mitch2
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| WHY CABLES MATTER! Arrogance is a two-way street. Smoke 'em if you got 'em... | |
| Mains Power Cable DIY Do yourself a favor and don't overthink it. Purchase bulk ac cable, ac power plugs, and iec plugs from reputable manufacturers like Furutech, Neotech, or DH Labs and then carefully construct the cables by attaching the plugs/iecs and connecting t... | |
| Are audiophile products designed to initially impress then fatigue to make you upgrade? @fsonicsmith1 I have friends who ride Doug Fattic frames. Ti for road and gravel here. Back to audio, I believe many of the products from manufacturers that frequently release new stuff (i.e., the opposite of Lamm) are “designed to initially i... | |
| Site issues please log here! It has seemed slow'ish to me for around a week or so now. Closing open tabs and restarting may help slightly but in general there seems to be a speed issue that I did not previously notice and that I am not experiencing with other sites. | |
| New Duelund hookup wire: DCA10GA Western Electric tinned, annealed, 10 ga copper wire also sounds good as either speaker cable or power cord. The NOS or OS WE 10 ga wire can be found as a twisted pair, which provides a uniform twist for PCs and SCs. I believe this is the wire tha... | |
| What was your first record? I remember the first album I purchased to play on my first "real" stereo in the early 1970s - Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Faces - Five Guys Walk into a Bar | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Songbook - Chris Cornell | |
| How is Quality and Customer Service defined in the 21st Century? Quality and customer service are two different things. Customer service is what it always was - responsiveness and the golden rule (i.e., treating your customers as you would want to be treated yourself). Some of the companies I have worked with... | |
| Budget preamp recommendation...besides Schiit. Khozmo passives or Hattor passive/active, both made with high quality attenuators and parts plus huge selection of options between the two "sister" companies (i.e., same owner/manufacturer - Hattor is to Khozmo what Lincoln is to Ford). | |
| Moving Soon - Should I Pack Up Everything Now?? I agree with @bigtwin. If you are going to be living there for a while, then leave the system set up so you can listen. Mostly potential buyers want to be able to visualize what they would do with the various rooms in a house. Your system does ... | |
| What is the science behind audiophile fuses? "And even that is necked down just at one end." Maybe from the heat of the solder used to connect that end of the wire to the end cap? The other end was probably connected prior to installing the heat shrink tubing. | |
| Home network Fibre optic vs Ethernet @oddiofyl @carlsbad2 make a good point, fibre is incredibly inexpensive so running both should not add much to your initial costs and things do change. For example, if my router had a fibre output and my server had a fibre input, maybe fibre ... | |
| Home network Fibre optic vs Ethernet I have both Ethernet (CAT8) and fiber running from my router 45 feet to my system. I have compared the sound from those two options multiple times and I have used a variety of filters as well as linear power supplies on all the FMCs and periphera... | |
| Don’t buy used McCormack DNA 1990s amps @paimei If I could have anything in audio, a new Mccormack would be at the top of that list. If it existed. Yes it mostly does exist, as mentioned previously in this thread. If a new McCormack amplifier is truly at the top of your list, th... |