habermas
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| Does power cord for desktop PC matter? Power cords and power conditioners are useful in both giving clean power to equipment but also to dissipate the noise rejected by the equipment it’s attached to and avoid its contamination to other equipments’ power supplies. In the case of a PC, ... | |
| Power Cable for CDP @audioguy85 same here, all the cable nonsense started when my dealer, exasperated that I had no decent cabling, gifted me an Audioquest NRG Y3 cable. It sat in my hifi drawer for a year before by pure chance I tried it, just to make fun of « dumb ... | |
| Simaudio 340 i hard to beat for the $$ I have the Moon 700i, you find them often at around 6k USD. Best amp I ever had, including pre+power combo from Allnic, Air Tight and Leben I used to have in the past. I don’t know the 340i, but the 600i and 700i are among the very best there is... | |
| Accuphase e800 or luxman m900u for sonus faber olympica nova 3 @vini234 EC gear is lovely, always loved how they look. Have you thought about the Gryphon Diablo 300? Gryphon gear go well with SF speakers, it’s a well known match. And no issue with selling them if you ever feel the need to upgrade in the futur... | |
| Krell vs Mcintosh The recent Krell XD range with the iBias technology is amazing. My dealer who stopped selling them when they moved production to China in the early 2000s started carrying them again like 2 years ago. The Duo 300 XD with the matching preamp is alre... | |
| Matching Power and Speakers -- Much Ado about Not-that-Much? (Tube amps and speakers) It also depends on what type of music you listen to. Folk/Vocal Jazz/Pop don’t require the kind of dynamics you need to reproduce a concert piano or a symphonic orchestra. Also, if you’re very fond of rock/blues/pop, which feature a lot of bass wh... | |
| Considering moving to separates with a tube preamp-appreciate recommendations Wait for a bit to stretch a bit your budget and treat yourself with an EAR 912in the used market that you see on sale for 4500/5000$. It’s an end-game type of preamp. But to be frank, the types of improvements (depth, soundstage, fluidity) you ar... | |
| Class A Tube integrated amp running 100% volume I used to have a full-tube setup with an Air Tight ATM-2 and later on a Leben CS1000p, which are both quite famous for their musicality. Both had a volume control in their input stages even though they are power amplifiers (mainly to accommodate p... | |
| Gryphon Diablo 120? The Gryphon & Sonus Faber synergy is a well known one. A good audio friend of mine runs the Guarneri with either the Diablo 300 or Jadis pre & monos, I always preferred how it sounds with the Gryphon than with the tube gear. But it’s a mat... | |
| What to change a systemic question Well having more weight on the musical notes is quite difficult to achieve only by changing electronics on bookshelf speakers. And even in floorstanders, you usually only get it with big 2.5/3 way speakers. You could start trying out some subwoof... | |
| AudioQuest vs Cardas XLR Audioquest has several manufacturing facilities from what my dealer told me. For cables,from what I remember, he told me that up to the Rocket series of speaker cables, up to the Rivers series for ICs and I don’t remember which series of PCs, the ... | |
| AudioQuest vs Cardas XLR I concur with @decooney you might want to test out some speaker + interconnect looms before settling on a very nice interconnect. Nothing beats experience and trying out different metals and geometries across brands might give you some significant... | |
| AudioQuest vs Cardas XLR @jeffreyw Well, having myself KEF Reference 3s with AQ power cords and having tried many combinations during the last 12 months, I would recommend you to go in the direction of pure silver or silver alloy (and not silver-plated) cables both for ... | |
| AudioQuest vs Cardas XLR OP what about you tell us about the equipment you have and the rest of your cabling? Both Cardas and Audioquest are amazing manufacturers, but both are not universal. And so are the rest of the top cable manufacturers like Shunyata, Transparent an... | |
| Shunyata Delta or Alpha V2 NR vs. AQ Hurricane HC Personally, I run Shunyata on the signal side and Audioquest (Tornado and Blizzard mainly), to the exact opposite of @vonhelmholtz. Exactly as you said, Shunyata has speed, (perhaps too much) clarity and top-end extension to it. But Audioquest o... |