khrys

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Most achingly-beautiful music
4th movement(adagietto) from Mahler's 5th; Barber's Adagio for strings(if you really want to ache); Ralph Vaughn Williams' Mass in G minor. The Faure Requiem . 
Heard Vandersteen Model 5's?
I recently sold a more expensive pair of speakers and subwoofer for the 5's. I auditioned many speakers and the 5's outperformed all of them regardless of price. I never realized how inarticulate the bass is in most speakers until I heard the 5's ... 
HELP ME add tube amp to my HomeTheatre
Sacre bleu! Zut alors! Love your handle. I recently faced the same problem you posit: adding video to a good music system or getting HT to play really good music. My solution was to use mono tube amps for the right and left channels for 2 channel ... 
Audio Physic Virgo Solid State Amps ?
I used to own Virgos powered by vt100 mkI with Terra subwoofer. With the Terra they sounded better with vt100 mkI than mkII! By themselves they sounded best with BEL (Brown Electronic Labs) 1001 MkVs. These amps are hand tuned solid state pure cla... 
Cardas Golden Cros vs. Cardas Golden Ref
Lkern...To my ears the Golden Reference is somewhat more dynamic, equal in cutting RF, but ultimately substantially more musical; and it is not due simply to the addition of more treble. The depth and detail of the soundstage draws you into the mu... 
Cardas Golden Cros vs. Cardas Golden Ref
I have been a long time user of Cardas cables and I completely agree with Et's post. I used Golden Cross for many years but began to feel that it was somewhat too forgiving and "slow". I took the plunge and tried Nordost Quattro-Fil and SPM ref bu...