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| The best speaker cables you’ve had Audio Note Sogon (2 meters) is what I own. It is among the best I’ve heard. I have also heard great performance from NBS Black Label wires. | |
| Spade vs. banana plug Here is an audiophile test question: Some binding posts are described as 5-way binding posts. What are the five ways to connect speaker wire that are being accommodated by these types of binding posts? | |
| Songs with excellent advice? Not a song, but an album title that seems to fit the current mood about those of different political persuasion for one’s own: Metallica— “Kill ‘Em All”. | |
| odd question about stand-mount speakers Johnk, I agree with you; most likely it would not adversely affect the sound. I was merely raising a theoretical consequence of locating the woofer differently. | |
| odd question about stand-mount speakers You can safely try the speaker in the inverted setup to see if it sounds good that way. If the speaker was designed to be used with the woofer below, even if you maintain the same tweeter height and axis, the sound will be different because the d... | |
| Tonearms without anti-skate, damage to records? Yes, "not cheap" is an understatement. I went to an audio show where a representative was in the market area of the show and had the 5T arm (mostly used record dealers and headphone sellers are in this area). He told me that he could sell me the... | |
| Tonearms without anti-skate, damage to records? Anti-skating, however imperfect, is better than not applying some compensating force. Just ask the people who manufacture cartridges and who have studied wear of records and styli (like the folks at SoundSmith). Arms that maintain tangency of t... | |
| Best Floorstanding Speakers Buyers Guide 2023 ! I heard various Acora speakers at the last Capital Audiofest (Washington DC area). While not the greatest things I've ever heard, they were quite good, particularly because they were not crazy expensive. | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) One of the big challenges in designing the speaker was to have a 10” woofer respond high enough for the 1.6 khz crossover point (the speaker must have a bandwidth much higher than this point even with a 12 db/octave slope). That makes it quite im... | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) With most of the research cost already sunk in the Source 10, a smaller and cheaper version is something that makes sense. I've seen and heard the Source 10 (pretty nice sounding speaker), and while I liked how it looked, it struck me as being a ... | |
| XLO electric cable company : Anybody home ?! I liked their stuff too. I still use a pair of XLO limited interconnects that are nearing 20 yrs old. It was truly a limited cable in that a company that they ordered a key component from would only make one batch and that was it. | |
| Considering A 20-40 Watt Stereo SET Amp I like the el84 tube and it is often used in pretty nice sounding low-cost amps. It is an indirectly heated pentode tube, but, the tube type does not determine anything particular about its sound. | |
| Considering A 20-40 Watt Stereo SET Amp I own a parallel SET and two pushpull amps. My favorite is a flea-powered pushpull that runs the 349 output tube. The best tube amp I've heard is a custom-built output transformerless amp followed by a pushpull amp running the extremely rare 252... | |
| Tube tester? Good advice from oddiofyl about warming up the tube sufficiently in the tester. I recommended the Orange tester as a reasonably-priced modern alternative, but, someone who uses it at a dealership told me that it does not operate at high power and... | |
| Harbeth 30.2 or Falcon Gold Badge In the same size range as the Falcon, I also like the ProAc Tablette. Played at reasonable volume levels this is a warm, rich, yet still nimble sounding speaker; like the other speakers mentioned, with sort of faked bass, but still very musically... |