jond
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| Favorite reviewer? I like both Art Dudley and Roy Gregory. They're both excellent reviewers but they're also good writers, something sorely lacking in audio criticism. | |
| Good CDP with digital input/DAC capable I have an awesome sounding player dac from Tube Technology with a digital input via BNC or optical. You can get a BNC coax adapter so that it will work with your coax output. It's an awesome player with the same dac section as the Chord DAC64 and ... | |
| Review: Wadia 581i CD Player It doesn't sound like a fair fight as something was obviously wrong with the Wadia. There shouldn't be crackling of any sort, so there was an issue that might have been hampering performance. You should get the unit repaired and try again. Thanks ... | |
| Victor Kalilec Vpk member name on Audiogon passes My condolences to you and to his family. | |
| are any of your friends audiophiles? I'm just a guy who loves music, it's my love of shiny things that gets me in trouble! I have several friends who love music as much as me, but they seem totally indifferent to sound quality. It really boggles my mind, since a rather modest investm... | |
| efficiency- hope i spelt that wright. In addition to what's stated above about efficiency and impedance speakers with exceedingly complex crossover design, i.e. Wilson, will be intrinsically harder to drive no matter how forgiving the other specs. That's why speakers such as Reference... | |
| Members with No Feedback Keep in mind everyone that Audiogon is also the Stereophile Marketplace and I think that link attracts many new members. I like to think that when I started out more established members gave me a chance, I would hope most of us would do the same. ... | |
| CD Player: "Love at First Listen" recommendation My Tube Technology Fusion CD64, I read a rave review and thought, this can't possibly sound as good as this review says. Well when it showed up and I hooked it up, wow, it sounded even better! It's the one component that I may keep forever. | |
| 3 way vs. 2 way Since you say this dealer is your friend definitely get an in home audition. Also if you want better advice from us it would be helpful to know the room size and associated equipment. Good luck! | |
| Rega Saturn Late Model Following up on Narrod's comment, the Saturn will play the cd layer of hybrid sacd's, but the redbook cd player only. | |
| How loud are Cary CAD 300 SEI amps? It really depends on the efficiency of your speakers, but with speakers of benign impedance above 90-92 db sensitivity you should have no problem filling a small to medium sized room with great sound. Do you have speakers in mind? | |
| Leaving DAC on all the time OK? Why not just leave the transport on also? Neither component consumes much power idle, so no real harm to the environment or your electric bill. | |
| Speaker Cables for SET Amp I find that tubes and silver cables work really well together. I currently use Ridge Street Poiema!! speaker cables with a pp EL-34 amp to great effect. Of course there is no one right answer, experiment. It is very easy with cables to just buy, t... | |
| Vacuum tubed tone control??? Musical Fidelity has just such an item, called the X-10D Tube Buffer, and they're cheap and easy to come by both new and used. Try Audio Advisor for a new one or just do a search here. | |
| Important Interconnect Question Zar,To clarify if your digital cable is balanced AES/BU then it should be 110 ohms and not 75. But Frank at Signal Cable should know that. |