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| Worst speakers at Stereophile show There are a lot of things at a show that can mess up a great speaker. Many high end speakers that don't have at least 700 hours of break in, Ditto on wire, and if the wires are at a midway break in point they can sound atrocious, and electronics d... | |
| What is Best SS AMP for $2000 and under? Belles 350-A, there is one on Audiogon right now that is the newest version.The bass control is the best in the industry... period.I've had them in systems out to over $100k a to b against some of the finest amps made both solid state and tube. Th... | |
| Essence Electrostatic Speakers...A Bold Statement That is a bold statement, LOL | |
| Bowers and Wilkerson B&W 802 D3: an impolite Brit? I've had WATTS and Grand Slamms, there are a lot of ways to tame the ruthless nature of reference monitor caliber speakers. Tubes are one, a smooth quality source is another. One thing I will say is that six or seven years ago I had personally ext... | |
| Bowers and Wilkerson B&W 802 D3: an impolite Brit? I had just posted and made the point that the ruthlessly accurate speakers like Wilson Audio are system and wire dependent. If you can't figure out the neutral wire needed you aren't going to like this kind of studio monitor quality, you want poli... | |
| Bowers and Wilkerson B&W 802 D3: an impolite Brit? No....Either not fully broken in or wire in the system that is not a neutral wire.Years ago as a dealer for Meadowlark I got a lot of inquiries about the Herons and Blue Herons from guys with the 802, 801, and 800S, their main complaint being that... | |
| Attn Vinyl lovers - what CD Player do you use? I got the Electrocompaniet EMC-1up when it first came out, it was one of the few at the time that was vinyl like even with bad recordings. It has been musical and forgiving in the most extreme high end system demos. | |
| Power Cord with a 20 amp female and 15 amp male ? Here's a bit of advice from someone who had tied a few power conditioners and a lot of power cords. The wrong power cord on a conditioner (which already alters the sound sometimes in a bad way) just goes too far in even changing speed and the life... | |
| I'm studying MIT cables Lust... I had to laugh at that, I had a conversation with an MIT dealer on the San Francisco peninsula that was disturbing as well. I took cable into his store and put it in his six figure statement system for comparison, when I told him the entir... | |
| Quality Power Cord Just one train of advice as pertains to the question, make sure you've evolved your wires, the higher the resolution on the cables the more you will hear differences in power cords. There are a lot of enthusiasts that simply can't hear power cord ... | |
| A-B testing of cables labyrinth, you overstated your case on neutrality, there is neutrality, it's just hard to find. By definition neutral cable would be an absence of coloration, distortion, or imbalance of the complete tonal range. Anything that affects any tonal el... | |
| A-B testing of cables BDP you hit it on the head, the upstream i/c is the critical one, but it's improvements can't go much beyond the downstream cables which will have a cummulative degradation of what would have been possible had all the cables been upgraded. | |
| Cable Upgrades or Better Components??? Czarivey your logic doesn'tk equate to anything we are talking about.So what about my post you referred to was BS?Was it the part where I had complete lineups of tube and solid state gear, speakers from entry grade to $30,000, cable manufacturers ... | |
| Cable Upgrades or Better Components??? I am no longer a dealer, which is irrelevant to what I'm selling. If anyone calls me and what they need that fits their system is something I do not have I will recommend it.Quite frankly I was not trying to sell the original poster anything I hav... | |
| Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ? I had a set of 600's I took in trade for Belles 350-A monoblocks, they were nice LOL |