midareff1
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| Older And Wiser or just Tighter and Deafer? I'm a bit older than you and would not consider adding (as in buying) any component of reasonable or greater cost that I could not audition in my system. | |
| When Did Your System Disappear? My system disappeared about two decades ago. The walls, floor, ceiling went away and I had a sound stage with instrumental and performer appearances on a giant stage that depending on recording was somewhere in the first 10 rows or so. After that ... | |
| OMG, just removed my speaker grills and the sound just opened up to a new level! My Acoustat electrostatics went nude 15 years ago. It was one less cloud on the window. | |
| Do any still use an older high end tuner from the past?.... I have and still use a Sansui TU-9900 that has been modded to the max by Mike at Radio X. It ran many CD players out of my listening room and I doubt I will ever take it from the system but more of my listening these days is by Cambridge CXN (V2)... | |
| Streaming Using a Cambridge CXN (V2) here on wifi... Wasn't too crazy about it right out of the box with some god awful 25 year old ICs I had but upgraded the power cord and added some audiophile grade ICs and burned it in for a month and it's near enough... | |
| what's your opinion on the magazine 'stereo review'?? I gave up on Stereo Review many years ago when it became too obvious they never met or tried an advertiser's product they didn't like and/or recommend. Stereophile magazine seems to have gradually moved out of any possible meaningful range for me... | |
| Fairly new to streaming. Where to start? Recently added a Cambridge CXN (V2) streamer to my system. It's not quite my Sony XA 5400 ES CD player but it's close and the Sony is running balanced and Cambridge single ended. Good power cord and interconnects are required and it needs to bur... | |
| Synergistic Research Cable Risers? I found that elevating cables can make a difference in sound. $10 each, $20 each, $54 each... duh, definitely a product for those willing to hear a difference. After exhaustive research I found that inverted York-site Memorial Candle holders (... | |
| Stereo Receivers from the past... Had a Marantz 2270 and added the Quad adapter with the built in amps.. SQ-2 was the decoder module as I recall.. all powering 4 Fisher XP7 speakers, super heavy sand ballast jobs with 12" woofers and dual mid-range and tweeters .. 4 way I think... | |
| Disappointing On Mcintosh......help I listened to a Mc system driving Maggies, two systems actually at the local Hi-Fi place and they both sounded like music through mud. I'll stay with my 25 year old Acoustats, ARC Pre and Sumo amps. | |
| Streamers - Cambridge Audio CXN (V2) or Blue Node 2i I'm using WiFi. Makes no difference I can hear if wife is on computer talking to family overseas on wifi and TV is using wifi connection simultaneously for Netflix and/or Prime. Modem is in another room without a practical way to use a wired et... | |
| Streamers - Cambridge Audio CXN (V2) or Blue Node 2i OP here..... put about 600 hours on the unit and it's a different animal now. Changed out the power cord and a lev el 3 set of Straightwire Interconnects and it's REALLY great listening now. Have 20 high resolution stations tagged combined be... | |
| Fear of Streaming I hear you although I am a CD album listener when FM got too tedious or boring. Having said that there are a couple of OK radio stations here worth a listen, only until you know better. After a few months (maybe years) of deliberation I decided... | |
| Recommendations for high quality Streaming Audio: Cambridge CXN (V2) in the house about 6 or 7 weeks now. Set up was easy, app is OK, not great..... First listen was too tilted up and digital so went with an Audioquest power cord and some real good interconnects. Let it burn in for a month (r... | |
| Are you buying the right interconnects ? My story is a bit like kymanor1 except with a different cable manufacturer. The system I have now started, for the most part, in 1991 - 1992 with the amps, pre-amp and speakers remaining the same . I too tried many cables from lending libraries, ... |