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| Best Option In A Tube Preamp $1,800 Or Less - Used Belles 21-A auricap, get a pair of quality tubes, they determine the sound as a tube can and will.It was reviewed I think in stereophile in a statement system against a $10k+ Lamm and outperformed it, and that wasn't an upgraded auricap version. | |
| Designer Hall of Fame As a dealer who found one of the best amps and preamps at any price I would say Dave Belles.I instigated the creation of the first 350=A mono blocks, in A/B comparison listening at my place and customer's homes I had guys trade me for several of t... | |
| A-B testing of cables Cable questions of the profound "what is the meaning of cable" are always entertaining by right of how many clueless people are going to give you their profoundly ignorant and useless advice. Unfortunately far too many dealers and "experts" will g... | |
| Who uses home brew cables? Wire build and configuration is going to make a huge difference, the problem as transparency goes up the need for shielding gets bigger, then shielding colors the sound. A large segment of the audiophile world works with coloration and the synergy... | |
| Seeking more 3d imaging, deeper/wider soundstage No matter what kind of equipment you have the image and sound stage is going to be determined by interconnects and speaker cable. I first learned this as a dealer and couldn't figure out why the imaging was limited on a seriously high end system. ... | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? You get the picture.... | |
| How do you determine how much to spend on speakers As your system and wire gets better so do the way the speakers sound.Small equipment and speakers can focus more quality into less, the bigger the speakers typically the bigger the power has to be. Small quality power can drive smaller high qualit... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? There's something worth paying attention to, as we talk about "best" as relates to speakers there's a big difference between those costing over $50k, under $10k, and somewhere between.Yet there are those notable speakers that don't break the bank ... | |
| Cable Costs Relative to System This was an Aerospace engineer as he liked to call himself, he was an electrical engineer for a local defense contractor that makes rocket and propulsion systems for weapons. He wouldn't put more than $150 into interconnects in his $40k system bec... | |
| Cable Costs Relative to System This was an Aerospace engineer as he liked to call himself, he was an electrical engineer for a local defense contractor that makes rocket and propulsion systems for weapons. He wouldn't put more than $150 into interconnects in his $40k system bec... | |
| Transparent or Nordost? Try entry or mid grade JPS or Audience AU-24 and you'll never buy another set of either. I used to use multiple grades of each as an example of what coloration does compared to neutral. Both can be bought with money back guarantees, what's to lose... | |
| Cable Costs Relative to System As a dealer I had obvious advantages in terms of trying a vast array of equipment and cable, manufacturers would send me their complete arrays from entry to flagship with enough to do a whole system. The painful part was breaking cable in to be ab... | |
| Cable Costs Relative to System Elizabeth and Mitch2I don't believe it makes sense or you can put a price relative to the system. There's too big a gap between performance and price, meaning the "best" cables cost a fraction of what the most expensive cables cost.To Mitch2, as a... | |
| Cable Costs Relative to System I wouldn't even worry about power cords except to put a decent budget upgrade on until you have brought the interconnects and speaker wire to a highly improved state | |
| Cables Are Crazy, what do you think? Ask your brainy friend a few questions:1. What does cable loss refer to?2. What is meant by a wire's field effect3. What is impedence?All of these are recognized wire integrity issues affecting signal quality, how could it not affect high end sound? |