phillyb
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| 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... | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming Thanks to the politics that audio is becoming and the magazine pushing the current trend the fact is formats don't make a great recording, that happens in the studio and the final release production of that performance on any format. If poorly re... | |
| Ethics are sliding by members! The real hobbyist are still great people to deal with, they are the minority now days. Dealers and those buyers who buy as cheap as possible then turnaround and sell for a profit, this running there own little business. I've sold to many great buy... | |
| What are fuses used for? Why the put downs? If he heard nothing so what. It is his money and his experience. If you heard a huge improvement then good for you. Leave it there. | |
| Old vs. new Digital sounds as good as the mastering. I grew up with vinyl and I am glad it’s hip again. I plan to stay with my vast CD collection because they sound as good as anything I owned on vinyl. Yes there is a more rounding sound where digital is more... | |
| Furman Reference IT 15i power conditioner All who own Furman's and the twins Audioquest. Using the top outlets of each bank provides the best sound and lowest noise, using the bottom out of the bank will thin out the sound somewhat and is less dynamic but like always try them both for you... |