nrchy
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| Power Cable or Power Conditioner? I don't know where you live but in most places the power company doesn't consider voltage fluctuations of twenty volts to be excessive. Your equiment will work under these conditions but it will be handicapped by what's coming in the wall.I know i... | |
| Power Cable or Power Conditioner? There are some great recipes for power cords on the audio asylum website. For under $100 you can build a power cord that would cost considerably more. The major cost to you is time. It will probably take two hours to make your first cord.The Harmo... | |
| Where is my weakest link? Maybe it's all in your head. That's where we try to fool ourselves into thinking this little HiFi system actually sounds like live music. It's all a mental game after all. | |
| Sony SCD 777ES Really that Good??? I got an SCD-777ES a couple of weeks ago. Before I bought it I listened to LPs almost exclusively. I find I have been listening to a lot more CDs and SACDs since making the jump. Even redbook CDs sound considerably better but SACD is darn close to... | |
| Little help in cartridge purchase? Capaudio is right. Most people here are fairly honest but their idea of "mint" or "just broken-in" might not be the same as yours. Remember it's my stuff and your crap.I have the Benz Glider MO and think it is fantastic. Check to see if you really... | |
| Cheap Sony SACD players: best STOCK/MODified I listened to/auditioned a 333 from a local shop for one weekend. I borrowed a few SACDs which i had on either CD or LP. After the weekend I decided the 333 was not worth owning and wondered if all SACD players were so underwhelming.Since that wee... | |
| Power Cable recipes? Do you have a good one? The cords I've made are recipes I've gleened from audio asylum. I've made the amplifier cord and the cord for front-end pieces and I'm going to make the cord for digital equipment next. I recently got an SCD 777-ES which has the IEC connector on t... | |
| Why do DIY products have less value ? How much of the problem is that people just don't know you and the quality of work it is possible for you to turn out. If someone else knows they couldn't build a first rate piece of equipment why should they think you can? I build furniture in my... | |
| Should mags review stuff not easily available If magazines only printed articles about what I can buy in Green Bay it would be pretty sad to get the next issue of Stereophile or TAS. Macintosh and a little bit of Krell is about the extent of High-end audio in the third largest city in Wiscons... | |
| Speaker Placement Info Needed I'm afraid I might sound like a commercial but go get a copy of Robert Harleys "Complete Guide to High-end Audio." There is some good specific advice about speaker placement.Speaker placement is a two man job but I will try to relate to you the sy... | |
| My new dedicated room sound like crap,please help. There are so many things you can do it would be difficult to know where to start. I would suggest running down to Barnes and Noble and buying Robert Harleys "Complete guide to high-end Audio." He has a least one chapter on your listening room with... | |
| Better magazine, Stereophile or Absolute Sound I've been reading and subscribing on and off to Stereophile for about fifteen years. During that time I picked up the occasional TAS. Up until five years ago I would have said Stereophile was the better rag. In the lat few years they have lost a l... | |
| Best TT/Arm/cartridge combo for 3k Used You could buy a Sota Star, a Rega RB 900 arm and a Benz Glider for less than 3k and have a fantastic analog system with money to spare for records. You'll get lots of recommendations but I think this combo will outdo almost any VPI/SME combo in yo... | |
| Pioneer Elite PD 65 or Cal Audio Icon MkII ?? TracerI have not compared these two side by side, but I've logged a lot of hours on the CAL and found it to be a very listenable CD player. Mine was an original Icon which was sent back to CAL for the mk II upgrade. It did not have the powerboss b... | |
| Vinyl's Noise Floor I listen to analog predominately and the vast majority of my LPs are not noisy. I buy lots of used vinyl and still buy plenty of new releases. Noise is rarely an issue. My system consists of a Sota Star with the Rega RB 900 arm and a Benz Glider c... |