mshan
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| Monster X-terminators vs. Audioquest banana plugs? Just decided to purchase the Audioquest gold ones.Audio Advisor website says they accept 1/4 inch spades.Cardas spades I have look like they are actually 5/16, but for some reason don't fit onto Omega Super 3R Cardas binding posts (also had to sna... | |
| Monster X-terminators vs. Audioquest banana plugs? Can you confirm that those Cardas banana plug adapters accept 1/4 inch spades?I e-mailed Cardas earlier today, but haven't heard back from them yet. | |
| Monster X-terminators vs. Audioquest banana plugs? Is the distance between those the individual plugs in the Cards dual banana plug post adjustable?And just to confirm, that adapter is designed allow spade lug terminated speaker wire (I think 1/4 spades in my case) with standard banana posts (Card... | |
| Tube pre-amps $3500 under to add "warmth" Used Joule-Electra LA-100 mk. 3.Incredibly musical preamp, seemingly often way underpriced in the used market (two currently available at $1795 / $1750 and I've seen others lower than that in the past). | |
| amps for Merlin VSM-MXE Joule-Electra Stargate monoblocks?(supposed to sound very close to the much more expensive Joule-Electra OTLs) | |
| suggest receivers for magnepan MMG or MMGW HT I read others recommend Aragon or Arcam (I want to eventually get the Magnepan HT system - MMGC/MMGW - and am thinking about using an Arcam AVR300 with them). | |
| Bel Canto DAC2 vs. DAC1/1.1? Hi Jaguar:Have you compared the coaxial and optical outputs? (I would be using an RME Digi96/8 PAD sound card, which has both coaxial and optical outputs, though I think the optical one is supposed to be better, in terms of a greater signal to noi... | |
| Good battery powered Toslink optical DAC needed Scott Nixon offers a toslink input as an approximately $30 option to his NOS dacs. There is no switch between coaxial and optical, so you have to be careful to have just one input active. | |
| Best bit-rate for MusicMatch MP3? Hi Ed:Is it consensus that 192 kbps is, in general, the best sounding constant bit codec for MP3s? (I also use EAC for ripping CDs was WAVs. I am just looking for an MP3 format that sounds good on my computer speakers and other mid-fi equipment.)P... | |
| Dark and laid back vs bright and forward I believe light and dark refer to overall tonal balance while forward and laid-back refer to refer to overall soundstage perspective (e. g. front row vs. middle of hall). I view brightness as a more severe form of a light tonal balance. | |
| Stands make a huge difference with ProAc You can probably produce a fuller (and slightly warmer) tonal balance with either Cardas Golden Cross (Cardas Cross may also work) interconnects and / or speaker wire. Acoustic Zen Matrix Reference or Wow may also produce a similar effect.You can ... | |
| Why are my burned opera CDRs distorting so badly? Found out it was the "Normalize" filter I was using on all of my audio compilations. | |
| Amp/pre for Soundlab M1s Advice: Digital or no? Any tube preamps that you've found to work particularly well with the Parasound JC-1's and Sound Lab M-1 speakers? | |
| Amp/pre for Soundlab M1s Advice: Digital or no? Hi Duke:Any idea how the Parasound JC-1 monoblocks work with the Sound Lab M-1s? | |
| Isopropyl alcohol and CD crazing? Hi Rodagent:Interesting premise that too high a reflectivity will lead to excessive brightness; any weblinks where I can read more about this? I wonder if the same thing applies to various blank CDR media?Both the Optrix and isopropyl alcohol soun... |