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| Should we care if a piece of equipment comes from a pet-free, kid-free, smoke-free home? I had purchased an amp on EBAY that said smoke free. As soon as I broke the seal on the box it smelled like a thousand ash trays. It is very important. The pet free can be important. I would appreciate them blowing out the component with a compres... | |
| Townshend Isolation Products. These are great products that really work. I love that the platform is designed to the weight and size of the component. I already had Symposium under the speakers otherwise I would totally look into Townshend. | |
| SPEAKER CABLE OR INTERCONNECT I think this can be system dependent. Hopefully you can try both out first or return the one that did not perform the best over the other. That being said. Treat your room first. Way more important than those two cables. If you have done that then... | |
| Seeking Bookshelf Recommendations 🙄 I might be a bot. No Im human, I made a mistake. KEF Ref 3 Meta. One of my favorite in that price range. If you can find a used pair of Revel M126. I love the glossy walnut. I have the Revel Studio 2. They do good without room treatments but ar... | |
| Ethernet Cables - what are you using and why? Triplite 8. I want to try this $50 10’ cat 45 cable on Amazon. I just have not felt I needed to even try it. I know these cables and network switches make a huge difference. I would rather spend that money treating the room. Which I am slowly doin... | |
| How does speaker placement affect the width of the soundstage? Also, Stillpoint Aperture panels. Pretty expensive! | |
| How does speaker placement affect the width of the soundstage? Try an ESP Music Cord Pro ES power cable. It is amazing. Bigger better sound stage without being harsh. It is very, very important to setup the speakers. This will be crude: Starr with your speakers flat ( no toe in) keep towing in until you get... | |
| Seeking Bookshelf Recommendations I don’t know your budget. $10k is Arrtai bookshelf $16k us Sonner bookshelf with matching stands. if these are in your budget then you are welcome. if you are in the Chicagoland area I believe Holm Audio is a Sonner dealer and can probab... | |
| 40+ watts SET, cost is not a problem CAT JL5. Convergent Audio Technology This is so easy. The CAT JL5 can drive the smallest speakers with all of the detail and sound stage you could ever want. I just saw them at Axpona driving the new baby Clarysis Piccolo speakers. Also, my fri... | |
| Noob question about streaming . . . My second system is my Marantz 7704 going into a NAD M25 7 channel amp into Soliloquy 5.3 speakers. I use HEOS to play tidal. I think it’s amazing. I would say spend the money on a nice used power cord on the preamp. Puritan makes a classic power ... | |
| How Is This Possible? Must be Counterfeits This reminds me when people used to turn their Pontiac Fiero into a Ferrari with a body kit. I was just talking to my wife about this at breakfast this morning. How the Chinese sell CAT preamps for next to nothing. It makes me kind of mad that ou... | |
| Loud pop/screech when powering on amp Let caps drain for a few minutes after you unplug the amp but before you open it. | |
| Loud pop/screech when powering on amp Cap blew. Unplug, open up, and look for bulging cap. | |
| Turntable advice Harmony and the ML. Later you can upgrade to the Umami blue/ Red. They have a really great trade in policy at certain times of the year. | |
| This One has Me Stumped Just buy a Pass amp. The 30.8 is a great amp. a lot of people do not understand you have to have your amps specs line up with your preamp or DAC/Streamer used as a preamp. hegel like higher powered amps and weaker preamps. American equipment typ... |