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| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Mmaksahk, Does APL Denon 3910 do over or upsampling or is it straight-up 16/44.1? Sorry I am not familiar with this model. Is it Denon CD player and modified or is it APL brand using Denon transport mechanism. What does DSP do? Is there any Alex's... | |
| Which speaker to replace Dunlavy SC-V? Dunlavy IVa or VI. There is no substitute. I have listened to many big speakers in last 8-9 years, and only ones I liked that can deliver the performance are the MBL 101 and Its little brother and Wilson maxx2's. Both sounds very very good but wit... | |
| Who makes switch-box for balance inputs? Kramer Electronics makes different switches- multiple balanced and unbalanced. I bought one model with 4 balanced inputs and one out with switches and all internal wiring changed to Acoustic Zen silver ref to match my ics. Honestly I can tell the ... | |
| Are some of us cultish in our beliefs I am in Jadis (source.amps,preamps), MBL (complete systems), Dunlavy (speakers) (cultish) camp . Wilson (speakers) also impresses me lately. | |
| Electrical properties of cables I had a cable like that and like Joe Abrams says measured appx 3 db down. It took me a long time to figure out what was happening. It turned out that if I put some kind of wedge underneath the cable (like a plastic case of a regular camera film), ... | |
| Phono cable/grounding/loading questions Larryi, You are so right! Finally I gathered all the courage to fiddle with VTA. Ofcourse after reading very precise instructions written in my manual. It does say that don't assume 'factory set' VTA is always right, since the cartridge heights ar... | |
| Thom Yorke's new CD I just picked up my LP today from Tower Records. Put it on for casual check and indeed it is coherently great music. I also plan to get a CD, which is $9.99 at Tower. Thom York's voice makes it all more than worthwhile. | |
| Phono cable/grounding/loading questions Viridian, I listen in nearfield position to get most of the room effects out. While SPl meter is not the best way to measure/confirm what I hear, it is ths only way I got. VTA angle change is a good suggestion, which I might try.Dgarretson, I am n... | |
| Phono cable/grounding/loading questions Dgarretson, Looks like you and I posted above responses about same time.1) Thanks for the technical insight. 2) Good. I just disconnected the ground wires and sat down for critical listening sesson. What do you know, the sound 'fell' in to place!!... | |
| Phono cable/grounding/loading questions Viridian, Thanks for clear cut to a point answers. In response to item 4) The arm is SPJ that came with La Luce turn table. I believe the arm is very good. I am using Cardas freq check LP (there is 10 K HZ track and 30hz-30khz freq sweep among oth... | |
| member system photos??? While perfect placement of speakers and room treatments help you get more out of your perfectly assembled system, if you don't have the basic tonal balance right, the better placement, better treatment ain't gonna do a whole lot of good. I would p... | |
| What's your system response on " Feels like home" Actually, I am not sure I will call the Norah Jones CD or Vinyl (Feels like home and the previous one) quite natural but I think they are very challanging to systems. The sound balance tests the systems at 'seams' at realistic volume level. I thin... | |
| Biwired-Dunlavy V- Bass reduced why? Mistery solved!!Well, Biwiring does NOT reduce bass db but only quality. with my IV's with my old cables, I was comparing uncorrected Ratshack meter values to my previously measured single wire corrected ref. I did not realize untill test I did ju... | |
| Biwired-Dunlavy V- Bass reduced why? Nope!! | |
| Biwired-Dunlavy V- Bass reduced why? Shadorne, The connection are correct. Let me dwell on this a little longer. May be it is the new cables with Vs. Or may be lack of complete distortion at low freq coupled with increased transparancy ( very apparent using same old cables with IVs) ... |