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| Tweaking a lower end SACD player tips Hi David: For about $20 or so you can make considerable sonic improvements to the player. You are on the right track with damping. Go to Home Depot or similar and buy the industrial linoleum floor tile (about 80 cents for a 12 x 12 or so piece, yo... | |
| CD Mats The Herbies Mat is great value. You can read a review I posted here in the review section.Highly recommended. | |
| Fancy wall plugs? Remember that you should do every receptacle in your system (wall, line conditioner etc.) In my opinion the PS Audio can be bettered for about $10 U.S. (providing you don't need a 20 amp receptacle) with a Hubbell HBL 5262. Cryoed versions of the ... | |
| What power cord would you recommend? I have no real experience with $500 cords, but your question relates to up to $300 and I do have a bit of experience there. My suggestion is this: buy 4-5 ft. of the cryoed JPS in-wall cable from Gene at Takefiveaudio, along with a cryoed Marinco ... | |
| Absolute Power Cord users, please... Sorry, no ideas on the interconnects or speaker cables without spending the big bucks on a cable cooker. | |
| Absolute Power Cord users, please... Vvrinc: I think it's more a function of the huge initial draw that refrigerator/freezer compressors have when they kick in, although a fridge itself will probably be a much higher draw even when it's just running. When the fridge compressor kicks ... | |
| Absolute Power Cord users, please... Vvrinc: You can buy an adapter to burn the cord in on a fridge from Chris Venhaus for about $12 (which I just did), or you can probably go to any computer/electronics store and buy a male iec to 3 Prong plug adapter for about $3-$4 (which I also j... | |
| New ACME outlet sounds worse Although I am not a fan of the Pass & Seymour outlets I have used so far (I have a cryoed P&S 5262A breaking in at the moment on a chest freezer that I'll eventually try in the next few months) you really shouldn't make any judgement on th... | |
| need more smoothness I would agree with the felting the tweeter advice above, but would also attack the problem (if you haven't already) with some very inexpensive power items. Cryoed Hubbell 5262 or 5362 outlets or Porter Ports, Quantum Electoclear Filter (approximat... | |
| Source for JVC XRCD Agree with Jond. Recently purchased a number of K2's and they are outstanding. From a sound quality standpoint, I'd put the K2 of Bill Evans "Sunday at the Village Vanguard" right up there with the XRCD I own of "Waltz for Debby" at about 40% of t... | |
| Audiolab 8000A and 8000S From looking at my 8000A manual, I read it that you are going to have to do the internal modification whether you are going to use it as a preamp or power amp. You cannot simply hook up the A and use it as a preamp (if I am interpreting the manual... | |
| Superbowl on High Definition What I really want to know is if the "Lingerie Bowl" is going to be broadcast in high def. | |
| Anyone still do insightful or intelligent lyrics? Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits | |
| Amazing XRCD I just purchased.... Jon: This is just an educated guess after reading the info included in both the K2's and XRCD's (which is in much greater detail) included with the CD's about the remastering process. It appears that both use 1) JVC 20 bit 128x oversampling 2)JVC ... | |
| Amazing XRCD I just purchased.... Following up on my post above, the K2's which I purchased have been great. Although I have no corresponding XRCD's to compare them to, I would say that they are sonically close to or = to the XRCD sound for a lot less money (typically $14.98 list)... |