jafox
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| Purist or Kubala-which to buy for entire system Sirspeedy: Kubala-Sosna cables do not come in a "phono" or "tonearm" design. When Joe Kubala visited my home last year, I asked this question and he told me his RCA cables would work just fine for this application. And since my Clearaudio tonearm ... | |
| Contribute to best speaker count. Magnepan 3.x series - Absolutely the best value in musicality. You need to spend 4-5x as much to move up to the next level (SoundLab). | |
| Purist or Kubala-which to buy for entire system Steve: I too have wanted to hear the SoundApplication PLCs after reading one great thing after another about these. I went out on a limb with the Audio Magic based on a lot of reading of PLCs and a recommendation by a local audiophile, Artg. When ... | |
| Purist or Kubala-which to buy for entire system Steve,First of all I wholeheartedly agree with Drubin.Interestingly enough, I am now a Purist owner. After hearing my system sound like never before when it was fully cabled by K-S Emotion, I had the opportunity to try a few Dominus cables in my s... | |
| Anybody tried 20th Anniversary Purist cables? Guido: Are you talking of Orthomyxoviridae?Nutella, if you read my first post to this thread, I give a pretty good idea of the Aqueous Anniv XLR with the speaker cables. In a word: VIVID! Too much of a good thing. Highly colored! | |
| Audio Research Reference CD-7 Kevinkwann: Accuracy with digital? Don't we all wish. Digital has a long way still to go to just render the decay of notes in a natural way. For me, who cares about all else that you might classify as accurate. Don't be so quick to slam a product ... | |
| MODIFIED COUNTERPOINT -comments????? If someone already has a 5000, then putting another $1k here could very well be a good sonic product. But forget about recouping your money anytime soon. Finding really good full-function preamps these days is tough in the under $5k range so the 5... | |
| Anybody tried 20th Anniversary Purist cables? Guido: CGC in 2nd place? Interesting results. I have not heard the CGC for over 5 years but remember its fat midrange and average performance on the top. Would be interesting to hear it again one of these days.Well Chris look at it this way, with ... | |
| Electraglide Epiphany -X VS Shunyata Excellent points by Tvad but why only these two models? I heard the Electroglide Epiphany X as part of a multi power -cable shootout and it was mighty impressive. But so was the Kubala-Sosna Emotion that same time. And since then, I have tried the... | |
| Anybody tried 20th Anniversary Purist cables? Chris, I must admit I too had very high expectations of the AA taking my system by storm. And I liked what the one cable did in my system so much so that I kept it. But unlike any cable I have tried in a long time, this cable is very system and ev... | |
| VAC Ren II, VAC Phi, or ARC Ref 3? Keithr: Very good points. | |
| Anybody tried 20th Anniversary Purist cables? "I mention this only because it might be contrary to conventional wisdom to use the more colored IC from CDP to preamp,....."If a cable is colored, I can not see how any conclusion can be made that a specific link should be the place for such a ca... | |
| thougts on arc ref1--please advise Mikesinger: The LS5 II came out just a couple years before the Ref1 and the LS5 III about a year after the Ref1. This was all in the 1994-1997 time. All these models are pretty much in the same boat if there is a need/desire to change old capacito... | |
| thougts on arc ref1--please advise I hate to sound like a broken record, but the Ref1 simply never did it for me vs. the lower priced LS5 II and III. And this was universal of everyone I knew who owned the LS5 or who did direct auditions of both. For the $3500 or so that the Ref1 i... | |
| Aesthetix Calypso, Tuberolling questions? Albert is indeed the resident guru in the Callisto and Io but Jadem6 has probably done more tube rolling and tweaking to the Calypso than anyone else out there. A good place to start is JD's review. |