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| Best Cables for ARC gear People who have Audio Research cables tend to keep them. But they do show up on Audiogon and Ebay occasionally. Don't be fool by the fake ones on Ebay sold out of Canada. The real ARC Litz II cables are a thick cable covered in light gray rubber.... | |
| Best Cables for ARC gear I have a similar system. ARC Ref CD7, LS25 mk2 and Ref 110 amp. I have also owned a VT100 mk3 and CD3 in the past. I use Audio Research Litzlink II Balanced Interconnects between my LS25 mk2 and Ref 110 and a double run of Audio Research Litzline... | |
| ARC Ref-300 or 600 or 210: Which sounds best ? In the mid 1990's Audio Research was trying to go more mainstream. To that end they designed their gear for a lower price point. The big black boxes. I remember that the United Audio by me was carrying their equipment for a while. I have heard t... | |
| ARC Ref-300 or 600 or 210: Which sounds best ? Do you need the extra power of the Ref 600? That is a lot of tubes and a lot of heat. If not I would tend more toward the Ref 300 or 210 amps. I have not heard the Ref 300s in a while and never side by side with the Ref 210s. I have listened to th... | |
| Advice: CD's to Hard Drive and Back Again Timrhu, just for fun, take a couple of the discs folders of AIFF files and convert them to flac. Then compare them to the Accurip database. I don't know if there is a program for the Mac that will do this. There are a number of free programs such... | |
| Advice: CD's to Hard Drive and Back Again "I've found that CD's are neither indestructable nor unscratchable" This can not be! In 1982 when Phillips and Sony introduced the Compact disc they promised it would bring you perfect sound forever! | |
| Advice: CD's to Hard Drive and Back Again Maybe I am making it sound overly complicated. It is really not. Nero or Roxio will not give you an accurate rip. There are other programs that will give you an accurate rip but EAC is probably the most popular. There is a database of signatures f... | |
| Advice: CD's to Hard Drive and Back Again Use EAC in test and copy mode and create a cue file. Check the log to make sure there were no errors and to see if the tracks match the Accurip database. If the rip matches the Accurip database then you know it is bit perfect. I always make an sf... | |
| power tube rating The 6550 tubes seem to be correct for your amp. Was the bias set properly when the tubes were installed? How often did you check the tube bias? The bias can drift as tubes age. If the bias is not set properly the tubes can be run much harder than ... | |
| If I like ARC, okay with CJ, and run for SF.... If you really like the sound of ARC, why not look for something from ARC? You know what type of sound to expect. But before I buy anything I would still want to hear it in my system. There are differences in the sound even from units by the same ... | |
| tube amp help I run SED winged "C" tubes in my Ref 110. That is the 6550 tube that Audio Research recommends for all their amps. These tubes don't need to be run at that low a bias. And a bias that low will adversely affect the sound quality of the amp. I run ... | |
| tube amp help My guess is that tube 7 is bad. If you live near some place where you can have all the tubes tested, I would do that just to make sure there are no other problematic tubes. I would also read the part about tube bias in the manual. I have never ow... | |
| mostly Audio Research now i need digital help? ? ? I have a Ref CD7 and it is an excellent CD player. If it were me I would buy a CD7 and sell the DAC. Make sure it has the power supply upgrade. The CD3 mk2 is a nice player but not in the same league as the CD7. The problem with the CDT, CD1, or C... | |
| Room acoustics how ? My image is not centered I had a similar problem. My room is approx 13'x24' with 9 foot ceilings. My speakers are on one of the short walls. I have windows across one of the long sides of my room. The other long wall is drywall. I bought bookcases with glass doors for th... | |
| FLAC encoding questions I use Exact Audio Copy to rip lossless flac files. EAC will make bit perfect copies with a cue sheet and log. It uses the accurip database to verify your rip is perfect. The cue file is used to burn the files to a CDR. EAC is a free program. Why m... |