kalan
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| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit Does the 47 Labs, Gaincard amp really HAVE to be used with their own OTA wire or similarly thin wire? A 47 Labs dealer once told me that the need for small gauge cabling is over stated in reviews and such. I tried a fully broken in (according to d... | |
| VPI Aries vs. VPI TNT III I know someone who had his TNT 3 upgraded to a TNT 5. He never mentions any adjustment problems. I will ask him specifically about the need to re-adjust next time I see him.I had the Well Tempered (Classic) arm on a SOTA Sapphire a while back. A c... | |
| VPI Aries vs. VPI TNT III MY TNT 3.5 (SME V arm) has never gone out of adjustment once I have set it. I have checked it at several month intervals over four years of use. Not once did I need to re-level the TNT or readjust the SME. Weird that my experience is so different ... | |
| VPI owners--recommended upgrade Has anyone else heard that BDR clamps don't work with the TNT 5? I recall some BDR TNT clamps being sold on AG because they don't fit on the TNT 5 platter spindles correctly. | |
| VPI owners--recommended upgrade The VPI power conditioner (SDS) does wonders for the TNT 3.5. Going from an older PLC to a newer PLC improved the sound, but going from a newer PLC to an SDS made the performance jump much higher still. The motor has two belts and a pulley assembl... | |
| Audible Illusions M3A update AI will adjust the gain between notches if you request it. I mentioned the course (too large) differences between volume notches--at the lower volume end--to Art Ferris in a letter when I first got my 3A just to find out if there were alternative ... | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music I have to concur with those who submitted Barber's Adagio for Strings. It sort of troubles me that this music was introduced to many people in popular culture in the sad, sad settings used in the movies The Elephant Man and Platoon. I grew up list... | |
| Who 'won' the show at CES OK, I will chime in with last year's winner (CES-2000) 'cause I couldn't go this year: mbl (I run tubes myself.)The complete mbl system (Harmonic technology cabling through out) had the most kinesthetic, tangible, emotionally involving sound I hav... | |
| Coincident Super Eclipse and amp power Thank you, everyone, for your feed back.I have heard the Super E's with the Atma-Sphere M-60's and liked them, but much preferred the MA-1 MkII's. (I heard he M-60's in my system and lived with the MA-1's for about three weeks.) Even the MA-1's ha... | |
| Coincident users.Share your impressions. I use both the Super Eclipse speakers and the CST I interconnects. The Supers replaced some Chapman, T-7 speakers; and the CST cables are replacing some Harmonic Tech, Truth Link interconnects.I did not do extensive in-system speaker trials agains... | |
| Tube Amps for Coincident Super Eclipse Atma-Sphere MA-1's are fabulous with the Super Eclipses. They're way more money than you mentioned as your budget--even used. But, hey, I thought I'd mention them anyway. To me the 'Super E's' sound better with much more power than lots of folks t... | |
| Coincident Total Eclipse/Avalon Radian Side-firing woofers CAN require getting used to if you're not familliar with working with them.(My statemet repeated from another Coincident thread):__________Placement: Because they have side-firing double woofers that are not on a straight line ... | |
| Opinion needed-Coincident Super Eclipse Super Eclipses are very good speakers: dynamic, good frequency extension, coherent from bottom to the top, and not bad looking, either. Caveats: They require carefully chosen- room placement, cabling, and upstream electronics--as others have menti... | |
| Coincident PC long break in? I also found the Coincident interconnects (CST I) takes the same 500-600 hours of break-in time that many folks report. I thought there was nothing special about the CST I IC's until about 300 hours. Not until 600 hours was I truly impressed. Just... | |
| Music Metre Fidelus digital cable I have been using Music Metre Fidelus for about 4 years. I listened to a couple of other digital cables in my system around the time I decided to go with the MM, Fidelus. Sorry, I don't remember what other digital cable I auditioned. All I do reme... |