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| Pros/Cons of Same Length Speaker Cables? I must qualify above post by saying it all applies if you have good equipment and cables......if we are talking about Monster Cables and generic receiver then that is another story and you will probably notice no difference.... | |
| Power Cord Advice Rick next time you see used Harmonic Tech Pro-AC11 power cord here for $125, buy one and use on CD player first, because it is the most sensitive to change of cord it will show biggest improvement, of course it must have removeable cord. Pre-amp a... | |
| Pros/Cons of Same Length Speaker Cables? Absolutely cables should be same length, would you drive your car with different size tires? Cable designers spend much time with cable conductor design,winding to preserve time allignment of music signal! I must disagree with Hiwaves....the short... | |
| Help with a budget second system I assume you mean $2000 new retail price, here goes.....CD player, Rotel RCD 951 $500....Integrated Amp, Roksan Kandy $800....Speakers, B&W DM602 $500....Analysis Plus Oval 12 speaker cable 8ft pair $150....Interconnect, Harmonic Tech Precisio... | |
| Bi-amping versus Mono-blocks Willi, I have experimented in this area, let me first say I am not an expert, but just a curious audiophile. I own 2 Musical Fidelity X-AS100 amps, 100w each, they have mono/stereo switch and input/output RCA connectors, this alllows for very flex... | |
| Classical Audiophiles Rejoice! Albert have you heard the story that when Phillips NV was deciding what size to make Cds, Karajan told them it should be big enough to hold entire performance of beethoven 9th uninterrupted, so that is how they came up with current size disc......... | |
| Classical Audiophiles Rejoice! Guys, although you are correct RCA vinyl from late 50s, especially Reiner/Chicago, is fabulous, I was refering to RCA "living Stereo" CD remasters from that period which are also mainly Reiner/Chicago and some sound as good as any classical CD orc... | |
| Cables, Interconnects and More Cables??? Casey, you hurt Rocks feelings by not buying Radio Shack cable, didn't you accept the RS challenge, hehehe..... | |
| Super Audio CD The good news is SACD is superior sounding tech, however, several problems for SACD so far, recording industry slow to adopt...this is where fear of betamax comes back. Also the few SACDs on the market are very expensive compared to CD, this will ... | |
| SPEAKERS FOR MY NEW LISTENING ROOM Ej, of course professional dampening material is best, tube traps, sonex foam panels etc.....but there are design considerations in someones living room, for visual appeal. Any tall irregular 3D object placed in the corners behind speakers will br... | |
| Classical Audiophiles Rejoice! Sugarbrie, I have a couple DG "originals" that I feel may be exaggerated as you say, but I don't feel it applies to entire series, must be judged case by case.....but the other lines DECCA "Legends", EMI "Recordings of the Century" and RCA "Living... | |
| SPEAKERS FOR MY NEW LISTENING ROOM PSB Gold-i speakers can be bought new on internet for @$2000 and offer unbeatable value/performance ratio. Of course there are other great speakers in the $2-4000 new range...Hales Revalation 3, Dynaudio Contour 3, Vandersteen Signature 3 etc, etc... | |
| Cables, Interconnects and More Cables??? Rock, out of curiousity, what other cables have you directly compared to RS megacable? This would give us some perspective of where you are coming from, also do you work for Radio Shack, hehehe.....regards Sam | |
| My Only Question Is......... Pet, no one will argue that CDP direct to amp is best possible for pure sound quality. However this "spartan" set-up limits flexibility for recording devices,tuner, or any future format that is not playable on CDP...... this is real consideration ... | |
| Cables, Interconnects and More Cables??? I do in fact keep a $40 pair of Straightwire Chorus cables to help evaluate new cables, and isolate differences that occur compared to higher priced models. I can EASILY hear the difference between say HT Truthlink $250 and Chorus $40, MUCH more d... |