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| The BEST Audiophile System under $5k... Adcom 750 CDP $1250 (Musical Fidelity A3CD $1000) (Class A) Musical Fidelity $1500 A300 150w Integ. PSB Silver-i $1300 speakers Silver Audio 1m $250 Hyacinth Harmonic Tech $450 x 2 Pro 11 double runs Monster HTS 2000 $125 - (globe-mart) line condi... | |
| Best female vocals on CD If you have only one opera CD, get the new remastered Joan Sutherland "Art of the Prima Donna" a career anthology with absolutely astonishing vocal range........it is hard to imagine any modern singer equal this definitve collection! Joni Mitchell... | |
| Best female vocals on CD Sade, super sultry carribean soul, start with greatest hits but any album is great. Cranberries 1st two albums are beautiful. Everyone should have one Loreena McKinnet, try "The Visit" or "Mask & Mirror". Enya "Paint the sky with Stars" is bea... | |
| Integrateds, for $1000.00 Musical Fidelity A3 my first choice. Dual mono design, 85w which sounds even more powerful, full function remote, beautiful styling, solid reliability, Audio Advisor $995 price new. Sound quality is mind boggling for integrated amp. Other choices ... | |
| MY Sidewinder AC cord progress: Carl out of curiosity how many AC cords do you keep in your home collection. I have known the dilema you are describing with different trade-offs, and personally have 3 sets of interconnects, 2 sets of speaker cables etc.....this is expensive habi... | |
| CD Player Carl & Mike resolution audio CD50 looks like good player, product is now almost 3 yrs old has it been upgraded and how do you know if you have upgraded version? has RA announced a new design yet? Soundstage has good review | |
| Best Integrated Amp $1-2k range Musical Fidelity A300, $1495 for dual mono 150w with remote control. Sam Tellig gave rave review in Stereophile couple months ago, MF really turning out great sound for maximum value........MF is for real, Nu-Vista amp is class A rated, very relia... | |
| Auric Illuminator, Optrix, others Some more detailed info about my comparisons. Using duplicate Cds, when testing Optrix I heard no significant difference in sound when compared to untreated CD, so if you use Optrix you will have clean CD but I hear no real difference. Auric Illum... | |
| MY Sidewinder AC cord progress: Carl you've been busy, we need a scorecard to keep track of all the combinations, but very good post. As you know I have Powersnakes Sidewinder on my Musical Fidelity X-Ray CD player and was very pleased with improved sound. It is interesting how ... | |
| Auric Illuminator, Optrix, others Red, all good points you make. My collection of CD enhancers is not a total loss though. I will use "auric illuminator" on any CDs I have which have a very bright recording (usually a rock/alternative recording ) and here the "smoothing" effect is... | |
| Upgrade blues Many dealers have loaners you can evaluate at home in your system so you know what you are getting and how it sounds with your other equipment. Also some internet dealers have 30 day return policies like Audio Advisor. And finally never sell your ... | |
| Monster Power AV-800 any good? In a word, no. Don't use this for your audio system. For slightly more money get Monster HTS 2000, avaliable from www.globe-mart.com for $125, got rave reviews from Absolute Sound July 1999 issue, reviewer said nothing he has ever tried improved h... | |
| MY Sidewinder AC cord progress: Carl, very informative post. To give us more perspective what are the retail prices of some other cables you are comparing Powersnakes Sidewinder to? synergistic master coupler, magnan signature, esp powerflow, and I believe you mentioned Proteus ... | |
| Discsolution, anyone tried Ejlif, thanks for info. I am very hesitant to put enhancers on CDs because of various fads in the industry. In the late 1980s they had these self adhesive thin plastic rings that you applied to label side to "stablize" disc during rotation, and of... | |
| Discsolution, anyone tried Ejlif please describe improvements you hear with this product and how do you apply it, I assume this is for CDs. Does this just clean or do something else magical? I think I will test "auric illuminator" on a couple discs, it is two step process r... |