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| Review: Aria WV5 XL (Line Stage only) Tube preamp Thank you jazdoc for the compliments. I was fortunate to have saved my notes from the last three months. I had been delaying this review for weeks. Only because a number of A'gon members have emailed me regularly asking about the WV's performance ... | |
| Power Cable with a "soft" top end threre is a dischotomy here. either a cable is soft or it isn't.But there are differences of softness as such differences can be detected by higher resolving systems.Let's look at the color red as defined by the RGB triplet (255, 0 0). This is as ... | |
| Power Cable with a "soft" top end Mr Tennis, there can be no absolutes in this game. It's simply not possible. Nobody here has the tools nor the power senses to relate to anything here in absolutes. The best we can do is to compare a product under evaluation to one whose "levels" ... | |
| Power Cable with a "soft" top end the problem with audiophile terms is that soft to one may be neutral to another. i can only speak from my experience as a listener and reviewer.I find that the problem with audiophile terms is that people tend to use them in absolute terms rather ... | |
| ARC Ref 3: Tung-Sol 6550 in power supply? I've been following this thread hoping to learn from the "experimental" owners of the Ref3 and their findings on various tubes here. Thank you Ethannnn and Elberoth2 for sharing the details of your findings. I hope to soon borrow a Ref3, perhaps f... | |
| Power Cable with a "soft" top end On the Aesthetix Io, Callisto, CAT JL-3 amps, Manley Ref Tube Dac, both Dominus PCs had clearly less treble energy(soft top end) than the KS Emotion. There is detail heard with the KS in the top octaves that was simply gone with the Dominus. I had... | |
| Power Cable with a "soft" top end Purist Dominus, particularly the fluid version, but also the Ferox compared to other brands. | |
| How do I turn off my Pass Labs X1? Ok ok, put it in a bath of water. That should do it. | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? ....and as Atmasphere pointed out, the more resolving your system is, the easier it is to hear the colorations of the transformer....The more resolving your system is, the easier it is to hear the colorations of anything! A large percentage of hig... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Ron, I'm sure that you are enjoying your system's performance and maybe what I posted could help you to think and try to improve it.No doubt Raul genuinely cares for everyone here to enjoy the music but such a comment implies that his way is ultim... | |
| Purist Proteus Provectus tonearm cable. Thanks JFrech for the update. The veiling was indeed my experience with the Venustas and Dominus phono cables but the midrange bloom was great....especially with the Dominus. But once I auditioned the Stealth Hyperphono, it was very clear how date... | |
| Counterpoint upgrades discontinued not all I will inject a different viewpoint here. The answer is simple: Aria WV. SA9's and SA11's have been selling in the $3-4K range for the last few years. Each of these to be fully updated was another $4k in cost. That takes the fully-updated pair's c... | |
| The use of equipment as "tone controls" I'd rather have an "anomaly" in the bass than run the signal through a filter and risk the loss of detail, ambiance, dynamic contrasts, etc., in the other 8-9 octaves. Now if you can correct this bass dip through a bi-amp process, whereas the uppe... | |
| Purist Audio "Purist 20th Anniversary" I/C It's great to hear of the new wave of Purist cables....mainly tonearm cables.I too ran with Venustas and then later Dominus tonearm cables. Once I compared the Stealth Hyperphono, the above Purist cables were grainy and had mediocre resolution on ... | |
| The use of equipment as "tone controls" Great response from Atmasphere on the issue of synergy. I agree wholeheartedly. "Balance", rather than synergy, has often been the word I have used to implement a system of products on their strengths. But "compatibility" is a great description of... |