phillyb
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| Power regenerator vs conditioner I tried many over the past 15 years and I landed on a newer designed PS Audio regenerator P-12 for my front-end gear and it is the best sounding one I’ve heard from any passive, isolation transformer design like the Furman Reference 20i which I li... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... @phillyb,Why buy music when you can stream CD-quality unlimited music for under $20 a month. Because I enjoy collecting and owning the music. I have thousands of CD's and continue to buy them. I owned thousands of LP also, sold them all in the ... | |
| Audio envy - dang! I own a lot of Audio Envy cable. And my comments were meant as my process of music enjoyment, I still have the cables in my system and letting them further burn-in, I purchased several cables from online sellers, not from AE. The resale prices wer... | |
| Down to two ? Shunyata Delta NR or Audioquest Thunder? Audio Envy cables and you are done if you allow them to burn-in. | |
| Upgrading Speaker Cables: Wireworld Silver Eclipse or Transparent Audio Ultra? Wireworld Silver 7 power cords sound totally different with the upgraded connectors, night and day different. Tells you how much the connector ends impact the sound. Having said that which one you like would depend on your system and room acoustic... | |
| Audio envy - dang! Tried AV cables, they are voiced to what Captin feels is correct. I found them thin in the needed bid-bass and lacking deep bottom end and overtones, the cables are an upper midrange up the sound which of course will sound more open, and detailed ... | |
| What settings for a Marantz SA-10? I’ve owned a mega priced units and this newer Marantz. The SA-10S1 is a steal for the price and sound reproduction. My last player was the older Esoteric K-01, the Marantz was in no way below it, except for massive dynamics that really threw the m... | |
| Marantz SA-10 Vs Esoteric K-05Xs I owned the K-01 a wonderful CD player, had massive attack and dynamics that put vinyl to shame. Loved it. Got ill so I sold the K-01, and the only player I considered was the Marantz SA-10S1. I’ve not looked back with regret. The K-01 still has m... | |
| Class D Class D is the future and continues to improve as solid-state did and tubes over time did. My next amp will be class D of some sort, no longer going to want to lift my 100 lb McIntosh amp which is superb. It will be sold at local pickup only at a ... | |
| PS Perfect wave power cord I wanted to add my experience. You can see in my 1st post that I was not high on the PS Audio AC-12. I never sold them, so 2 weeks ago I pulled them out and put them back where I had tried them before and let the system play with the amp off for a... | |
| High end Class D amps? Class D is the future. Boomers stop bashing it, its a maturing product now. PS Stellar 1200 is sweet, Red Cherry, Merrill at a lot more money would give any amp made today regardless of cost a run. Now a pure tube system and I mean pure tube, with... | |
| Where can Open Baffle speakers be placed All speakers work different in different rooms. My sapphires M3’s work very well 32” from the front wall in my room out further the bass is not as good, now I have ASR panels and bass traps in each corner of the front wall along with heavy curtain... | |
| Should I use Speaker Spike / Isolation Base or Something? It all depends on the floor and the speakers. There is a setup man who wrote a great article on why he never uses spikes and why. I had Quad speakers and adding spikes turned them into unlistenable, my current open baffle speakers sound soooo much... | |
| PS Audio BHK lacking.. Check and make sure the amp you are using input impedance is a good match for the PS Audio preamp. If that is not a good match you will find the bass is rolled off big time. | |
| Your analysis of Analysis plus spk.cable AP cables were not designed as tone controls. Many cables color the sound from forwarding highs and upper midrange to forward and heavy bottom end with little pace. Oval 9 and the rest of the line are even from top to bottom, thus you hear your ge... |