mitch2
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| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? Good news for anyone getting ready to purchase an expensive amplifier!Since amplifiers are indistinguishable from each other, buyers will now have even more money to spend on expensive cables. This is obviously good news for expensive cable manuf... | |
| Bret D'Agostino passed away The company was named for his beloved English Bull Terrier.Deepest sympathies Dan and family on the loss of your son and brother.I heard a pair of Bret's monos at a dealer in Ann Arbor and they combined excellent control of the speakers with that ... | |
| Class D Technology Their literature says Class D ICE output stage and MOSFET input stage | |
| PS Audio BHK 300 mono VS Modwright KWA 150SE mono VS D'agostino Classic stereo I owned a DR25 years ago and sold it to fund a BAT VK500, which was different but not particularly an upgrade. I should have lived with the DR25 longer but was reading too many reviews and chasing the brass ring back then. | |
| Dumb question #643: should speaker cables last a lifetime? I have owned, built, and used a lot of cables. The only cables I have that have oxidized to any noticeable extent were old Monster stranded speaker cable covered in their clear, rubbery-feeling PVC casing. The interface between the wire and the... | |
| PS Audio BHK 300 mono VS Modwright KWA 150SE mono VS D'agostino Classic stereo I have no doubt the D'agostino Classic Stereo Amp sounds excellent. The Ken Kessler hi-fi news review compares the sound of the Classic Stereo favorably to (or, in the ballpark of) D'agostino's Momentum amp. I observed the lab report in the hi-... | |
| Class D Technology Guido,Thank you for the detailed answer to my question yesterday. One attribute you stated,Aliveness of "black" background... Also called the sound of the silence between the notes... Or the reproduction of ultra-low level information....reminds m... | |
| Dumb question #643: should speaker cables last a lifetime? Yes, they will last.....unless you start reading audio forums :-) | |
| Class D Technology Guido, in your posts you have indicated the Merrill Veritas are among the Class D amplifiers you enjoyed listening to and that do not display, "any displeasing high frequency artifacts or limitations." I owned the Acoustic Imagery Atsahs, which... | |
| Class D Technology All is good Noble100, I can certainly understand how folks like the Ncore amps so much since, in my system, they did a lot of things right (bass, tone, power, body and lack of noise). However, even with very good and highly regarded amplifiers... | |
| Class D Technology Absolutely, "musicality" is indeed subjective . I am not trying to convince anyone. My intention is to point out the inaccuracy of making broad generalizations about folks here who still like the sound of their Class A or AB amps better than the C... | |
| Class D Technology I'm concerned that comments like yours, and other posters earlier in this thread, may give readers the false impression that switching to class D involves some sacrifices in sound quality. Class D did exactly that at my house. I want to make i... | |
| PS Audio BHK 300 mono VS Modwright KWA 150SE mono VS D'agostino Classic stereo You have received lots of informative comments and interesting viewpoints to your question. Having recently gone through an amplifier search/trial I can attest to both the impact an amplifier can have on the sound of one’s system as well as the im... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Geoff... Hey, didn’t we solve the directional thingie a while back in this thread with Warren Gehl’s input about wire extrusion? "Solve" is such an absolute word in audiophile land where so much is uncharted and unexplainable. Do we need to revis... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... at 8 times the price of standard issue fuses Wolf, you left a zero off of your price comparison factor. I pay about $1.50 for Cooper/Bussmann glass fuses or, if I splurge, about $3 for their ceramic body fuses. Al, I agree with you about the... |