ieales
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| What albums, in your opinion, sound unquestionably better on Vinyl rather than Digital? It’s a crap shoot as to which will be better.Back in the Vinyl only era [ cassettes are Lo-Fi ] quality varied drastically from plant to plant, sequence in the stamper run and most assuredly by country / region. Artists with clout could specify al... | |
| recommendation for speaker wire to soften the highs if possible @erik_squires +1Room first, then electronics, then cables.@gunmetalzin - what version of Monster? They made many @ multiple price points.Where are the speakers placed in what shaped and how furnished room? At what height relative to ears. Try sit... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. Individual cables have a higher inductance and lower capacitance.Thinner wire has higher inductance.Inductance has more effect in the lower audio range and capacitance at super sonic frequencies.A non-uniform twist* has varying inductance and capa... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. I'd be curious what you might like in the $1000 range, if anythingI could not presume to assume even in the $10 range. As mentioned, I use Transparent interconnects and have heard excellent sounding systems with Transparent, MIT, Monster and other... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. inna, please don't take offense but the Purist design leaves much to be desired from an electrical perspective. The cable arrangement is electrically equivalent to a network, just with different parameters. I find their bi-wire design specious as ... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. At least I pretend I am.ROTHFLMFAO! | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. Just FYI, Audio Advisor makes Rocket 44 as a No Frills option, not Rocket 88. | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. There are many things that one should avoid touching.If one has sipped the manufacturer's Kool-Aid, one may tend to see the world in an altered reality. | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. Audioquest Rocket 88As Arte Johnson said, "Very Interesting... But Stupid" IMO, AudioQuest plays way too much BuzzWordBingo.No doubt they will have a ’sound’ and could be very similar to Kimber 8PR which are 1/3 the money at NeedleDoctor. No affil... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. What is your excuse?Bryan was a friend, my missus worked with Michael Kamen on some films, we liked the movie, "Have you ever Really Loved A Woman?" is a great song, the London Met Orchestra is always good, Bob Clearmountain is a great mixer, I ad... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. glupson, is Don Juan DeMarco a reference?======================================WARNING NOTE: Any disc that has been reissued / remastered is as likely as not to be inferior to the original. Friends and I have sent our various versions around witho... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. glupson, my audiophile story is here http://ielogical.com/Audio/. In truth, it goes back to my Dad's Bogen in the 50'sMy pals and I first discovered that cables don't sound the same by accident in the early 70's when listening to one another's amp... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. OFC - Oxygen Free CopperLCC - Linear Crystal CopperI’ve got to listen to each cables performance "in situ" at home with my own system and listening environment to judge its musicality. Is that close?Spot on.Additionally, if auditioning over severa... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. Before getting too carried away, a lot of metal science is carried out at very low temperatures and DC, neither of which apply in audio. As temperatures and frequency rise, performance tends to converge.Back in the 80’s, we found that dielectric a... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. But in Mike's case he has VPI TT, 8005 CD, Luxman Int Amp & A3s so speaker cable is the wild card.He may find that the ROI for 1-2-3 K$ in speaker cables is very poor relative to whatever he has lying around. |