myrtle
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| Tube preamp with balanced in/out and remote? Or a Django TVC perhaps. | |
| Benchmark DAC 1 - first thoughts You could use the Lavry if you used adaptors. | |
| DIY solid gold interconnects? You are on the right track, I have pure gold interconnects and they are fantastically musical and detailed. I think the Gabriel Golds use an alloy, not pure gold. The ones I know that use pure gold are the Jade, KCI and Antipodes (which are what I... | |
| Balanced Cables I have always found I preferred single ended, whenever I have tried the comparison. Something appeared to be missing with balanced. It seemed like there was less palpability of images. | |
| Valhalla interconnects - recommended? I went from Valhallas to Antipodes Gold interconnects (after trying a lot of alternatives) and enjoy my system a lot more now. The Valhallas always made my system sound very impressive and it was hard to fault the sound, but there was somehow a la... | |
| What is the BEST sound card to use with a MAC G5 Thanks Steve, then I would recommend the OP look at the Off-Ramp Turbo 2. I have had the Wavelength and the Hagerman equivalents, and they are not remotely comparable soundwise to the Off-Ramp. | |
| Speaker Effeciency and Bass Production Impossible to answer that one definitively but if it helps, I use a 10w amp to drive 90dB speakers in a large room, sitting 10 feet away and I have never heard my amps clip. I don't listen at ear splitting levels but cranking it up my ears run out... | |
| What is the BEST sound card to use with a MAC G5 Have a look at the Empirical Audio products, they sound way better than any soundcard I have ever come across - I am talking about the Off-Ramp Turbo. Since I know nothing about Macs I don't know if the wired off-ramp can work for you but the WiFi... | |
| Gabriel Gold IC's are they really this good? I found the Jade Hybrid and the Antipodes Gold better than the Gabriel Revelation in my very revealing system, more resolution and richer textures - best was the Antipodes, all the richness of gold but lightning fast. YMMV of course and they were ... | |
| Class-D amps - a different re view It is important to realise that switching amps use one of a variety of different designs, there isn't a ubiquitous Class D design just as there isn't for SS or tubes. The issue about loads applies to some of them, not to others. I have tried Ice m... | |
| Anybody had experience with stealth Indra ? I was able to try the Indra for a couple of weeks and they are the second best cable I have ever heard. They beat my Antipodes SG interconnects but didn't quite have the magic of the Antipodes Golds I auditioned at the same time. The Antipodes Gol... | |
| Class-D amps - a different re view In the end I have to go with my own ears. I had graduated to Plinius 102 and tried the Nuforce and ditched the Plinius without a second's thought. The Nuforce was more real, and removed the stodginess and electronic hash of the Plinius. | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? Best I ever heard have been the open baffle speakers I made for myself - they replaced my Verity Parsifals without any qualms. | |
| KCI Pure Gold and the benefits Where can I try these KCI interconnects? I have a pair of the Antipodes Audio SG interconnects and was blown away at how much better the Antipodes Gold was when I tried it, but maybe I should be trying some others before I splash out. |