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| Naim Dac or power supply? I suppose I could talk myself out of it and tell myself it won't be that much better, or I could talk myself into thinking it will be that much better.Easy to do either,what's hard is to talk yourself into thinking it's better after you buy it if ... | |
| Naim Dac or power supply? Well faith does have a lot to do with it, but real hands on experiences hold more water for me.People can speculate about things that can or can't work, I've had my share of those battles, so they're not news to me.But I do have more "faith" in th... | |
| Naim Dac or power supply? Thanks to all who responded.I am more inclined now to go for the XPS or similar UPS.When it comes to making an improvement to the already good sounding CDX2-2,the Naim XPS is a bit pricey and hard to swallow.Is the power stage in the CDX2-2 really... | |
| The Hub: Acoustat X: 'stats with tubes! Yes Ian used to mod them and he modded the CJ pre-amps at the time to match up with the X's.I've wanted a pair of these ever since way back when my friends went to Ian's for the mods in the 80's.Dan Santoni,DTS Audio does a fantastic mod to the se... | |
| If $ was no object what speaker would you buy? Mid 1970's,OTL tube driven electrostat, full range,no need for sub woofer or cones to augment the bass.When new, $1995.00, Acoustat X.The future was here and then it was gone. | |
| If $ was no object what speaker would you buy? Yes there are some fine examples of the Acoustat X out there.I have just purchased said speaker.I've owned and enjoyed Quad 63, Stacked quad 57,ML CLS,old Tannoys, Mirage M3 si,and my first pair of stats were Acoustat Model 3, but with no tube ser... | |
| The Hub: Acoustat X: 'stats with tubes! To the initial poster, I beleive I have the cottage pair from the pictures.They sure do clean up well. | |
| The Hub: Acoustat X: 'stats with tubes! Well I got lucky and purchased a very nicely refurbished pair of three panel X monitors, yesterday, two days before my birthday.Happy birthday to me.The amps were tweaked by Dan the Man of DTS, and the results are very good.The cabinets were refin... | |
| Does anyone use a different cable for the neg run? Thanks Almarg, I'll switch the cables around and give it a go.I had contemplated using longer runs of my Romex return wires and running them directly to my panels ground wire, not hard to do as my panel is in my listening room.This way all grunge ... | |
| Does anyone use a different cable for the neg run? I have to restate the fact that I've tried different neg return runs,one was a Goertz type flat pair of speaker wires and the sound was inferior to the 2 runs of solid core 12 guage romex.So in my real world what is used for the return does matter... | |
| Does anyone use a different cable for the neg run? So the wire configuration is called double bi-wire?At one time it was shot gun.Anyway I've also experimented with one single 12 guage romex return run,with the one wire running thru both neg speaker posts, and it wasn't as good as two separate run... | |
| No, You Cannot Bi-Amp A long time ago I had new Mirage M3si speakers which could be biamped.So I did what anyother audiophile would do, I tried biamping.I bought two Brytson 4B amps.I tried them every which way, and then even as mono blocks.No magic solution.Perhaps it... | |
| Dragging out a great old dinosaur I bought an old Bell tube integrated, made in 1961, with the original RCA and Telefunken tubes.From what I see,it's never seen a repair or had any parts replaced.It's put many a more expensive tubed amp to shame, and it's my reality check amp.When... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? I wonder if the people who can't hear improvements, be it power cords, fuses, wires etc,really take the effort to really listen and evaluate the sound of their systems?I'll bet they are passive listeners, sometimes called music lovers, but aren't ... | |
| Upgrading Fuses Nobody sways or converts?That's not correct.Anyone who switched out a cheap stock fuse for an upgraded one will never switch back to the way it was.So they've been converted.There's no going back for us,whereas some folks aren't wiling to go forwa... |