phillyb
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| 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. | |
| Marantz SA 10 compared to The SA10 is one of the finest CD players I've owned and I have owned many and some much more $$$. The Marantz has a purity to the sound, CD or SACD are just superb. BUT the power cord you use will make or break this unit, same for the K-01. Anyone... | |
| Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday! The SA-10 is a superb CD player in both formats. Give it the right power cord and it can go against units at 3X the price. Their a rightness about the sound, the design where it by passes the DAC and the conversion 11-Mhz DSD and direct out to you... | |
| New Pangea Audio AC-14 XL Power Cord Let all cables burn-in, Pangea takes weeks. Never judge a cable until you have it for a month. | |
| Harmonic Technology Interconnects Jim Wang retired and sold his company. Zen started after Jim 's partner left and started it. Jim designs were as good anything at any price. The Magic 2 cables were just superb, the speaker cables used 2 runs per speaker, using the purity of Ohno... | |
| Quad ESL 63 In Another League Now Boy, lot’s of opinions. But in this day and age attacking someone call a product garbage does zip for a anyone posting something heard, and doubled check by switching several power cords, what I heard is not something I expected, per what Kent sai... | |
| Quad ESL 63 In Another League Now George,Sorry, but they sound better with a better power cord. My ears tell me the truth. | |
| CD Got Absolutely Crushed By Vinyl This is the same old argument and old. My collection of CD's does not sound shrill, grainy, overly bright unless that was the recording in the 1st place. CD sound excellent as good as vinyl and in cases better, I own both. Having said that CD soun... | |
| Audioquest custom made triple weave design power cable (Storm Series). Funny they look like the Anticable reference designs with only the battery pack. Anticable $300.00 and sound oh so good. | |
| People That Have Upgraded From Harbeth 30.1s.... Best speaker purchase I've done in 30 years was to try a pair of rebuilt Quads ESL 63's by Electrostatic Solutions. Rebuilt totally and an updated power supply which really took this already great speaker up another few levels. Very natural, perf... | |
| Are there any really good cd cleaners out there? I tried many products, all changed the sound. Some brighter some more bass, that is unreal when you think about it, how any added spray can change the sound. I use a very high-quality car wax now, just a dap, spread, let it cure and then I buff it... |