jpan
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| Your single most significant purchase mistake? Not measuring twice and buying an extra 1.0M worth of interconnects and power cords. It was compounded by the fact that I have mono blocks and two subwoofer amps and they are sited 12 feet from the preamp. That's a lot of extra cables/cords--and t... | |
| The New Synergistic Research Purple Fuses I might start a new post with the title Most Tedious Thread--Let's Vote. If I do, I'll put this one near the top. Good grief. Try the purple fuses. Then try them in each direction. Do you like what you hear? It's a simple if/then and yes/no. A... | |
| Turntable versus tonearm versus cartridge: which is MOST important? In short, the answer to your question is the table and arm are the most important in the scenario you've described. | |
| Liquid stylus cleaner without solvent I use two products. Osage AIVS Enzymatic Stylus Cleaning fluid and Lyra SPT. I recently started using the Osage AIVS as a way to do a little deeper cleaning with it's included brush. It seems very effective. And, I've been a long time user of the... | |
| How do you know when a stereo sounds good? I’m a music lover first and an audiophile second. For a long time this served me well, until we bought a house and moved from a flat. Prior to that I sat near field and I was happy listening to music. After moving to a much larger space the room b... | |
| The New Synergistic Research Purple Fuses Just put two SR Purple fuses into my Pass mono blocks. It's a slam dunk. Out of the box it's better detail, imaging and soundstage. I can't wait for them to break in. BTW, I have SR cables and interconnects but I was a bit skeptical about the... | |
| Next upgrade? What kind of stand or rack do you use? What are using for couplers or feet under your gear and speakers? Hey, this is not the same as cables or power... Seriously, I would invest here and raise the level of all your components. | |
| What tube pre-amps pair well with Pass amps? I've often wondered about this, for different reasons like the allure of tubes etc. I'm run the Pass Labs XP-22, XP-17 and the XA60.6s with an analog front-end only. I recently put in a distributed bass array and altogether I'm blown away and qui... | |
| Do you use a Subwoofer when listening to stereo? "Do you use a subwoofer when listening to stereo?"Not one but four.I am another convert -- and now huge proponent -- of using a distributed bass array. The change is gigantic. Unparalleled. | |
| Synergistic Research HFT's Fast forward five months and this is what has happened in summary:1. Bought a number of GIK acoustic panels to cover early reflection points. Mine are moveable and I move most of them in and out for listening sessions. They are easy to do so. (It ... | |
| MY SONIC LAB Cartridges I went from a Lyra Titan i to a My Sonic Lab Gold Signature. I love it.When I was researching, a friend pointed me to My Sonic. I had a discussion with a dealer of Lyra, MSL and Koetsu and he said on a spectrum you could generalize that Lyra was t... | |
| Rank the tweaks, geeks! Power, interconnects, speaker and isolation. Clean your contacts and treat your cables/cords w/ an anti-static. I like Kontak and Nordost Eco 3X. | |
| As you have moved on, are there any items you remember fondly...or most fondly? Pass Labs Aleph 5It bums me to this day. O where art thou? | |
| Is there any value in ultrasonically cleaning a record multiple times? I've been down this path. If you're only using the Ultrasonic on its own, then I would say not at all. However, if you're using the Ultrasonic unit with a surfactant, then I would say, yes absolutely. I saw the light after reading the Audiophile M... | |
| Synergistic Research HFT's I'd put it this way: HFTs are better than nothing but they are not acoustical treatments that help with things like early reflections and the like. They help reduce high frequency energy. How do I know this? I'm living it.I have a large open floor... |