loftarasa
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| Your most disappointing purchase or audition? I'm going to stick the boot into Musical Fidelity as well. Gave up on them years ago.Starting with auditioning the X-Ray gear then more of their subsequent overpriced, overhyped designs with cheap components and big-cases designs. To me, the MF so... | |
| Audio Sensibility vs. Signal Cable speaker cable I've not got experience of their speaker cables, but I've dealt with Steve at Audio Sensibility for a few items - including a return from the USA - great service, good products, no hassle with billing or shipping or refund. I do use OCC cables thr... | |
| Kimber 8TC beater? Oh blimey, these speakers are 3 ways for tri-wiring. What a pain.I'd go for the biwire option + pair of jumpers.You could also phone/email Gene at TakeFive for any other advice. | |
| Kimber 8TC beater? IME, cryo generally makes treble smoother and bass deeper :)The best (and most expensive) speaker cable I ever owned was a British one called Townshend Isolda. It is luscious sounding, with massive soundstaging and very deeeeeep bass. I learned so... | |
| Is computer audio a bust? Interesting question and a good sample of perspectives supplied so far.My take is: it's still too far away from easy adoption when considering cost, technical complexity (either to set up or in terms of ease of use), and performance. It's more lik... | |
| Kimber 8TC beater? Interesting. Vivid imaging but clean/lean sound - 8TCSolid imaging, balanced, weighted sound - 3104You could get both then sell on the one you don't like.At least you'll know! :) | |
| Kimber 8TC beater? Not quite identical, HDM. 3104 is four conductor, so one can shotgun each plus/minus per channel to lower resistance, etc. | |
| Kimber 8TC beater? Almarg's post is brilliant. I really enjoyed reading more engineering science on cables, but more pointedly, yeah I didn't know much about these Hyperion amps, and tube rolling would seem an obvious thing to consider, too.I've heard the Resolution... | |
| Kimber 8TC beater? Pc123v - yes, I have/had both 3104 and Ply at the same time. Ply is nice. But too soft and polite.3104 gives a bigger sound and is more detailed. It's still very neutral, though - no frequency band is hyped or muted. This makes for better long-ter... | |
| Kimber 8TC beater? As said, speaker cables are system dependent and subjective. Best thing to do is buy used or use the Cable Company lending library, or just take a punt.My ATC amp and speakers are extremely neutral (not bright, not warm) and I'm very sensitive to ... | |
| Audience THE ONE on Desktop Need amp Whoah, no offence, but I heard uber-expensive Parasound amps driving KEF flagships in Newport last year and thought it was absolutely unlistenable! Shrieky, bright, fatiguing, horrible! Like a match made in Hell.If I was doing a desktop system (an... | |
| Adding Bel Canto REFLink to C7R? I think it would be of dubious value. Looking at the C7R, apart from USB, it's only got Toslink (forget it) and RCA coaxial (not ideal). If you did want to still use a USB-S/PDIF converter, then maybe look at the other two cheaper ones from Bel Ca... | |
| Rotel RDD-1580 DAC? It's had some decent reviews. Haven't heard any of them but might add these to your list to research:Resonessence Concero, Audiolab MDAC, iFi iDAC | |
| Kimber 8TC beater? I've listened to a lot of speaker cables at the 8TC price range. I'm going to say there aren't in fact many that beat the 8TC for imaging, but there are several that are weightier/fuller sounding. I had to go up to the Audience AU24E to get that i... | |
| Audiophile Active Speakers? Bob, it's the same guy, Brad Lunde. He's the US distributor for Pro (Las Vegas Pro Audio) and Consumer (Lonemountain) |