kijanki
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| The Best Cable?? Hazard - I had AQ King Cobras XLR. It used to be called Python before AQ moved production to China and renamed cables lowering prices to stay competitive. King Cobras are pretty good with natural/balanced sound (more refined than Diamondbacks). I ... | |
| Want to Blow Up My Stereo Aggielaw - You mentioned swapping speakers. Did you physically swapped speakers or just swapped amps channels. Did you do both? There is still chance that one amp's channel might be weaker. Could you play 1kHz test tone and measure it on the speak... | |
| SS bias pot tweaks? Csontos - I agree that bias might not be set to optimum on particular amp especially for the best channel match. If you can find sweet spot by listening - great. You might want to measure just to know where you are. It is voltage drop measurement ... | |
| SS bias pot tweaks? AFAIK bias should be set to particular value. I asume you expect better performance setting bias higher. Increasing bias most likely won't improve the sound (otherwise everybody would do that) and is called overbias. Bias is usually set around 50-... | |
| equating class A to class AB SS amps? I noticed now "Many thanks for all the helpful replies! Now I am less confused" Mark, I hope you don't feel more confused after my post (I tend to complicate things). | |
| equating class A to class AB SS amps? Mark - When you listen to 200W peaks your class AB amp really delivers to speakers on average only few percent of peak power. It is because music is not always at the peak and half as loud means 1/10 of power. In addition there are gaps (unless yo... | |
| Oversampling DAC Vs. Non Oversampling? Matt - "forward and aggressive" is an issue of system matching. Your Dali speakers would not like SS amp with bright DAC. My older Paradigm speakers were a little forward with class D amp and Benchmark DAC but new Hyperion 938 speakers sound laid ... | |
| Cable Costs Relative to System My friend bought Honda Civic and he just loves this car. He believes that there is no correlation at all between performance/quality and the price. I told him that quality difference between Rolls-Royce and his Honda Civic is pretty much the same ... | |
| Cable Costs Relative to System Mitch - Double Barrel is very good and it is step above Satori Shotgun (so I heard). Satori wires look like Teflon isolated strands + one wire consisting of strands of isolated (enamel) magnet wires. I was looking for Silver Reference II ICs (abou... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Dgarretson - I also like system a little on the warm side because too warm CDs are not as unbearable as too bright ones.There is also an issue of cost and compromise. My brother's modest system consisting of Marantz 6000KI, Nad and inexpensive Cab... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Oops - did I say I want neutral sound? I guess we're all searching for natural/balanced sound but it's definition is very personal. | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Dgarretson - You're obviously in a "warm" camp while I'm searching for neutral sound. It just happened that my new Hyperion HPS-938 speakers combine resolution and speed of electrostats with a definition and dynamics of dynamic/cone type of speake... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Vince, I'm sorry - I read it too quick. | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Tuned to warmth - that is your preference. I don't care for warmth (other than winter clothing here in Chicago). | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Vince, I hope you realize that what sounds neutral to you might sound too warm or too cold to somebody else. I don't question that one might perceive sound as neutral but it is just only personal subjective opinion.Dgarretson wrote - "There are ma... |