish

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Power Cord Challenge
Brulee, and Jhunter too; I admire you guys style-- and best of luck to both. Cheers. Craig 
Power Cord Challenge
The test should be all stock power cords at the same time versus all custom cords at the same time, as I've found the positive effects to be cumulative. I'm not in the vicinity, but I hope someone can take you up on this offer. Cheers. Craig 
I NEED HEADPHONES....NOW
Hi Martice; I can strongly recommend the Sennheiser 580s or 600s. Both are very smooth, relaxing and comfortable for long term listening. The 600s are more detailed than the 580s and are my preference. Both should be available within your budget. ... 
Carl hears through Diamond
Hi Carl; welcome back to Agon, and a nice post about Audiotruth Diamond ICs and others. BTW, Agon now lets us use paragraph breaks-- a nice improvement IMO. Cheers. Craig. 
Party At Albertporter s
Kitch, Albert; this thread is great, and fortunately, I do have nice collections of Linda Ronstadt (early) and Patsy Kline. I especially liked Pops request to cook burgers on your amps ;>). Cheers. Craig. 
Burn In CD s Demag CD s
Hi Bob; I own and use the XLO CD. It has a 15 min. burn in track that I use on repeat, and it also has de-magetize tracks-- also a bunch of other tracks for set up etc. I recommend it. I've not used the others you mention. Cheers. Craig 
Best driving music.
George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers-- "Bad to the Bone" and other GT CDs. Craig 
Party At Albertporter s
Albert; I'll bring 100-150 country/western CDs ;>) Cheers Craig 
CD Recommendations
Hi Lev; four of my all time favorite CDs are by Enigma, with "Cross of Changes" the best, IMO. This is percussion driven music that some call New Age, but it's probably more accurately described as "World Beat" music. Good Listening. Craig 
Dedicated line vs. power conditioner
Sean; yes, for awhile the only elements I was comparing were the dedicated AC/ground system versus the Tice Elite 4. I will note that before the dedicated system, the Tice power conditioner did improve music quality when used with front end compon... 
Dedicated line vs. power conditioner
Macm; I put in a four breaker sub-main breaker box, and from there four 20 amp dedicated Hubbell duplex outlets with dedicated ground and ended up getting rid of my Tice E-4 power conditioner, ie it made music worse. With the dedicated circuitry, ... 
What s Your Frame of Reference?
Sugarbrie; an interesting testing method(s)-- I really don't think I could call it that close. Cheers. Craig 
What to do with your tax return?
Well......all $700. of our refund went into our "household" account, and YOU know how that goes :>). Cheers? Craig 
Bi-amping for me?
.....as to amps with same output. With a vertical biamp the amps must be as nearly matched as possibe, and therefore, yes, they must have the same output. In horizontal bi-amp, ie where one amp drives the upper frequencies and the other drives the... 
Bi-amping for me?
Hi Russel; do a search under bi-amp. I just checked and there are about 30-40 threads on bi-amping-- probably a lot of good info. there. I'll just say here that Richard Vandersteen recommends passive (no external X-over) vertical bi-amping as an i...