muralman1
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| What could I expect to hear from a Class A amp? The dealer I am referring to told me, "I am not an audiophile." He has a huge collection of discs. He sells monitors of his own design to recording studios where he knows recording stars by first name. Of course his amps and preamp are on all the ... | |
| What could I expect to hear from a Class A amp? Ferrari, that would be calling me a fibber. Like I wrote, I used other conventional amps, including Pass Labs fair. Nothing ever came close, including the latest class A ware that approaches the fierce speed of resolution to the faintest nuances o... | |
| Best cable for short monoblock runs? Wow, a lot has past since I introduced the copper ribbon. I teased my 12 gauge ribbon from a Goertz 12 gauge ribbon inductor. It is about 2 inches wide, .003" thick, and all nines pure. I use plain old Reynolds Aluminum wrap cut into ribbons for t... | |
| What could I expect to hear from a Class A amp? Hi Almarg, I anticipated the questions you forwarded. The story of my visits to this dealer, to be honest, encompasses several visits. On one visit, I heard the 600.5 amps driving Apogee Scintillas, actually an even more ravenous ampere pig. I use... | |
| What could I expect to hear from a Class A amp? I am familiar with Nelson Pass's very best current products. I have the pleasure of knowing a dealer who employs Pass components powering the towering Apogee Full Range speakers. There are 600.5 amps handling the huge bass panels. The XA.5 100 fin... | |
| Best cable for short monoblock runs? Stringreen, actually there is for short runs, and it isn't commercial. Cardas is just awful, if you insert it anywhere in a really revealing system. I know, because I tried it. Of course, if a person's amps throw off objectionable HF sounds....I u... | |
| H2O Audio Owners Ahhhhhh..... I urge you to get the 2.1 kit eventually. How are you with a soldering iron? The rewards are really big. Sometimes there are better AN DACs here on audiogon. Here is one 3.1: http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?dgtlconv&1241507... | |
| H2O Audio Owners EXCELLENT!!! The speakers are wonderful. Which DAC are you using? Henry transformed my former One.1 from a dark mush to a bird chirper. The transformation in my 2.1 was just as startling after Henry got through with them. The AN folks don't think ... | |
| H2O Audio Owners I should temper my former thoughts. I am talking about Henry's gear in conjunction with Apogee Scintillas. I have heard the H2O on Gallo speakers that applied a different costly cable strategy. The sound was quite convincing. One thing, though. Th... | |
| H2O Audio Owners Hello Holman, you have bought the two most sonically invisible audio gear available. That can be either an asset or a curse. They will magnify any inadequacy you have in your system. They will also glorify your best equipment. This quest for the r... | |
| Cardas ICs are too warm for Tube amp Not having tried the Cardas GR IC, I don't know if I can draw a connection by having tried the Cardas IC's speaker cables. On my system the SCs were "Too warm, unclear midrange, dark and etc.," as well. What's more dielectric bleed into the signal... | |
| Cable Costs Relative to System The answer is the value of any component is only perceptible by the system owner. That given, I can truthfully say, on my system, no 10k speaker cable was worth looking at. The cabling I have is is worth .01 the worth of my system.MIT, Cardas, Jen... | |
| verdict on class D amps? With class D amps I have discovered less is more when it comes to ICs and SCs. My interconnects are very cheap but unusually designed and sound great. The SCs are home made. I turn my monos around, and push them to the back of the speakers. That e... | |
| verdict on class D amps? ISanchez, my preamp is the H2O Fire preamp. This is a most unique class A solid state preamp, in that it gets intolerably hot. It takes two hours of warm up to sound it's best which is ironically nothing. | |
| verdict on class D amps? There is a dealer and Apogee speaker restorer extraordinaire near me who has been courted by Bel Canto, and Spectron. He ran both of their most up to date amps for long enough to come to the hasty opinion all class D amps must be poor sounding. I ... |