gbmcleod
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| Keep light equipment from tipping up from cable weight? I use a VPI brick, or one of the late Lloyd Walker's Valid Points. Both are heavy enough to keep components from tipping. | |
| Do your ears deceive you? I’m still surprised that people cannot hear differences in cables. For me, nothing could be easier, and a few of my non-audiophile friends I’ve given cables to, hear it, and they can even identify what they hear cogently. But then, my friends we... | |
| Why were the Shunyata Venom NR V10 / V12 Power Cables Discontinued? Yes, the Theta replaces the Delta NR V2. And, frankly, it's quite a bit better, especially in the upper midrange and highs. | |
| Shunyata Delta or Alpha V2 NR vs. AQ Hurricane HC Yes, I was speaking of the sigma NR V2 power cord. | |
| Shunyata Delta or Alpha V2 NR vs. AQ Hurricane HC My conclusions mirror audphile 1’s. And especially about the entire Alpha line. I had - all the way back to the Zi-Tron line, found the Alpha cables to be....bland. (This is going back to 2011). I find the ZiTron Alpha HC, as well as the Sigma lin... | |
| Why were the Shunyata Venom NR V10 / V12 Power Cables Discontinued? I believe the NR V10 are still part of Shunyata's offerings. I know they discontinued the V12 and the Delta NR V2. | |
| When Was The Audio Golden Age? @whart, I agree. But I believe there to be a difference between "good sound" and "true to life," not that you are not saying this. I just see people confusing advances in "sound" as "better." I suppose they are better if that is all that is req... | |
| When Was The Audio Golden Age? Does the "Golden Age" question refer to recording or to advances in equipment? If recording, then the 50s and 60s. If equipment, then circa 1972 - 1995. This was a period where we still had brick and mortar establishments and people got to hear e... | |
| Aesthetix Mimas vs Hegel H590 Int's I am ALWAYS late to the party, but since I’m here... I, too, find the Hegel amps to be clean, clear and pure, but they lack the soulfulness of other amps (especially tubes). The Hegel reminded me of my super amp, the Goldmund Mimesis 9 (circa 199... | |
| Footers- Break In? Such A Change. @chayro What you are talking about seems to be more akin to someone not assessing the improvements correctly. That is most assuredly not the case with the Center Stages. Their advance over most other footers is obvious after the 10 days. I suppo... | |
| Should I steer clear of class D amps Late to the party, as usual (sigh). I bought an NAD 3050 and it arrived a few weeks ago. Sonically, it is much better than my C325 BEE and C356 BEE in "categories." That is to say, a much better reproduction of the high frequencies, lower distor... | |
| Footers- Break In? Such A Change. The Center Stage 2m footers are extremely impressive. I’ve been through many footers: Nordost Sort Kones, Stillpoints and several other top footers. I previously used the Stillpoints, but read about these 2M footers (in TAS) and decided to get a s... | |
| WHY IS THERE SO MUCH HATE FOR THE HIGH END GEAR ON AUDIO GEAR? I have noticed the vitriol as well (I think we all have). It started around 2010 (or 2012 if you go to the Steve Hoffman forums). I can see exactly when the threads began being nasty (mid 2012). From what I can see, before I left that forum over ... | |
| Stillpoints Ultra 6 vs Critical Mass Center Stage 2 Magnuman, i would’ve thought the same thing - until I got the Center Stage 2M in my system and let them "settle" for 10 days. As good as the Townshend isolation pods/Sesmic Isolation Platforms are (and I have both the iso pods and the Seismic Iso... | |
| The New Synergistic Research Purple Fuses As usual, late to the party. Not the Synergistic fuses in general, just the Purple (People Eater) fuse. I decided to go with a Purple fuse first and change some other things later. The fuse, like all the earlier generations does the job terrific... |