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| Questions About CAT JC-2 What is a CAT JC-2? Do you mean JL-2? We are talking about Convergent Audio Technologies, right? And what CAT website are you talking about? 10 resistors rather than 6? What do you mean? The earlier JL-2 and JL-3 amps can be updated to the newer r... | |
| Thoughts of Pass XA30.5, 60.5 Another option would be to look for a non XA series Pass amp for less money than a second XA 30.5, maybe a 150.5 or 250.5 for the lower frequencies and run a XA 30.5 on the top. As much as a crossover may be of benefit, I would try every technique... | |
| Norway Wow, Gilmour-like indeed! | |
| Lamm 2L Reference vs CJ GAT For all of you anti-remote people out there, please explain how a stepper motor driven analog volume control would degrade the sound. | |
| Preamp for someone who's never needed one? I tried the Rothwell attenuators and surprisingly, they did a major truncation of 3D and harmonics in the system. They were out instantly! | |
| How does the sound change as power cables burn in? Liguy, you completely missed the point made by Glory. Glory did not dismiss that power cords can have an affect on sound. The point was that there was no difference from a cord right off the production line to how it will sound after it has been b... | |
| How does the sound change as power cables burn in? Rapid as in listen to 2-3 tracks and then jump to cord2 do the same, and then return to cord1. In a highly resolving system, significant differences can be heard between many pairs of power cords. Examples include NBS Statement vs. Kubala Sosna Em... | |
| How does the sound change as power cables burn in? The issue of cable burn-in and how many hours s required has been discussed here repeatedly. There is absolutely no way to know for sure what any amount of time may change for a cable unless you can do a direct comparison to another same exact cab... | |
| How do the Magnepan 3.6r compare to the new 1.7 You can get a great killer deal on a used pair of 3.3 or 3.5 that the new 1.7 can't match either. The 3 series is altogether in a different performance class. The core implementation of each series will never allow a 1 series to perform like the 3... | |
| Amp more important than speakers? Jafox, why not keep the ARC and throw away the speakers?Because the many ARC amps out there with their wimpy power supplies and output transformers might not be suitable with the speakers, e.g., SoundLab, Magnepan, Apogee, MBL, that I might ultima... | |
| Amp more important than speakers? Back when I practically lived in "high end emporiums", we were "grooving mightily" to all ARC electronics and top of the line Thiel speakers, when someone came in who wanted to audition a Rotel amp. After the Rotel amp was inserted, with ARC pre a... | |
| Amp more important than speakers? Good signal anywhere ==> Garbage component any where ==> Garbage outI am another who feels that it is all about the room and thus what speakers will match with it. What walls are available, corners, odd room shapes, furnishings, etc. will di... | |
| Rives PARC parametric equalizer Interesting that this topic has returned. The comments by Rhljazz match my viewpoints on this subject. For a tube-based system where harmonic information and 3D is a strength of the system, the PARC is most definitely going to affect the performan... | |
| Question on the Purist Audio Limited Edition P/C's What power cords are you "upgrading" from? And why did you decide to start at the amp and then next to the preamp? My experience with power cords is that the digital components and phono/line stages react far more to power cords than do amps. The ... | |
| WOW; great stuff at THE Show, Newport this weekend This was indeed a great show for the first time in So Cal.I was disappointed with how many systems were just simply bland, ...... boring. There were far too many rooms that I entered but immediately left as the result was like a friend with me sai... |