john_l
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| Nordost SPM vs. Quatro Fil Entered this today. Notice today it has a -4,-2 rating. Whoever found this offensive, could you please explain your reasoning? Go ahead and use a fake email id. | |
| HELP I THINK IM IN OVER MY HEAD Way to go kweisner! Great guy for helping out like that! And +2's for all of you others too for being such helpful people. One potential problem with denon's and spades is that some denon's (at least mine) have a little plastic shield around the s... | |
| State of the Art? I don t care anymore. Cornfedboy. That's deep sh*t, or at least good comedy. You're the most zen-like lawyer I've ever met.A really nice little setup (I don't have all of it anymore) is a set of spica tc-60's with a conrad-johnson mv-50, sonograph SD-1 cdplayer, and an... | |
| cable selection, Analysis, MIT, Red Rose Oval 9's are excellent cables irregardless of price. I have audio physics virgos and am using some oval 9's. Another great cable I've used with audio physic is the $1100 nordost red dawn. I could not a/b them, but they were both flat out superb. I... | |
| Phono stage--please help I add in my big recommendation for the ph-3 too! Especially the part about it bringing out the ANALOG in your records. I heard my ph-3 head to head against several solid state and tube phono stages. My favorite because of the combination of warmth... | |
| CAT vs. AR LS25 vs. AR Ref 1 vs. Hovland I've got the ref 1. I have only compared it directly to an aleph P. The ref 1 is slightly less transparent and detailed than the aleph P, but does give the music a wonderful warmth and aliveness. It's very smooth and has excellent bass with a huge... | |
| Nordost SPM vs. Quatro Fil Hey Subaru,Using the aleph P and aleph 2's. I swapped out a 2 meter red dawn rca for a 2 meter spm xlr. I noticed a fairly large improvement in the systems level of detail and quietness. Could have been the switching to balanced cable.John. | |
| successor to Adcom Gcd750 I used to have a gcd-750. I also had my sony xa7es at the same time. I thought the 750 was a price leader for the 700 range, but the sony was quite a bit more transparent and detailed. I would just sell the 750 and buy a higher end cd player. You ... | |
| Best Copper IC under 200. I'm all for buying things as cheap as possible. I too wondered about this, so I just bought/borrowed a couple different cables in different price ranges, and I do find that you have to spend lots of cash to get the 'ultimate' performance. If you w... | |
| Best Copper IC under 200. I second the truthlink at $125ish used, $250 new. I a/b compared it to a nordost spm. It lost on sheer resolution, but it wasn't by much. Another very good cable I tried is the Audioquest quartz x3. I think you can find those in the hundred dollar... | |
| Stereo sounds better than 5.1? I'm not going to say the YOU'RE WRONG, because different people have different things they listen for. I agree that digital manipulation does assist movies. I've heard the full bore vandersteen signature surround system. I thought it was nice and ... | |
| Audio Physic: Virgo or Libra??? I would go for the virgo's in your smaller room. They don't go THAT deep (31khz or so), but they go there with complete authority. If you want stronger bass, you can either go with a monster solid state amp or pick up an audio physic terra subwoof... | |
| Okay Ladies Good one Avguygeorge! Made me laugh out loud ! I see a few women here and there with $1000-2000 systems. They tend to have less maniacal, more practical, decor-friendly systems. I even know a lady who built her own home surround sound theater ! Th... | |
| OK to hook up both RCA and XLR on amp? You do need to contact the manufacturer on this to make sure you don't blow anything up. A few months ago, I contacted McCormack about this. They said it was fine since my modified DNA amplifier had a toggle switch to switch between XLR and rca. T... | |
| New SACD Players Announced I just heard the 9000 at a friends house in his spectral/audio physic system (this means HIGH resolution!). Excellent CD player. I would put it in the same general category as the Sony XA7ES for CD playback. I did not A/B compare them. SACD was ou... |