nglazer
Responses from nglazer
| Sony SCD-XA5400ES-Best SACD for under $10,000 Out of curiosity, I decided to spend $1100 street price to see how this stacks up against my modded CEC TL-1X/Dodson 218 combo. Delivery tonight; will burn in over weekend and will then report to the equally curious. Will try various PC's (Valhall... | |
| Sony XA5400ES DAC Chip Thanks, M. Yikes! be careful what you ask for!Neal | |
| C7 Power Cord Comparisons? Get an adaptor from Voodoo Cable and use your PC of choice, rather than limiting yourself to just the few liasted. I did that on my Wadia iTransport and it makes a huge difference in sound.Neal | |
| New speaker help. Proac-Spendor-Harbeth-Devore-PMC I have Spendor SA1's and have owned SP1's. I am a big Spendor fan. The SA1's, which I use in my BR system, are terrific little speakers, with more life than the SP1's and unbelievable soundstaging and imaging. Vocals are eerily natural and realist... | |
| Pure Class A shootout You cannot just evaluate the cost of a product on the date of purchase. To test its true value, one must amortize its cost over its useful life. By that measure, my Krell FPB 300cx, though expensive on Day 1, has proven to be an excellent value. A... | |
| Any tweaks recommded for under cd player? Use Aurios under my CEC TL-1X transport after trying many other solutions (Ceraballs, Plycrystal, BDR, etc.) Aurios was the ticket.Same exercise under my Dodson 218 DAC. Result: Herbie's Tenderfeet best. Fleshed out sound, wideneded soundstage. Im... | |
| What's in your Wadia iTransport system? i bought an adaptor from voodoo cable to allow for use of a better pc - lessloss -- and i also use an excellent digicable -- a kharma grand ref. i think a good pc and digicable will help tame your nasties. quite frankly, i have not heard any jitte... | |
| Upgrade from DACMagic? B&W 805S rig which computer has a spdif digital output? i thought all they had were optical, usb and some have firewire. do you use converter?neal | |
| Bel Canto CD 1 in 2009 - how does it stack up? i have an old bc dac 1.1. i tried it in place of my dodson 218 one night on a lark. there was a large difference in sound quality but the dac 1.1 certainly was pleasant and capable, and i could live with it in a 2d system. shorcomings were on the ... | |
| What next after Audience AU24 and Siltech G3? if you can swing audioquest sky's from pre to amp, you would get greater ss and body, with no brightness or harshness; they are very smooth. pad venustas would also give you what you are looking for in spkr cables. don't mean to spend your money o... | |
| Tube preamplifier tube choice help please the russian 1578 tubes, if genuine, are exceptional. i use them for input and sylvania bad boys for output on my wyetech opal pre, after much experimenting, and it is a great combo. ken-rads add more warmth if you like that. 6sn7's are widely avai... | |
| Whats your current Reference CD at the moment? latest ricki lee jones cd, balm in gilead. stunning sonics.neal | |
| Looking for Wagner recommendations t s eliot also was an anti-semite, but indubitably a great poet, as was ezra pound, a fascist who broadcasted for mussolini. if we insisted our great artists also be great people, we would live in a cultural wasteland. wagner is a giant whose musi... | |
| Dynaudio C1 with more impact A room that size not only will accommodate floorstanders but also will require them. My LR is 22 x 12 x 10 (LWH) and easily enjoys 42"H x 16"D x 8"W speakers. Go for FS's. C1's are great speakers but too small for that room. laws of ohysics are im... | |
| Pure Class A shootout Spanking aside, 35 years of audiophilia, my own tastes and 6 years of "cohabitation" tell me Krell FPB 300cx, properly matched with the right cables and preamp, will more than hold its own with any amps near its price range, regardless of Class.neal |