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| Tuff question= Banana plug to adapt to Spade ? OZZY - You made this sooooooo easy once you said Nordost bananas. Nordost makes an EXCELLENT banana to spade adapter that fits perfectly and tightly into their bananas and uses gold plated spades. The cost for a set of 4 is somewhere around $54.00... | |
| Eggleston, Merlin, Jean Marie Reynaud???? Pluto, my advise to you would be to use the system that Merlin showed at the Stereophile show in NY this year - Merlin MMX speakers with the SUPERB Filharmonia (tube) integrated amplifier. This was one of the best sounding systems I have ever hear... | |
| VPI new Super Feet for Scout/Scoutmaster/Aries Jamn - I have used the Herbies Audio "Way Excellent turntable Mat" in the past, but it makes centering the VPI outer ring clamp a PIA, so I stopped using the mat. I have an oversized Cloud 11 (with 6 balls) and isolate the HRX Motor assemble even ... | |
| VPI new Super Feet for Scout/Scoutmaster/Aries I have a SuperScoutMaster player and have been using a Cloud 11 under it for almost 18 months on the top of a Polycrystal rack. The opportunity came up to get a pair of the new feet from VPI and I got a set and put them on the system. I have to sa... | |
| Dream State Audio power cables? I have BAT VK200 monoblocks ( NOT a typo!) and was running them with Shunyata Python Alpha Helix powercords and was quite happy with the performance until I had a chance to listen to the Deep Dreams power cords from Dream State. The change was cer... | |
| preamp for berning/merlin/audio aero system Kjo - I would look at a VAC Renaissance as being a wonderful mix with your system - should add pinpoint imaging and give you depth to your soundstage that the Merlins will be make good use of. With balanced and single ended inputs and outputs, cin... | |
| Cable Burn-In Question Interconnect & Speaker Hi Oak3x - obviously Riffer is just trying to be helpful in his OWN way - otherwise why would he bother to comment???? We offer free cable burn in service with the purchase of any new cables, which helps out the guys with long runs and/or tube gea... | |
| Single, internal bi wire or internally? Hi Robert - I have to partially agree with Arthur (above) that you should forget the DH Labs cables . They are just not a good match for your speakers either with bi-wire or with jumpers. For far better performance in this setup at about the same ... | |
| Top ten tube preamps I cannot believe that I am the only one to list the VAC Renaissance as the all-round BEST SOUNDING tube pre I have ever used. Top that sound quality off with an included remote, cinema by-pass, dual RCA outputs AND XLR out, 100k Ohm input impedenc... | |
| Cables for B&W 805S Classical- The AU24 single with jumpers is a good choice for your speakers as is Elizabeth's suggestion for 8TC. The new Synergistic Research cables will also be a good performer for 805 speakers and Classe amp. My suggestion is to try a few of th... | |
| Speaker cables from same brand as interconnects? Hey guys - ease UP a bit on the critique! I said BASIC RULE OF THUMB it's best not to mix silver and copper conductors in the same system. Of course there are exceptions - I use Siltech (silver and gold) along with Nirvana interconnects and PAD sp... | |
| Speaker cables from same brand as interconnects? Chazzbo - your idea has very little merit. Cable shootouts only produce valuable results IF:- you happen to have the same components as the reviewer(s)- you happen to share the same listening preferences (acoustical presentation) as the reviewer(s... | |
| Speaker Cable for BW N802 and JC1 I have to agree with JPPenn - the PAD Aqueous Anniversary cables in a bi-wire configuration ( Purist ADDS conductors to make their bi-wire) should be a great cable for you - one that has you enjoying the music and has your toes tapping to it. Keep... | |
| Power Cord suggestions I use the 303/300 in my system and have tried a lot of different power cords with it before deciding on the best ( IMO) cord for it - the Nirvana Source AC power cord, which is not insanely priced ($595/1.5M), but gets the very best from the 303/3... | |
| power cable recommendation for dartzeel amplifier JUst to give you another low(er) cost option, I have a very good customer with two Dart amps and the pre-amp is on the way. He can afford to get any power cord he wanted, but chose the ESP Essence Reference as being the best sonic match with his s... |