phillyb
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| Pangea interconnects? All cables are a crap shoot they all interact differently and the room acoustics play a bigger role. Having said that the Pangea I tried for the funny of it was every clean and fast sounding. Power cords 9SEii are quite good, takes some burn in. F... | |
| 15amp / 20amp PC's and Conditioners? Furman. Been in studio for years. Every well respected with sound designs without the BS from audiophile companies and their marketing crap. | |
| Furman Reference IT 15i power conditioner I own a Furman IT Reference 20i and it is without doubt the best addition to my system that I could have made. Dead silence, details, speed, body all improved with no down sides. Bass is clean and deeper. I’ve owned others from so called audiophil... | |
| Esoteric K01: What are the best settings for CD? I must mention that power cord used will dictate filter setup. I have enjoyed Org with For 1 and then Org and SDYL 2 when I switched power cords. For more natural cords ORG and SDYL 2. For cords that add more weight then I use Org and FIR 2. On th... | |
| Power Cord Recommendation Big surprise for me was the Signal Cables. They have trounced big $$$ ones and much better sounding than Pangea they just sound dull and bright at the same time. You do not have to spend big dollars for quality cables. | |
| Attn Vinyl lovers - what CD Player do you use? I have owned all Marantz reference players and all have been superb. The SA 10 will join that great group. This one with advances and design. | |
| What are you using to rip your cds to a hard drive? What I have found. No rip sounds as good as the CD. I’ve tried everything including upsampling them to higher bits. I know it the rave now, but I found my CD’s sound just great on my Esoteric K01 as well as my old vinyl that I can enjoy at times. ... | |
| DSD vs. PCM vs. MQA - Group listening experiment Remastered anything will sound better than a poorly mastered CD or vinyl. | |
| Attn Vinyl lovers - what CD Player do you use? Your right to have the turntable outside of your playing area. Not many know what of the nice effects of a turntable is it picks up the vibes and room in the reproduction and that gives it a special sound. On a good system just have someone cover ... | |
| Importance of Power cords feeding Conditioners No matter the cable hour sound will change. Then your room acoustics play a huge role. So it not easy to tell anyone what works because I once changed my drapes behind my speakers and I had to reset my system. My advise is to try before you buy. H... | |
| Power Conditioner deleterious to digital sources? A well designed amp will never sound right with any conditioner’s. Front end is different. Stick with the professionals like Furman who been in it for years and made it fame in recording studio’s. I use a Reference 20i. Only one I’ve kept. I like ... | |
| Best line conditioner??? They are a crap shoot. How your gear reacts to them is the unknown. Balanced power gives some gear fits. I like Furman reference 20i and I have kept it, while others have come and gone and some quick. I feel for front end gear the Harmonic Technol... | |
| Want to buy for a power conditioner? Any power conditioner will change the sound, now if you like it and most of all does your equipment like it. They all interact with the power supplies. Some gear hate balanced power, some get slow sounding. I use a Furman Reference 20i. I tried it... | |
| Attn Vinyl lovers - what CD Player do you use? Nkonor,I thought the British Blue Box was the best the Beatles sounded on vinyl. mobile Fidelity EQ them and I was not happy and really don't like a lot of their releases. Stones sounded better than any releases in Vinyl on the German Telefunken's... | |
| Attn Vinyl lovers - what CD Player do you use? Greg, i never enjoyed early Esoteric. The K series though really hit the mark. I will say best buy in a New CD player is Marantz Reference players, the new one is musical as the old one but more purity. I could live with any of them. The K01 is ju... |