newbee
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| Speaker Cable Termination Bare wire is good but it will oxidize and its tough to clean all those individual wires :-). I prefer good spades which clean more easily or locking bananas in that order. FWIW. | |
| A mistake spending too much on amplification? "spending that money on more music"Probably the most intelligent conclusion anywhere in this thread! :-)Do it! | |
| Whats more important? Speaker or the Amp Old subject. Nothing new. A speakers performance is highly variable and its sound will depend on the amp driving it. But the greatest amp (whatever that is) will sound like crap if the speaker sounds like crap. The quality of the speaker is the ul... | |
| A mistake spending too much on amplification? All of this talk about speakers vs electronic's and the ratio of costs between the two leaves me feeling like I just had a Chinese lunch! Hell, its not even an hour later and I'm hungry again! :-)Speakers are the BIG deal. Best speakers you can af... | |
| Which CD Players? You don't indicate a price range, but if you're looking for something in the $1500 +/- range, check out the Raysonic 128. Well built and tunable by tube selection. Got a good review in 6moons. Their only, possibly negative, comment was it was full... | |
| A mistake spending too much on amplification? Chiho, Whether you hear differences or not, or whether the differences are large or small (to you) depends mainly on what you are trying to accomplish by changing amps and how experienced a listener you are. If you have no specific goals and only ... | |
| Is Digital actually better than Analog? Gregm, Just a thought in addition to your comments on 'dynamic range'. I've come to believe that the real importance of getting a system to sound like 'live' instruments, is not so much the difference between minimum SPL and maximum SPL, but wheth... | |
| Am I the only one purchasing hybrid disc's....... Pawlowski - I'm listening to a two channel redbook system. My point of reference is other well recorded redbook recordings. I do not have either a SACD player or a multichannel system. But I'm very much into audio and I have a large collection by ... | |
| First round of auditions disappointing Tvad and others,Tvad, I noticed the Shahinians - a big caveat, note that they use a driver which may not be obtainable to a user if one (or more) needed to be replaced. :-( Re comments of Seadweller's wife that the speaker sounded boxy. Am I the o... | |
| Can you convert a pre-amp to a headphone amp? Here is a Rube Goldberg method. Put splitters on your pre-amp out puts. Plug your amp into one side, and some RCA to headphone adaptor cables into the other. Plug your headphones into the adaptor and listen. If your pre-amp has enuf gain and there... | |
| your favorite music Steve O, Yep, I'm especially fond of those big old clattery Bosdendorf Imperials. BTW I've got Gould's Goldbergs. Do they get any better than that? :-) | |
| EH 6550s or Svetlana 6550C EH's will have more high end energy. Ditch thoughts about Svetlana 6550's, they are Sovteks in desguise. The SED "winged C" (Old Svetlana's) are IMHO far more neutral in tone and very rugged. The only caveat on the SED's is to be sure you get thos... | |
| First round of auditions disappointing well. I hate to say it but Aball is right. (:-))About all you can tell when you hear a dealer's set up of a set of speakers of good general reputation that sounds poor is that the dealer hasn't spent much time on set up. Good quality and well set ... | |
| Moscode 401HR's Sonic Character Asa, FWIW, if you are considering buying th Primaluna amps consider how well they will interface with your pre-amp. | |
| How to Preserve New Shiny Banana Speaker Ends? FWIW. Its my understanding that the only real benefit from using gold (plated) anything is to allow more efficient conductance of current AND to make this effective both surfaces should be gold. So if your speaker connectors are not gold plated it... |