kana813
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| Jazz Recommendations One of the best sources for building a jazz collectionis the Concord Records catalog. Great artists, great sounding recordings and great deals. | |
| What is the best tweak? Dweller- My home is 15 years old, and this year was the first time I cleaned the grounding contacts. I guess it depends on where you live and the water/salt content in the air. I treated contact area with Caig R5 Power Booster(try some of this on ... | |
| What is the best tweak? Dweller- you should also use you cleaning treatment on the main ground connection to your home. Clean and polish the ground wire, clamp and ground rod.I use a high speed 3M buffing wheel mounted on a bench grinder to deal with AC connectors and sp... | |
| Benchmark DAC1 auditions out there? Nice sounding DAC with excellent contruction quality and a great headphone amp. Pro style hardware, made to complement close-in listening via studio monitors. I prefer my ten year old modifed Cal Sigma tube DAC for listening to music in my home au... | |
| Quad 988/989 Reliability Mbonn- Thanks for the input. The Innersounds are on my listof speakers to seek out and hear while I'm on the mainland in 01/04. | |
| Which is more important? Your biggest problem is the ever changing listening room.Suggest you look for a Tact 2.0 room correction system. It will allow you to get the most out of bothyour system and the listening space our tax dollars have provide for you.PS- Thanks for s... | |
| Best Digital Amps Muralman1- "I use my hearing to compare the two." You must have remarkable hearing to filter out/factor in the combined effect of a diferent preamp,dac,and different sytems(no dealer I'm aware handles the all these digital amps and eAR has no deal... | |
| Guilty Pleasures After a couple of bowls of kava, everything sounds good,but I have a hard time walking across the room to change the disk. | |
| Telarc recording quality Rcprince- mahalo for answering my question.The low output levels can be heard on Michel Camilo's Live at the Blue Note. Excellent music, but I needto turn it up at least 6 dbs higher than other live jazz recordings. If you have the SACD, I'd be in... | |
| Best Digital Amps Muralman1 -"The ICE module has greater potential than the TacT and TRI Path modules" What potential?And how do you compare the Tact which needs no premap ordac to the eAR which needs both? | |
| Telarc recording quality Zenaissance-"not too impressed either with the DSD technology." Could be there's a problem going from DSD to PCM. Maybe one of the EMM Labs owners could comment on the CD versionverses the SACD of the same Telarc release.I notice that output level... | |
| Best Digital Amps I also heard the Acoustic Reality EAR II amp was about to receive a good review. I can't see how StereoTimescould give it more of a "rave review," then they already gave the MII and Tact 2150, but hey, that was last month.I've heard the MII and Ta... | |
| Harbeth 40 speakers Paullb- thanks for the info. I'll try and learn to readthe posts. Enjoy your V5As. | |
| Its all in the DAC? I have a 45A, even stock it never sounded "grainy," but itdid improve with some better parts in the power supply,replacement of the cheap coupling caps, IEC connector fora better PC, damping and decent ICs. Others(on the yahoo tact users group) re... | |
| Harbeth 40 speakers Paullb- how big a room are your M40s in, and whattype of stands you're using?Thanks for the smartgroups.com info. |