john_l
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| Magneplanar 1.6 break in period I have heard from several magnepan owners that they sound really bad until they are broken in for 200+ hours. Then they sound really good ! Great speaker. | |
| Original Box VS No Box...does it matter? To me, the original box is always a very good thing but may be offset by a trustworthy seller. With lighter, or older items like CD players and cables, I don't care as much. It really depends. The bad thing is when the seller makeshifts inadequate... | |
| Speaker Wire For Dynaudio I have heard that the dynaudio's have a direct input connector for sumiko OCOS cables. Those are coax type cables that usually need adapter's to connect from the coax endpoint to spade or bananas found on speakers. You can plug the OCOS coax type ... | |
| Transparent Cables - Worth the money? I recently heard the spm compared against the transparent reference. I felt the transparent was a touch better. Ultra-hirez system with wilson speakers & BAT electronics. I also found the audio salon dealer's comments quite useful. It's great ... | |
| Are these cables a good buy? I would try something else since you want to experiment with different components. Keep in mind too that equipment is tuned by the 'right' cables. Once you have the equipment that floats your boat, you can then look to the 'big bucks' cables. MIT ... | |
| Wanted leads on blues, blues rock folk Great thread. Check out Eddie Campbell's King Of the Jungle. One of the best blues guitar tones out there. I like JL Hooker's 'Chill Out' quite a bit too. I think it's his best album. The great musicians he has joining him are outstanding as well:... | |
| Absolute Sounds 100 best albums Leonard Cohen Sucks ? Now THAT's a mistake! His later albums: I'm Your Man and The Future are some of the best out there. Give me Stalin and St. Paul ! He's one of the few 'artistic' lyracists who can actually pull off a good song without sounding... | |
| ARC LS 25 MK II vs. BAT VK30SE I'm using a ref 1 now. Has anyone had good experiences with nos tube swaps with these ? Recommendations ? (please try to keep the tube cost under $25 ea). The ref 1 take eight of them! How much are the 6H23s from Upscale ? | |
| Vote for the best speakers in 10K range Telescope_trade: I've heard the adrenalines at a friend's house hooked up to a spectral and rowland setup. Quad Rowland amps ! I thought they sounded like a very large, detailed, and refined multi-coned dynamic speaker. Probably the most remarkabl... | |
| Audio physic Virgo vs Maggie 1.6 QR The mv-50 is a 45watt el-34 based tube amp. It's the predecessor to the current mv55 and integrated CAV50. Of the amps listed, this twelve year old $600 amp was the number two favorite, behind the 2 month old $5000 100w arc vt100m2. The mv-50 actu... | |
| Pass aleph 5 vs. mccormack 125 If you want some power, I recommend the dna over the pass labs. It's a better amp for rock. The pass labs is better for quieter music. I used to own the dna1revaGold and the pass labs aleph 2. The pass labs had a more pure sound with amazing clari... | |
| Amps for Virgo : TUBE or SOLID? I do slightly prefer tubes, but I found that this speaker worked quite well with solid state as well. Pass labs is a great solid state match. I think overall it was the best amp I used with the virgo's. It's ultra pure amplification complements th... | |
| Where do you guys buy replacement tubes? Kevin returned my phone call, listened well, and proved to be one of the best retailers I've encountered. On top of it, Kevin really knows what he is talking about. That doesn't happen by magic; it takes time and work. I hope other people recogniz... | |
| Sony SCD-1 Try to see if there is a switch to turn off the balanced outputs. If there isn't a switch, get a gold jumper pin from an audio dealer, and place in the balanced output pins. Also, make sure you don't have interconnects or speaker cables near your ... | |
| Best value for the buck speaker cables On the topic of 'cheap cables'. I found the oval 9 to be an excellent cable by any measure. It is a little slow compared to the OCOS cable I tried, but more detailed. Very smooth. On that topic, the ocos is a great value too. Very quick with a goo... |