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| Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday! Big Chill was poorly mastered. But it also was out of absolute phase. If you are using XLR's with the SA-10 go to settings and check the phase and reverse it and listen. I check all my CD's to make sure my phase setting is correct. Some gear pin 2... | |
| Suggestions for Balanced cable between Luxman C900U and M900U. Lessloss C-Marc and you are done. | |
| Isoacoustics Gaia Speaker Footers In audio with a decent system anything you add, even 4 hard fresh apples under a preamp say and it will cause a change in the sound. Any footers will also, more furniture in a room and so on. In the end you have to like the change in the sound, b... | |
| Quad ESL service, Electrostatic Solutions or Quads Unlimited ? Electrostatic Solutions is superb. I purchased a total rebuilt pair of ESL 63's. Kent was great, good communication, and great work and warranty on his work. I would use him again with No reservations. A+++ | |
| Furman IT-REF 20I USERS- Tired Subject but Would like to hear from owners/users How does the 20i compare to high-end Niagra units? 5000, 7000?Kissen cousins. High-End? Please, Furman is used in pro studios. Because its market as pro use does not mean it not good enough for high-end, Just a 4 thousand more to the price then I ... | |
| Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday! Long burn-in 2 months or so). Filter 1, Digital out off, Dither 0 or 1 depending on your system and room. A wonderful player in all formats. Noise shaper 3-1. | |
| Esoteric K-03 / K-01 Leave Power On ? Turn it on the morning you plan to listen to your system that evening. It sounds better after 5-6 hours on, much more organic, even 8 hours on. The key to the sound of the Esoteric is the long burn-in time and power cord. Filters Org and FIR 1. | |
| Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday! No the Esoterics and Sony's and Marantz have been fine, not to say they never would have issues. Japanese players I've used have work and worked well even after I sold them one 15 years later and still was going it was Sony CPA 7ES. The 1st player... | |
| Marantz SA-10 Vs Esoteric K-05Xs I've had mine for 4 months and it finally broke in thank god that was a long time!. Using many types of music, the best I've heard was dither off, Filter 1 and noise shaping 3-1. This gave the most transparent, dynamic and superb balanced sound. I... | |
| Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday! I've had mine for 4 months and it finally broke in thank god that was a long time!. Using many types of music, the best I've heard was dither off, Filter 1 and noise shaping 3-1. This gave the most transparent, dynamic and superb balanced sound. I... | |
| What settings for a Marantz SA-10? I've had mine for 4 months and it finally broke in thank god that was a long time!. Using many types of music, the best I've heard was dither off, Filter 1 and noise shaping 3-1. This gave the most transparent, dynamic and superb balanced sound. I... | |
| Power conditioner and high end power cord Any power cord will impact on the power supply of a given piece of equipment power supply reacts to it dues to the basic design of the cable and its inductance and so forth. In short, any cable is a crapshoot which is why you should try them in yo... | |
| AC Regenerator I just received my PS Audio P12 and its just wonderful. Sinewave setting is very nice with natural details, the multiwave 6 level gives the whole presentation and vocals a nice presence. This is right out of the box with 3 hours on it, I use the C... | |
| The Absolute Sound "review" of USB cable reads suspiciously like a press releaste The rags are not the hobbyist, today they are sales for audio companies, they are partners. Anyone can see that by reading and how they create trends for companies and many at times are short lived and folks are stuck with a product with little to... | |
| Marantz SA 10 compared to Right now like the K-01 Crystal Clear Audio, Opus. |