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| Confused - what to buy DAC or CD player? I like Craig's advice of getting the DAC first. I once owned the Bel Canto DAC 1.1 and enjoyed. I bought the DAC to use with my Musical Fidelity CD player, then eventually changed to a Theta Pearl transport. I know Bel Canto recommends using a DVD... | |
| Speaker cables for Proac Ref 1.5 Do you mean the "Response" 1.5s? I own both ProAc Tablette 50 Signatures and Response 1SCs and am currently using cryogenically treated Virtual Dynamics biwired Audition speakers cables with them. The Virtual Dynamics cables are very smooth and at... | |
| Virtual Dynamics Recall That's very encouraging Sherod! I never even considered that power cords could improve picture quality too, but I guess it makes sense. I definitely plan on getting one of Rick's power bars/strips when it becomes available and the extension cord i... | |
| Virtual Dynamics Recall Hi Bradz, my upgrade was very similar to what you are considering.I had a system that included Cardas Lightning L15, Cardas Golden Cross, Harmonic Technology Pro Silway II, Analysis Plus BiOval 9s and Virtual Dynamics Power 2s, then in early march... | |
| Subwoofer Blending Hi Tomryan. Most powered subwoofers usually include both a variable adjustable low pass filter for your sub and a switchable high pass filter with three or so settings for the feed to your mains. I can understand you wanting to lessen the load on ... | |
| Regrets Two years ago during spring cleaning I threw my Dad's old Sansui 1000X receiver into the dumpster. This was during the early stages of my becoming a devoted audio enthusiast when I was more interested in the latest gear and what my next upgrade wo... | |
| Best female vocals on CD Ooops. I think I may have misinterpreted your post. Your lukewarm reception was in reference to your new Barber, Wilson, etc. CDs right? Have a listen online at Amazon.com to Diana Krall's older stuff and you'll see what I mean.. | |
| Best female vocals on CD Jewel, I can understand your reaction to Diana's previous material. While the reviews of Look of Love have been extremely varied, I think we have a tendency to like or be more attached to our first exposure to something special. Look into Jacintha... | |
| Virtual Dynamics Recall I've been hoping they would come out with some type of power strip. As far as you know, is it kinda like the PS Audio Juice Bar? If it is, I could find a use for at least two of them. Bradz, I'm glad the VD cords are working for you. Adding the VD... | |
| Proac Studio 125s Interesting. I never knew that British reviews of ProAcs weren't as positive as in the US. Is it because they like the B&W sound more as a whole? I guess the warm, romantic sound is more to the liking of us Yanks. | |
| Bose makes more than speakers... Buying a Bose system is like paying $30,000 for a Yugo with 300,000 miles on it. | |
| jumpers versus golden plates Aida, Sean makes a very good and economical point. When I first tried replacing the gold plated jumpers of my Sonus Faber Concertinos, I used cheap copper car stereo wire and even that was an improvement. Buying the AP silver jumpers was just to a... | |
| jumpers versus golden plates I've owned a couple different monitors that had gold plates in place for biwiring. I have a pair of Analysis Plus Silver Oval jumpers, but run my monitors in biwired configuration 99% of the time so never really use them much. From past posts it s... | |
| Virtual Dynamics Cryo'd Audition Cables Interesting. Initially, I thought I was the only one experiencing this thing with the goofy center focus, but another A'gon member that was breaking in VD cables at the same time as me also noticed the same thing. He solved his problem by reinstal... | |
| Virtual Dynamics Cryo'd Audition Cables Congrats Hshapiro! I've owned the cryo'd Audition Package for almost two months and have experienced a transformation very similar to yours. Initially, the center focus of my soundstage was a bit goofy, and there was a slight overall iciness to th... |