johnnyb53
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| Power Cord for $50 or less? The Pangeas are good, but another option is to go to Zu Cable's closeout page and order a couple of the Birth cables. You have a 60-day return period. These are nice power cables, especially at that price, and are much more flexible and easy to us... | |
| New favorite VINYL Album? I'd have to say that my new ORG 2-LP mastering/pressing of Diana Krall's "All For You" album is my favorite. It takes my breath away. I have several really good LPs, but this one seems to just be a notch above my 200g Classic Records, 180g Speaker... | |
| New Zu Mission cable Jedinite24, have you added any Mission power cords into the mix?In May/June when I put in Wylde interconnect and Libtec speaker cables, I also spent 300+ hours burning it in. The resolution was undeniably better but it still sounded a bit edgy to ... | |
| ipod as source? I have an iPod cable from Ram Electronics similar to this, but without the USB drop. Wish I'd gotten it that way as it enables you to keep the iPod connected to AC power. Even so, this type of cable (and the RAM is a well-made cable) extracts the ... | |
| Monitors for Large Room There are some top level Sonus Faber monitors in your price range in the A-gon classified's right now. Sonus Faber has a long history of creating full-bodied room-filling stand-mounted speakers, at least going back to the Extrema in the mid-'90s. ... | |
| The Best Polished Glass Toslink Optical Cables? I really appreciate the info in this thread!I've recently concluded that red book files played from my MacBook sound significantly better than when the original CDs are played on either of my CD players. Right now I'm using a $10 mini-to-Toslink c... | |
| Best amp for my needs? Parasound Halo A21? It comes highly recommended and reviewed, and is priced at the midpoint of your price range. As for matching with ML, the Halo is very high current and wide bandwidth, so its speed and stability into reactive loads should be a ... | |
| Inexpensive sub for MG12's 10-06-10: Bob_reynoldsJohnnyb53, with all due respect, the OP stated he wanted to "make a large step up sonically." A 10" driver in a relatively small 30 pound box is not going to make clean bass at anything much above a whisper in a small room. A... | |
| Good Sound under $500 Your bass is a bit too strong and not too clear? From Totem Hawks?Hmmm... Maybe you just need some bass traps in the corners.Do you still have the Hawks' shipping boxes? To see if you need traps, take those boxes, stuff them full of wadded up news... | |
| Inexpensive sub for MG12's 09-28-10: Bob_reynolds$500 will not get it done. Besides the sub you need to consider room mode correction to get the most from the sub.Yes it will, if you know where to shop. Martin Logan subs (even their inexpensive ones) are designed to match w... | |
| What would be the best "attainable" Denon turntabl 10-06-10: LewmJohnny, Do you use the 500M? If you do, and if you like it, then fine. ...Nope. I was answering the OP's original question about an available, affordable Denon DD (I presume) turntable. Denon has a new $2500 anniversary model out the... | |
| Monitors for a small room - please help I would go with either the PSB Image B6 ($500/pr) plus a $1500 integrated amp, or the PSB Imagine B ($1K/pr) plus a $1000 integrated amp.Or if you also need cables and stands in that $2K budget, get the Image B6's and an $800-1K amp to leave $500 ... | |
| What would be the best "attainable" Denon turntabl I missed the memo when Denon discontinued the DP 500M, but I found a couple of vendors who still have them at around the old retail price. | |
| The Well Tempered Record Player and Denon DL103 10-02-10: ArmstrodJohnnyb53,Seriously, I added up to 10 grams in 1 gram increments before I gave up; this was in the days before the aluminum and wood bodies that add so much mass, so it was mostly uncharted waters. I'm not sure that adding so muc... | |
| The Well Tempered Record Player and Denon DL103 I had great success with Shure V15, ZYX Bloom, and Empire EDR.9. Check out Raul's MM thread for lots of suggestions for medium to high compliance carts at all price levels. They should all work well with the WTRP arm.The DL-103 is a very LOW COMPL... |