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home made speaker cable vs. the big boys
I made all my own power cables, interconnects, and speaker wire. It all cost me about $200 and destroyed my $5000 worth of MIT stuff. I use all solid core wire from home depot but use high quality ends. Yeah some people give me this snotty how can... 
Balanced to RCA Adapters
Hi Tom_nice. I looked for the article but could not find it in the archives. I'm glad that smaller wire worked better for you. But did you go from a bigger stranded to a smaller solid core? I do not use stranded at all. It's all solid core. I got ... 
Balanced to RCA Adapters
I'm using adapters right now on my Balanced audio technologies vk-200 amp. I have a passive preamp that doesn't have balanced ins or outs and I will never give up my passive for a powered preamp. DON'T BY CHEAP ADAPTERS. I have cheap ones and it s... 
Anyone with Spectral Experience?
The best system I have ever heard to date is the spectral, MIT, Avalon combination. It had an eerie resolving ability. The depth that that system could get from the music was amazing. It could even throw an image behind me and to the left and be p... 
Best Sony DVDplayer for music?
Well lets see. Sony's best DVD player is the 7700 and it sells for $1000 new and $600 used. Hmmm. I think you can figure out the rest. 
What's up w/silver, is it back in style?
I have always thought that silver looks much more elegant than the dreary black. I love that classe has made silver their "look" and kept it for many years. It's nice to see more brands going silver. 
How do VANDERSTEEN Signature 2ce's rate?
In the 6 years of listening to the vendersteen line of speakers on a myriad of different gear I have never ever been impressed by them. The imaging is horrid and they are overall very dull speakers. They gloss over the music way to much. I have th... 
MIT or MITH?
Look the profit margin on the parts alone has nothing to do with it at all. In MIT's case they have spent millions of dollars on research so they have to and can charge more because they own the patents to the great sound there wire puts out. With... 
Feelings on Napster?
CRAP. I can't log on to NAPSTER. Did they already get closed down or are they just BOGGED down by frantic teenagers trying to get every song they can uncertain of napsters FUTURE? Wahooooo. Glad I got that awsome METALLICA song NO LEAF CLOVER just... 
best pink floyd dark side cd
Hey take it easy MFSLGOLDCD. I have know idea what it's worth and I don't care. I found it used for $5 and all I know is I like the album and it sounds really good. I didn't even know it was gold until I got it home. That was about 4 years ago and... 
best pink floyd dark side cd
I bought a gold disc from MFSL for $5 that sounds superb. Very clean and smooth sounding. quite amazing without even considering it was recorded in 1973. 
Power cords at ridiculous prices?
Thanks for the tip ONHWY61. I guess I could even pretty it up after that by using some shrink wrap around the foil tape or at least some type of cover. Hmmm maybe some braided steel would look cool. 
Power Cord Advice
I was to eager so I made some time and finished making the other cord and put it on my dac. I like the sound better than my Z-cord 2. It's a little more natural sounding among other small improvements so I won't really have a loner cord to lend ou... 
Power Cord Advice
OK theres allot to respond to so here goes........ ALBERTPORTER: It's just your standard romex 10/2 with ground solid core copper house wire.......... Garfish: I got the hubble end from HOME BASE there about $12 (home depot doesn't sell any good e... 
Power Cord Advice
OK carl I will. Just as long as you have very good wire in your walls and a good outlet or the power will just bottleneck and not do any good. I'm putting together another one so you may have to burn it in. I'm leaving tomorrow for seattle so mayb...