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| ASL Hurricane's -- paper-in-oil, verdict? I guess the only way to do that is to trade with someone with the newer version. I, for example, have the newer version, but I couldn't say whether or not it's less "magical" than the original. The likeliest assistance in this case will come from ... | |
| Has anyone heard the Shunyata Cables? That IS fascinating, Nighthawk.May I ask what type of music (or musical instruments)you believe to be the most enlightening in determing the rising high end you heard? I tend to use brass, triangles, percussion and higher strings to determine this... | |
| Shunyata King Cobra V1 verses V2 Now I'm really fascinated!I did not find the Shunyatas to sound "dark," but the system on the West Coast I had placed the King Cobra into, was, as I said, an Arcam Alpha, which is more a "yang" product. In that system, it did not sound dark at all... | |
| Has anyone heard the Shunyata Cables? Grant:Thanks for the clarification. However, I'll note that I did NOT burn my cables in on anything except music. As such, there was no sense of a 'rising high end.' Having said that,I'm curious as to the conditions of Nighthawk's listening sessio... | |
| Room Treatments added, with negative effects.. The Tube Traps are very helpful in taming room acoustic problems. I know; I've had 30 of them since 1988, when Stereophile first reviewed them.HOWEVER, you can NOT simply place them and forget them. You must tune them carefully, by moving them alo... | |
| Has anyone heard the Shunyata Cables? Hermespan:I also got a pair of the Andromeda speaker cable recently and I find them closer to "invisible" than other cables I've had. What's more, they do not "plane" the textures (as in shave the edge of textures) from instruments, so the instrum... | |
| Review: Antique Sound Labs Hurricane Tube amp RWD:What was your impression of your amps at the earliest stages of break in (ie., the first ten hours)? Mine were turned on, literally, 3 hours ago. I re-read Harry's (HP) review, but saw nothing about the stages of break-in (as once was his habi... | |
| Hale Rev 3s into lower impedances, I imagine the KSA 50 would deliver something like 100 watts at 4 ohms. That certainly should b enough power in a room that's 13x15, unless you have a 30-foot ceiling!I'm quite sure it would be acceptable, given that power wo... | |
| Could This Be Your Next Power Conditioner? where (until the addition is built onto the house) I am planning to situate my stereo system. Not to mention that the dutch barn has good dimensions (10x14x19) and I can acoustically treat it without bothering anyone in the house! I found that Hon... | |
| Shunyata King Cobra V1 verses V2 Hmmm...I recently bought one Python cable, TWO King Cobras, one Black Mamba, and one Taipan.I can definitely NOT confirm that the Python matches the King Cobra. However, I DID buy the King Cobra on Audiogon. I can tell ya, I put it into a friend's... | |
| What about the Hales Transcendence 5's You might want to read Fred Kaplan's review of the T5 in the Absolute Sound. I think it's issue 125. He found none of the problems listed above, and I know Fred, professionally speaking. He's an extremely perceptive reviewer. It seems unlikely tha... | |
| Has anyone heard the Shunyata Cables? I have the Aries interconnect, and I have to say, I don't find it to have a "rising high end" and I own Revelation 3s (Hale), which would certainly demonstrate that effect.For the heck (and to get a longer length), I just bought another length of ... | |
| Soundstage/Imaging and The Room Guys, I appreciate the ideas. Please keep in mind, however, that this is an empirical experiment, not one where I need to be concerned about the materials or the reflection. It's simply a way of finding out how much any given material works. I wou... | |
| Soundstage/Imaging and The Room One more correction: the 'room divider I mentioned is at 15' feet from the wall BEHIND me. So the 'wall' the bass wave mainly hits is around 26-28 feet, although, obviously, with the 'divider' my mom put up being porous, it goes 'through' the divi... | |
| Soundstage/Imaging and The Room Joeb:Thanks for the comments. The Alton Everest book is waiting for me at home. I'm curious, however, as to why you say this? Is it because it seems the room seems to be in multiples of 8? The figures were not exact for the room, just close to wit... |