jwpstayman
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| best power cords for my levinson 436's Hi Grr - you stole my suggestion!!! Although I would have probably encouraged you to go with the new Purist Aqueous Anniversary power cords, which are 95% of the Dominus performance at a much lower cost. I am sure that your improvement in sound wa... | |
| Double your pleasure with same cable throughout? Hi - hopefully I can jump in and add something on this issue. There are several companies that produce cables that almost always give the best performance when used throughout a system. MIT, JPS Labs, Virtual Dynamics, Transparent, and Synergistic... | |
| THE LATEST---Gold plated fuses? I have replaced all 5 fuses in both of my BAT VK200 monoblocks with the HFT fuses (waiting for the moans and groans). Those of you that are quick with math will realize that this is an almost $300.00 upgrade cost. I try to rate all audio purchases... | |
| Tonearm Rewiring I second ( or third) the recommendation of Brit Audio - VERY good work, reasonable prices, and very knowledgable on the subject of analog. I feel very comfortable referring friends to Michael at Brit because I know they will be pleased with the sp... | |
| Kontrapunkt B or karat 17Dmk2 This might help - the 17d IS a very good cartridge, BUT - it is very light in weight (5 grams)and won't work well without adding a cartridge head weight on this arm. It will sound like there is no bass - exactly like the first comment in this thre... | |
| Best mat for Transrotor table? You certainly can't beat the Herbies Audio "Way Excellent Turntable Mat" for performance with this platter. I think they are arouind $50.00 or so and well worth the cost. They are thin enough so you don't have to adjust VTA ( unless you are really... | |
| What are good phono cables ? There are lots of decent phono cables around. I have had very good results using Cardas Neutral Reference phono ( the least expensive very good phono cable at | |
| Good Interconnects for NAD? Pmt - the cable that you want to get the best from your NAD cd player is a vandenHul D102 III Hybrid. Of all the cables that we handle (60+ brands), our customers rave that the D102 brings out the best in NAD players at a reasonable price. I hope ... | |
| What speaker cables work well with Nordost Valhall With your setup using Alon speakers, I would sugegst that you try some Alpha Core Goertz AG1 or AG2 speaker cables,Virtual Dynamics NIte or David, or perhaps Audio Magic Triniums. The secret to a good system match is to try and match the transfer ... | |
| BEST LOW VOLUME FULL RANGE SPEAKERS? My choice for this application would be the Merlins VSM- MX speakers. Small footprint, gorgeous sound at low, medium and high levels, excellent soundstaging, easy to drive and stunningly good looking. There are literally hundreds of speakers that ... | |
| what would be a good mat for a VPI SCOUT JWM9 Sorry to have to disagree here, but both the Scout and ScoutMaster will benefit sonically in a very large way from the use of an aptly named product called the "Way Excellent Turntable Mat" from Herbies Audio (http://herbiesaudiolab.home.att.net/)... | |
| Cable auditions - Hard Work? Auditioning cables is hard work - but it doesn't have to be excrutiatingly painful and the benefits can be great. The place that I get demo cables from to try (The Cable Company)has them already broken in, so unless I am trying something silver-ba... | |
| What Integrated To Match Cremona Audiors There are a couple of integrated amps that I would consider for use with this speaker. The first would be the VAC Super Avatar, one of the all-time best sounding tube integrated amps made, IMO. Smooth, refined detailed sound that would get the bes... | |
| Solid state "backup" amp recommendation Hi Semi - in reading of your system configuration and what you want the new amplifier for, I would certainly add the NuForce Ref 8B ( for balanced) monoblocks @ $1600/pair. These light-weight wonders are analog switching amps and are very chameleo... | |
| Any advice on a pre-amp with HT pass-through? You should also consider the Rogue Audio 99Magnum, which can have the HT pass-thru set up on it. GREAT sounding tube pre-amp! |