moto_man
Responses from moto_man
| 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... | |
| Short Review of Revelation Audio Passage Cryo-Silver™ Reference umbilical power cable @roxy54, I think that he was bemoaning the fact that so many expensive cables are sold on sizzle and no actual objective empirical data to back that sizzle up. I too wonder why improvements in sound by cables cannot be objectively measured, or at... | |
| Short Review of Revelation Audio Passage Cryo-Silver™ Reference umbilical power cable @1971gto455ho , I don’t want this to turn into a cables do/dont make any audible difference discussion, but I agree with you that logically, if something sounds different, there should be a way to measure that difference, either with REW and a hig... | |
| Short Review of Revelation Audio Passage Cryo-Silver™ Reference umbilical power cable @richmon, I hear you. I read the same stuff, most of it years ago. All I can tell you is that Brad was a perfect seller with me, and the cables really are excellent and an excellent value. If you are really interested, just mention the issues a... | |
| Adding a Dac and Stresmer If you can find one used, I would highly recommend the MSB Analog DAC and Power Base with their renderer. It is a great DAC/streamer and fantastic 3D soundstage. I upgraded to that from a Naim NDX which was also a nice DAC/streamer, but not in t... | |
| Short Review of Revelation Audio Passage Cryo-Silver™ Reference umbilical power cable I guess my 65 year old ears weren't fooling! Both @rrboogie @roxy54 heard the same thing as I did. Trying to describe these improvements gives me some new respect for reviewers who try to describe such improvements. Would I say that it was ... |