gbmcleod
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| Shunyatas New CX series Antonkk:The Python is richer sounding than the Viper, without the Viper ever sounding "lean" in the way say, a Nordost Brahma, might. I haven't switched them in applications, but I can say that I am in no way feeling that the Vipers are cords that... | |
| Arcam fmj cd23 vs cd33 I would have to agree that the FMJ 23 is an exceptional player. What is has, that many other (current and otherwise) players do not is the "breath of life." What I mean by this is that it sounds as though a real human being is playing the instrume... | |
| Shunyatas New CX series Sherod:I have a few hundred hours on the Shunyatas now. Sonically, a very significant improvement over the Helix, which, without comparing them, one would not notice the great improvement in airiness. I was rather startled by the transients in the... | |
| Shunyatas New CX series I have not tried the Teslas, DL. What is your experience with the Tesla vs. the CX line? Without access to both cords, it would be hard to determine one being superior to the other.... | |
| Shunyatas New CX series Sherod:One thing I need to correct is what I said about brass: I meant to say they are a LITTLE more golden, not "a LITTLE golden." Misspoke there.And, MB, I think the jump in performance is obvious, but will be more so the more transparent the ot... | |
| Nordost PC - Shiva, Vishnu, or Baldur? Yes, it is. The Shiva is a bit lean: the Vishnu has more "flesh" on the instruments, which also means more varied colors in the instrumental families. I've had all the Nordost power cords: Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma (not Baldur: Baldur is an interconne... | |
| Antique Sound Lab Hurricane MK1 vs MK2 uh... typos galore.Corrections:"The low bass is terrific on its own, surpassed by, I hear [I haven't actually heard them myself] the big VTL Sigfrieds (at, KEEP this in mind, $40,0000). So, now it takes $40,000 to have low bass that VTL once could... | |
| Antique Sound Lab Hurricane MK1 vs MK2 This is a response a little late to the party about reliability, but very simialar to many other owners' experiences.One of my amps did not work out of the box, but was repaired locally. After that, it functioned fine for several years, but then d... | |
| Cambridge 740c or Rega Apollo with Linn and Sonus I agree with Phill that the Cambridge's strongest dynamics are not in the bass. While it HAS bass kick, it doesn't bulge out at you - or perhaps I should say it doesn't launch a wavefront of great power at you. The 840, and from what I read recent... | |
| Usher 718BE or Dynaudio S1.4 The Ushers are rather sensitive to room placement. And I would not say the mid-bass is overblown, but i might suggest the upperbass/lower midrange might be with certain placements.I have 718s, non-BE, and my experience is that, in a room that is r... | |
| Parasound Halo JC2 As Audiobrooke kept his unit, he may have a clearer sense of the unit's performance. I would, however, point out that the Presence Deluxe is not exactly a "tube unit" in the traditional sense. It is more akin to a solid-state unit in its presentat... | |
| Cambridge 840c vs. Bryston BCD-1 vs. Ayre CX-7e I would not, personally, put the Droplet ahead of the Cambridge unless you like fuzzy sound. I once reviewed the Droplet, and found it warm, fuzzy and not terribly pure sounding, as though all the instruments had a halo around it. I noticed one of... | |
| Transparent MM2 The Ultra MM2 speaker cable is pretty darn good. I can only imagine what the reference is like. The lack of grain moving from MM1 Super was laugh-out-loud shocking...and much better dynamics. Much, MUCH better than the MM1s. | |
| Current Faves that "Swing"? I wouldn't say that the disc determines the sound, Jaybo. I would say that the hardware, to use a common phrase, 'gets out of the way' and allows the disc to shine through. Shadorne's comment is, of course, quite right: dynamics, both micro and ma... | |
| Parasound Halo JC2 I had a JC-2 for a nearly a month.I found that, out of the box, the preamp had high resolution, and sounded musical, but it was, for me, too lightweight in the midbass through lower midrange, which resulted in a presentation that was thinner than ... |