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Audioquest Water vs Kimber KCAG
5 or 6 hours burn in is Nothing!  Please give the AQ cables about 200 hours before judging.  Patience is a virtue! 
Synergistic Red Fuse ...
I've been emailing about the iQSE with Chris Johnson, president of The Parts Connexion.  They are now stocking the new, final version of the iQSE.  I ordered three of them an hour ago.  I'm planning one each for my disc player, preamp and amp.  Sh... 
2017 Honest Cabling that doesn’t promote bankruptcy
clarification to barbapapa above...The Parts Connexion is located in Ontario, Canada. 
Is Spiking Necesarry?
A big +1 for lowrider57!! 
2017 Honest Cabling that doesn’t promote bankruptcy
I would encourage you to consider Clear Day interconnects and speaker cables.  All cables are made of soft annealed silver and made for you by the designer, Paul Laudati.  He would be happy to discuss your system and how his cable offerings may or... 
Synergistic Red Fuse ...
"nattering nabobs of negativism" 
Synergistic Red Fuse ...
the origin of "stealth" technology... 
Isolation footers for amps
+1 audiopoint I couldn’t agree more. For the reasons that you stated, I have treated the insides of all of my components with vibration absorbing material to mitigate as much vibration from within and without. It takes some time to treat every cap... 
Synergistic Red Fuse ...
If you read the Positive Feedback review and read after that you'll see a pic of two iQSEs attached to the right and left of two high quality power cords plugged into the wall outlet.  The owner said he experienced sonic improvements with this app... 
Synergistic Red Fuse ...
After reading about the iQSE yesterday, I emailed Parts Connexion to see if they would be carrying them along with the other Bybee products in their line. Here is their response.  Bybee is re-designing it…..so, we are between production runs. New ... 
Isolation footers for amps
@andrei_nz    Vibration/resonances are the enemy of ALL audio equipment.  Doesn't matter whether tube or solid state.  Don't know if you've ever tried to treat for vibration but if not, why not give it a shot?  Herbie's Audio Lab has a 90 day full... 
Isolation footers for amps
Herbies's Tall Stiff Tenderfeet.  Very neutral effect across the frequency spectrum.  Softer footers sucked the life out of bass impact.  Ugh. 
Your last concert was to see who and when?
Pink Martini at the Keswick Theater - second time seeing them there.  Good show but the pianist (band leader) was sick which did effect the vitality of the performance.  Saw them this past December.  Would definitely see them again! 
John Atkinson's thoughts on the New Vandersteen System Nine from LA Show
ALERT!  I am a Vandersteen owner.  I'd like to humor myself with the notion that I can get over my "fanboy" status and attempt objectivity.  I've had the pleasure of listening through various brands of fine transducers and regard them accordingly.... 
Why demagnitize an optical reader?
It has also been asserted that the inks used the non-read side of a digital disc have magnetic properties that can have a negative effect on the sound of a played disc.