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| Best Miles Davis Mono LPs to Start a Collection Why buy vinyl for my wife when she can't listen to it on her CD-only system? Easy. So she can listen to it on mine, with me. See, she's, also, a budding audiophile who, like me, thinks music just sounds better on vinyl.It's certainly more collecta... | |
| What's the best speaker cable for a 20ft run? Here's a specific example I can give you: Paul Speltz lists the capacitance for his Anti-Cables as: 0.002nF/foot run.However, his cables are only 12 ga. No problem, right? Because he sells them "shotgunned", so now you have two 12 ga cables doing ... | |
| What's the best speaker cable for a 20ft run? Thanks for your responses. Now, I have some good suggested brands/models to use as my "references" (Kimber, Canare, Romex) and some criteria to select cables with which to compare them (at least 11 ga with low capacitance).Now, what about this?Do ... | |
| Phase Linear I bought a Phase Linear 400 in the '70s when I was sixteen. It was very powerful. Then, it went up in flames--literally. A tech at a local stereo store replaced all the output transistors with ones of better quality. He said he put a lot of work i... | |
| Power cords with bass emphasis All life is will to bass.Or, as George C might say, All life is will to funk.Actually, I want to be able to hear an electric bass guitar and have it sound like the one my son plays. Although, it would be playing something else. | |
| IC's between Power Amp and Pre Amp What speakers and speaker cable will you be using with them? Is there a certain type of music you listen to more than others? And, what aspects of sonic performance are the most, and least, important to you? | |
| AUDIENCE 24 IC VS.? I have experience using the AU-24 interconnects in different configurations and have done many comparisons.First off, as has been said before, cable suitabiltiy is entirely system-dependent. IMHO, "This is better than that" comments aren't very us... | |
| Blind Power Cord Test & results This all reminds me of the time I attended a Stereophile-sponsered exhibition/convention (which I believe they hold with some regularity). I was a salesperson at a high-end audio store at the time. At the show, they had one of those "can you tell ... | |
| Personal amp evolution Built a Dynaco Stereo 120; bought, blew up (flames!), and had rebuilt a Phase Linear 400; went to college, blacked out and woke up with a Counterpoint SA-12; had a protracted drinking binge and paid full retail for a Golden Tube Audio SE-40; had s... | |
| Best Budget Integrated Hands down Certain amps are better for certain speakers than others. They have an almost symbiotic relationship. I'm unfamiliar with the sound of some of those units, I must admit, but if you could tell us what speakers you were considering--or, already have... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? The best speaker system I ever heard was the Wilson Audio WAMMs, years ago. They could reproduce the dynamics of a full-scale orchestra and still present a close approximation of the sound of real instruments.But, the top of the line Soundlabs I'v... | |
| Audiophiles & music-have you got it wrong? One issue no one has raised is whether there is a relationship between the level of ones "audiophillia" and the time one spends listening to individual recordings. In other words, the dollars I've spent on my system allow me to listen deeper into ... | |
| High End Myth Glossary. I've noticed that, contrary to the myth that audiophiles have adversarial relationships with their spouses, my system sounds better when my wife sits next to me. I don't think she quite qualifies as furniture, however. (Although she can be a bit s... | |
| Is there way to stop mold due to water damage? Thanks for the advice and kind words, Sean. And you're absolutely right, of course, I should count my blessings that I still have all that wonderful music to enjoy. | |
| Girlfriends and wifes, how do YOU cope? Hi,For a CD only bedroom system near $1K I'd start with the original top-loading Rega Planet CD player--Easy to load in the dark and much beloved by Stereophile. About $425, used.It's very "live" sounding, plus it's musical and "analog-like", and ... |