hce1
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| Need Opinions for Different Cable Manufacturers/Cable Designs @kinarow1 I have extensive experience with DHLabs cables and you can’t go wrong with them. Great bang for your buck! In my experience, you can do better if you spend more. I also have used Audience ICs; in my system, they sounded thin and I resol... | |
| Decisions, decisions, decisions @bipod72 I had Vandersteen 2CE signature IIs for a number of years before moving into a smaller home, where the listening room simply would not accommodate them. I auditioned a boatload of stand mounted speakers at that time. One of my favorites w... | |
| Does it have to sound good for you to like it? i think it misleading to suggest that love of music and love of sound quality are antagonistic. I don’t deny myself enjoyment of any music. If I love it, I listen to it. But, I do limit the recordings I listen to in my main listening room to well ... | |
| Non-fatiguing speakers in $10K range? Consider Reference 3A. Like you, I like a detailed, but relaxed presentation of rock and roll, and the R3As suit me quite well. | |
| Example of a piece o’ crap, useless review I’m not saying there are no audio reviewers out there worth reading, but I haven’t read a review since Moncrief and Enid quit publishing the international audio review. They went well beyond what most reviewers were doing while they were active, a... | |
| if you had this system, what would you do to make it sound the best you can I strongly encourage you to optimize the system you currently have before you consider replacing any of your major components. I would do the following, in this order: 1. Boot the equalizer 2. Optimize speaker placement and listening position. ... | |
| Cable Break In for the Naysayers I really don’t understand why these arguments continue. Why do the two camps care about the “experience”, “perceptions” or “biases/expectations” of those in the other camp. If you don’t accept cable break in as real, why even open this thread, let... | |
| I want to replace the router/modem Comcast with a high quality for streaming @mitch2 see my response above | |
| I want to replace the router/modem Comcast with a high quality for streaming Sure. The fundamental improvement it offers when compared to the other routers I auditioned is a very significant reduction in the noise floor. I hear all of the musical benefits one would expect from a darker background: deeper and more realistic... | |
| I want to replace the router/modem Comcast with a high quality for streaming I recently had my ISP install the most recent router they have available for their customers: Calix. I was surprised to see and hear significant improvements in the video and audio performance on my television and the audio delivered from my ... | |
| Best Covers Lots of great covers listed already. +1 Greg Allman, These Days, but Nico’s is my fave cover of the song. +1 for all the Johnny Cash covers. The American Recordings are sensational. Let me turn it around and point out a great cover of one of J C... | |
| Your greatest high end audio purchase!!! I bought two components in the early 1980s with sonic signatures that matched quite well my listening biases/preferences: - a pair of Spica TC-50 speakers - a counterpoint sa-7 preamp These two components, combined with various front ends and a... | |
| Is There Just One Single Album That Does It For You, Completely? Just One. @unreceivedogma i’m hardly new here. I’ve been around for nearly 15 years, but don’t feel a need to comment on every thread; I try to reserve comments for discussions in which I have something appropriate or useful to say. It’s a shame you see tha... | |
| Is There Just One Single Album That Does It For You, Completely? Just One. @asmithkash I couldn’t agree more. I’m always thrilled by these kinds of discussions, for the opportunity they provide to learn about music I know not yet. I drew from this one a list of 8-10 LPs with which I am unfamiliar. They will guide my next... | |
| Router for Audio Streaming @wsrrsw Thanks very much. I suspected an LPS would darken the background, at minimum. Did you explore the effectiveness of the PSU without the clock, and the clock without the PSU? |