moto_man
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| List some of your favorite live Jazz recordings So many to choose from! One of my personal favorites, and a test album for me is Patricia Barber's Companion. Very well recorded, and the bass into on Use Me is excellent. Just a well-recorded album with excellent soundstage and range, as well ... | |
| What's the point of reviewing? Although I routinely read professional reviews, they are all essentially the same, gushing over soundstage, "micro detail" etc. They are generally useless. Does anyone recall a negative review of any product? I have an ARC Ref 6. On a lark, I went... | |
| Short Review of Revelation Audio Passage Cryo-Silver™ Reference umbilical power cable As I observed initially, the improvement in sound quality was surprisingly noticeable considering that these are short cables in between the power supply and the DAC. Nonetheless, the improvement was audible and when the cost is considered, a grea... | |
| Interconnects for Pass Labs X260.8 @audphile1, very strange. I like the HF with the Shunyata. Since we both use Pass amps and the Sabrina X speakers, I would have thought you would have a better experience. I wonder if room acoustics have anything to do with your experience. I... | |
| Interconnects for Pass Labs X260.8 @audiophile1, I am surprised that you did not like the Alpha v2 power cord. In my system, they made an audible difference, depending on what was replaced. For example, on the Pass, going from an Audience Power Chord to the Alpha was a minor impr... | |
| Interconnects for Pass Labs X260.8 I have a Pass Labs 250.8 powering Wilson Sabrina X's. I use Shunyata Alpha v.2 interconnects from the ARC REF to the ampler and Shunyata Alpha v.2 speaker cables. The sound fantastic with Pass and Wilson | |
| Why are People Dumping their Audio Research Gear and What Does it Say about them? I love my ARC REF6, and wouldn't sell it even if ARC closed their doors. I'd hold onto it until it died. Of course, sometimes I wish that I had gotten a solid state pre, just so I didn't have to be concerned about tube reliability, but it would ... | |
| Storage boxes. Can I discard high end shipping boxes, and still sell in the future? I learned the hard way to keep the original boxes wherever possible. Not only do the original boxes perfectly protect the equipment and have styrofoam inserts that perfectly fit and therefore protect the equipment, but to have expensive gear, esp... | |
| Jazz like this? Suggestions @painter24, I hear you! Jazz just helps me relax after a long day! I also listen to Gary burton/Ralph Towner’s album Matchbook… the acoustic guitar and Burtons Vibraphone is sublime. You’re lucky that your wife enjoys it. Mine hates jazz(?), but l... | |
| The best speaker cables you’ve had So many different opinions! I personally love Shunyata Alpha v2's. I went from Cardas Golden Cross to Audience Au24 to MIT Shotgun 3.3 to Morrow Audio SP7 and finally to the Shunyata's. I liked every single pair, honestly, but as my system upgr... | |
| Audio Research REF 6 to REF 6SE upgrade. Well, I love my ARC REF6 and I have very little interest in paying $5K to upgrade it. I suspect that as with a lot of upgrades, the improvements might be audible, but not by much. I am sure that there is something that I can upgrade for $5K that... | |
| Jazz like this? Suggestions Magnus Ringblom Quartet is music that I have never listened to. Great mellow stuff! Thanks for the suggestion! | |
| Pass Labs XP32 or XP22? I have a Pass Labs 250.8. As some others here have said, the ARC REF6 has a very sweet synergy with the Pass. I also tried going MSB DAC to amp, and VAC Renaissance Mark V as well, and the ARC REF6 sounded significantly better to me. Replacing ... | |
| Short Review of Revelation Audio Passage Cryo-Silver™ Reference umbilical power cable I am hijacking my own thread. Doesn't it make sense that if cables sound different, they should measure different, or the sound coming out of the speakers can be measured as being different? I definitely have heard audible improvements with diffe... | |
| Short Review of Revelation Audio Passage Cryo-Silver™ Reference umbilical power cable @roxy54, I don’t think that he is actually disparaging this particular product so much as disparaging the high end cable industry, for their lack of objectively verifiable evidence to support their sales pitches. Like you. I read a number of recom... |