gtfour45
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| Do amps sound better when left on for 30 minutes ? My experience is that they don't warm fully unless they are playing music. I can leave my kW500 on for hours and it still needs playing time before it performs at its best. | |
| Can I replace/repair a Phillips SACD transport? Hi Kiplandh,I can't answer your question directly, but I was also caught up in the MF Tri-Vista/Phillips transport debacle back in 2004/5.The generation of SACD transport used in the Tri-Vista was universally unreliable. They all go bad at some ti... | |
| Wilson Sophia2s demand better than AYRE V5xe, so.. Hi Hce4,I'm very pleased to hear you've had good results from your positioning experiments.Crossing approximately two feet behind your head sounds about the same as my setup.I hope you can find the right upstream combination to get the best from y... | |
| Am I hearing the effects of "clean sound"? Definitely. You are describing the effects of cleaner power to your rig.In my case I got it by adding power conditioning and cables (a full-house Shunyata setup with Hydra 4 and Anaconda and Python cables) rather than by a dedicated line, but the ... | |
| dCS Elgar plus vs. Delius - confused Hi audiobb,Were I you I would check that information - that Elgar Plus can upsample on its own - very carefully. I believe it to be wrong.However, I don't own one, so perhaps an Elgar Plus owner can give a definitive answer. | |
| dCS Elgar plus vs. Delius - confused Hi audiobb,You are right - if you have a Purcell and a 1394-equipped Delius or Elgar Plus, you can feed in native CD sample rate and choose which upsampled rate you want to listen to, all the way up to the DSD rate. So if you want to make the effo... | |
| dCS Elgar plus vs. Delius - confused Hi audiobb,Delius DAC was a no-frills version of the dCS DAC. My understanding is that it has a less costly power supply and less costly casework than Elgar Plus but is otherwise the same.In relation to the Firewire/1394/DSD input, this is a matte... | |
| Wilson Sophia2s demand better than AYRE V5xe, so.. I am also a Sophia 2 owner and can endorse the earlier comments regarding toe-in for Wilson speakers.Mine are toed-in so that only a small slice of the inner surface is visible from the listening seat.In my setup experience, soundstage & image... | |
| What speaker cables for Wilson Sophia 2s ? I use Acrolink 7N-S20000 with Sophia 2s and am very happy with the combination. They stop the tweeter from getting harsh or over-bright, have a very realistic soundstage and superb presentation of detail and tone.I use a very different amplifier h... |