jsawhitlock
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| In wall power cabling- for Apartment Dweller The only choice you have in wire that's not costly is romex, but have them run 10 guage to your power ports.It would be nice to have three lines run as you can use the first one for Amps, second one for Digital and third for Preamp etc.. Next I wo... | |
| What cables should I get? If you already have IC and speaker wire you may consider running dedicated lines, and pick up a power conditioner first, Ps Audio Ultimate Outlets.I think wire like signal or any of the DIY stuff is no better than what you currently have so I thin... | |
| M. Logan Requests- Tube Suggestions in $1.5-2K?? You may want to check out Classe Audio as I use two Classe 25 amps with the Class CP-60 preamp with my Ascents and the system sounds nice. I find the Classe amps work great with Logans, I also use a Sonic Frontiers SDF-2 tube D/A which matches wel... | |
| Power cable for P600 The PS Audio Labs and Statements work well with the power plants. Happy Listening! | |
| Audioquest is bright?? This may not be a brightness problem from the Audioquest cables but a speaker placement problem, as I have found switching cables or components require the speakers to be moved, sometimes a slight toe in or out will make a huge improvement, I find... | |
| Is $18,000 enough for a high end HT? 18,000 will get you a great HT system, do the home work and buy here on Agon and DONT listen to the no you can't people! Remember the $18,000 is going to get you approx. $36,000 retail if you buy used! I would pay much attenion to the electronics ... | |
| Cable newbie help You may consider trying a few different brands to start off with, next is your budget, lets say you had $200 to spend on wire. You dont get much in the way of bi-wire for $200, so I would consider spending $200 on a better single run for now then ... | |
| DYI diffuser kits/plans I would not go down the DIY room treatment path, unless you dont care how they look! It's not the case for everyone but consider what you need to know about room acoustics as it's complicated. There are many products out there that wont break the ... | |
| Newby problem with hum Smcull, I have not tried the AP wire but have tried the PS Audio Statements and Plus. I have Martin Logans so I use the Statements for the woofers and the Plus on the panels. I think my speaker wire search is over as I'm very happy with the sound.... | |
| Stand question: Lovan vs. VTI I use the lovan and very happy with them. The VTI look simular and are a bit less money. I think you cant go wrong with either. The lovan uses different wood shelves as for the VTI they use MDF and I dont care for MDF shelves. The lovan stands are... | |
| Amp Stands--- How high? ----Sandbox?? If you want to go cheap, pick up some one inch MDF and cut to size then add three or four cones, pick some granite paint up and paint. I use to use the sand boxesand I felt they dulled the sound of my system! so I use the lovan stands with maple p... | |
| Should I leave my equipment on ? I have found in my system that when I leave all equipment on it sounds better. If for some reason I have to turn my system off to install a new peice or what ever I find my amps take the longest out of all my equipment to warm up, about 24 hours t... | |
| Tube dampers? The Hal-O are the choice!Happy Listening! | |
| Cable run in burn in time Beware of over cooking your cables, I think that after you have approx. 200 hours on your cables they are 90% broke in and that last bit will come in time. I also notice when cables are disconnected the sound is some what thin or less dynamic and ... | |
| CD upgrade Hear4, you can combine the two but I think you need to up your budget a bit, Theta, EAD make nice DVD/CD players. If two channel is more important do the transport now, then perhaps a Phllips 985 DVD/Recorder for the DVD. I have found the playback... |