jsteigert
Responses from jsteigert
| Upgrade question: All in one or DAC? Buy a one box player. | |
| Absorbtion or Diffusion with dipolar speakers??? Thanks Elgordo. | |
| Chassis ground and balanced mode - please help me Mystery solved. I was working with a dealer on these speakers when this event occurred, getting ready to bring them home. He was behind the amp operating the switch. It turns out that things were actually working as they should have. The big hum c... | |
| Chassis ground and balanced mode - please help me Sean, If you look inside the Plinius it has two HUGE toroids separated by a metal horizontal divider from the compartment containing the circuit boards. This is already beginning to look like a pair of Faraday cages to me. J. | |
| Speakers that leave room to upgrade front-end Cones vs Planars, now there is a REAL fork in the road. | |
| Pass Labs X250 or X350? The X250 is a more recent design/build and has received its share of rave reviews. The X350 has reached a pinnacle of its own in the TAS recommended components listing. I think you have reached the point of diminishing returns in attempts to gathe... | |
| Chassis ground and balanced mode - please help me Ed, Both pieces are true balanced designs. I am not clear why Plinius lays out their spec in the way that they do. I need to ask them.Sean, Since the ground at the panel is common to all circuits, I am not surprised to find out that dedicated line... | |
| best amplifier to drive my Quad 988 speakers Kjl,You are absolutely right on. The 988s and 989s can deliver much more than the Quad amps/preamps bring out in them. I am about to purchase the 989s. I heard them first with a Plinius SA 102 amplifier, Plinius preamp and was STUNNED. I subsequen... | |
| Speaker priority: high or low??? Twl, I am with you. Speakers are definitely NOT the most important thing in the audio chain. Neither are they the least important thing. | |
| Can you ever have too much power? Bob bundusNicely articulated response. | |
| Can you ever have too much power? Consider the following. Quad speakers have a protection circuit to keep them from being over driven. However, it has been pointed out more than once that less powerful amplifiers tend to trigger the protection circuit more often than high power am... | |
| Lost in the Powercord Jungle I agree with Tok. Jump in carefully. The original Synergistic Research AC Master Coupler is the powercord that kicked off the aftermarket power cord industry, and can be had for $125 on Audiogon. This is what I use in my system, and have felt no n... | |
| What do in store listening tests prove? A savvy dealer can put together some pretty nice sounding equipment combinations. Recently heard a pair of Quad 989s paired with a Plinius SA 102. Wouldn't have missed this for the world. Killer combination. Bought it for VERY fair money.I visited... | |
| Is there a cable that can warm up my sound? I am not sure a cable will solve your problem, however you might consider this:I recently purchased a wireworld Supernova III+ TOSLINK cable. It is a GLASS (not plastic) optical cable that you can get for $99 here at audiogon. Used to be that coax... |