mcbuddah
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| One of the best HDMI cable? I faced the same questions about 5 years ago when I tried a Mapleshade ViviLink cable for about $165. I had a couple of PS-Audio's I2s all-silver HDMI cables that retailed for around $1k/meter and it was no contest. I recently moved and needed t... | |
| Another soundstage question tomic601:Impossible to say! I made so many changes to my system during the year before I got them sorted out that no comparison to the Snells can be made. I went from a hodge-podge of racking to a new Steve Blinn Super-wide rack that I modified... | |
| Another soundstage question I got a bit fanatical about speaker placement geometry a couple of years ago after purchase of a pair of gently used Genesis 6.1s. These speakers are capable of sounding sublime with proper placement and associated gear but can sound horrible whe... | |
| Shotgun with different cables I have a set of Ridge Street Audio Poeima ii silver ribbon speaker cables that I use with my Snell B-Types. The bass cable is substantially more robust than the one I use for the highs. They also sounded great with my Genesis 6.1s that are not de... | |
| Best Song or AlbumTitles? "NewSkin for the Old Ceremony" by Leonard Cohen | |
| Review: The Sid Sound Improvement Disc 14 Tweak +1 on Herbie's CD mat but OPPO owners Beware! I originally bought it for my OPPO 95 but it frequently caused TOC read errors on some discs and eventually came loose inside the loader, requiring factory service to clear. I put it in a drawer for ... | |
| New Forum Format Sucks I worked in the IT department in a big manufacturing company before retirement. I am a veteran of scores of software update rollouts and I can't remember any that didn't have chorus of 'Boo Birds' to lead the charge backwards to wallow forever in... | |
| Cudos to Brent Jesse Brent Jesse is the man! I needed a quad of tubes within .5 db of each other for my Thor 3000 phono stage. This was my first replacement since the preamp was new and the manufacturer is out of business. He found me some really nice NOS tubes that j... | |
| sudont I bought a new Steve Blinn super-wide rack in May and I still get a charge out of how beautiful it is finished - both the wood shelves that fairly glow and the extruded frame as well. I keep it dusted with a Billy Bragg Brush that costs about $35 ... | |
| Audio Rack Opinions I reconfigured my HT & 2-channel systems early this summer and gave up the built-in hutch to the TV and bought a new super-wide rack from Steve Blinn for the stereo gear, including a VPI SSM Reference that needs to stay on its own 27" x 20" x4... | |
| Azimuth question +1 for the Foz. The calibration procedure takes about 2 minutes - most of that reading the directions. No more complicated than biasing your tubes. I still check mine out every few months when rechecking the turntable geometry, but it has not chan... | |
| Genesis V & Servo Amp Gary Koh is the go to guy at Genesis. I don't know if he pops in here much but he holds court holds court at What's Best where he helps people with technical questions and straight talk about how to best keep their Genesis gear on song. Here is a ... | |
| VPI setup The Mapleshade scale is all of those things BUT.. it is also poorly made. The step-tray attached to the original pan was held in place by a 1/4" wide squiggle of hot glue. It was never parallel to the pan and it continued to angle down and change ... | |
| best value current production tonearm Bpoletti, I would never again run an air bearing arm on a suspended table. If I had to use a TNT, I would get rid of the 4-corner suspension and install some different footers in their place. There are a lot of good candidates on the used market. ... | |
| best value current production tonearm Thanks for the info about the arm customization. I can measure the depth pretty closely with an old dial calipers. don't know the machining dimensions under the arm board as I bought the table used with the JMW 10.5i base securely mounted. It's a ... |