nonoise
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| Worth upgrading from Morrow MA4's? If you can spring for them, there are some Darwin Ascension Plus B-Stock on sale here. Having them in my system and broken in, I'll go as far as to say I would have paid full price for them and not regretted it in the least (I blow the difference ... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report The Milk Carton Kids-"The Ash & Clay"Rhiannon Giddens-"Tomorrow Is My Turn"I never thought I'd find myself turning to simple folk music but it's so simple, truthful and rewarding when done right. Beautiful, actually. | |
| Kanye West - Grammy comment, re Beck I wonder what resurrected this thread. Too much down time. Scrolling through the threads. Drink in hand...... | |
| Considerations when buying older CD player I would buy new. I had a really nice TEAC PDH600 that sat for a year or so and was ready to sell it for a fair price only to have a channel to go out when I tested it before finalizing the sale. It seems that not only drawers or sleds go bad.All t... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report "Build Me Up From Bones" - Sarah Jarosz"Macca Flor" - Quadrod Nuevo"Prologue" - The Milk Carton Kids. | |
| max spade width for plastic covered binding posts I have the same type on my Marantz integrated and I really don't like them. They're touted as top flight 5 way binding posts but they really limit the way one can hook up speaker wire. Bananas are the easiest, followed by bare wire (but it's so mu... | |
| DIY Stereo Rack I don't see why butcher block wouldn't work. My Timbernation stands shelves are butcher block constructed and work just fine. I'd prefer to see the block intended before going for it as there's butcher blocks out there and then there are butcher b... | |
| Zu Mission speaker cables I have a pair that I haven't used in years and as I remember, they favor the midrange with somewhat recessed highs and a bit ambiguous bass. They weren't as detailed as I like but the tone was pretty good. This was with my Tonian Labs TL-D1s. I re... | |
| DIY Stereo Rack Maple is an excellent choice but if the cost is dear then Birch is a good substitute. They are close on the hardness scale being from similar families. Ash and walnut look fine and are hard as well so it's really just a matter of taste and what's ... | |
| Bookshelf Speakers with the decent bass Clearwave Duet 6 monitors might do it for you. I like them so I'm biased so I had a high end dealer over for a listen just to make sure I wasn't going mad and he thought highly of them and said he could listen to them all day long. He even inquire... | |
| Speakers or Amplifier When you say you want more bass I'm assuming that you mean more defined bass: that you want to hear more of what's going on instead of what I call 'musical smoke'.I'm in the 'try different cabling' camp and encourage you to try out a pair of Darwi... | |
| Review: Darwin Ascension Interconnect I just wanted to add to what Budmoe said about allowing a good 200 hours for these cables to sound their best. It's not to say that they don't sound great right out of the box, far from it. When I chimed in with my thoughts I only had about 25-30 ... | |
| Total cost of ownership - how to reduce it Sacrifice something to the audio gods. They can be very fickle. | |
| Is revealing always good? Spot on Bombaywalla.Most posts here, whether it be when someone speaks of a cables ability to unravel nuances, or a speakers penchant for accuracy, or in this case, a CDP that reveals, the feedback seems to bring a lot of baggage from other thread... | |
| FM broadcast vs. streaming I've listened to both versions of the same broadcast but they're on two different systems: my main rig and my iMac. The FM version has that air and all that I've been used to hearing all my life and it's quite satisfying. The streaming version sou... |