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| Best real world radial / omidirectional speaker Cdc2,Apart from the Ohms, for 2000 $, you should be able to find a used pair of Shahinian Obelisks sooner than later. RegardsFlorian Hassel | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Hi all,for what it's worth: The well-respected German magazine Stereo, in its January 2011 edition, ran a review of the AA Tube Dac-II, and compared to its reference DAc, MBL's 1511F. They found the AA overall on the same level, writing the MBL ha... | |
| HD music downloads to iPod? Marks 2512,as far as I realize, the only way to download HD files is to a HiFi-Man device as of yet, the only portable device capable of handling them. Having said that, my understanding is that even this device does not work (sound) perfectly wit... | |
| Could I bi-wire MC 402 to a set of speakers? Docash777,I had the 402 and used two cable sets from the 8.ohm-tap to connect them to my Shahinian Diapason speaker, which has one binding post on the subwoofer, and another one on the module for the middle and high frequencies. Both cables, and l... | |
| Linn kurate vs. Ayre CX-5 and -5 MP Sorry, I meant the Linn Akurate of course. | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Teajay and others, Srajan Ebajen and Jean-Paul Hiraga from a French high end magazine both listen to a combination from an Esoteric VRDS-transport model, going into the Yamamoto DAC. Ebajen found this combo to sound better than even the much more ... | |
| Any experience with Copper Mat on Raven One I own a Raven one and met Thomas Woschnik, asking him about using a copper mat. He advised against doing so, bcs he said that in order to work correctly, the copper would have to be fixed to the rest of the table, as it does with the Raven AC. Hav... | |
| Shahinian Hawks or Obelisks Pugget, I have both Obelisks and Diapasons, and after playing around with a lot of amps, my conclusion - and that of a friend who has both speakers, too - is that indeed, all Shahinians do need a lot of current, of a powerful solid state amp, to s... | |
| What happened to Exact Power What a shame. Does anybody know if Exact Power's founder has set up another business to continue the high end-work?Regards, Florian Hassel | |
| US only sales WHY??? Funny enough, but nearly only those who do not sell outside the US comment here. In my eight years here on audiogon, I have bought and sold from and to the US as a German living in Moscow, now having moved back to Germany), without any problem wha... | |
| Synergistic Research's Tricon Phono Cable Hi, I wonder whether in the year that has passed any more 'goners have listened to, and compared, this cable - e.g. to the Nordost Tyr or the Cardas Golden Reference, or others.Thanks, Florian Hassel | |
| Ortofon Per Windfeld Load Impedance? Taylor514,the Windfeld, like other Ortofons, has a low internal resistance of 4 ohms only. In Germany, many vinyl-junkies use the formula of the load impedance being at least 10 times the value of the internal resistance, Bill Feil gave you the r... | |
| Shipping heavy speakers from USA to Europe? I second the Schenker recommendation. audioclassics just shipped my new McIntosh 501 mono amps with a weight of 140 or so pounds to Berlin flawlessly, fast and for only 400 dollars including insurance. Regards, Florian Hassel | |
| McIntosh MC402 or MC501's for Totem Mani-2 musicnoise, asserting that everybody who has bought something is blinded by his having spent money, and so automatically forces himself to think that the buy is better, is nonsense. If it were so, there would be no sense in a forum like audiogon a... | |
| McIntosh MC402 or MC501's for Totem Mani-2 Musicnoise, "So long as the amp stays linear (doesn't clip) there should not be any difference in the sound between the 402, 501's and 1.2k's". But there are - huge ones at at that. In fact, there are a lot of die-hard two-channel audiophiles over... |