photon46
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| Best of Hearing Aids for deaf Audiophiles? Huh??? I can only relate my wife's experience. Thankfully, my hearing is still excellent at 53. She has a new set of Siemens Acuris Life digital behind the ear aids. The electronics are in a very small & light behind the ear capsule, the amplified so... | |
| How loud do you listen to your music? I get to listen to live jazz, classical, & choral music in our university's music department several times a week, and I tell you this: live music of all kinds is LOUD. it takes a lot of power to even come close to recreating a live event. Now... | |
| 2" maple shelf or 3" one:sound different? When I replaced the 1 3/4" thick maple platform under my VPI Scout with a 3" thick one, there was an improvement. It was not nearly the order of magnitude of improvement that I got going from no platform to the thinner platform though. My listenin... | |
| PS audio hca 2 feedback... I would say the differences in my system were well worth $800. Of course, the better the rest of your system resolves, the more you will hear the differences. With that caveat, I'd say that all of the problems that 10Audio.com groused about in the... | |
| New VPI Scout. Output balance question I have a hard time believing it is anything other than a cartridge related issue. When you are looking straight towards the front of the cartridge, if the cantilver is deformed only in plane/axis that's parallel to the surface of the record, you c... | |
| Budget Power Cords For Tube Mono Amps ? If you are of a mind to DIY, Cryo-Parts sells excellent quality materials for a DIY cord that will cost you about $120.00 each. I built two five foot cords with their Cryo-Max II ac cable and Furutech cryoed connectors that bowled me over with the... | |
| iTunes playback: retaining orig song gaps? Sorry, my morning caffeine hadn't kicked in yet when I read your post. Yeah, Itunes can be irritating in this respect. I've never found a way to accomplish what you want to do either. Here's hoping the new operating system they release in the spri... | |
| iTunes playback: retaining orig song gaps? Not sure what version of Itunes you're using. I go to the pull down menu in Itunes that says "Itunes" on left left of the toolbar and select "preferences," then select "advanced," then 'burning." You now have a menu that should give you what you w... | |
| Plextor closes it's doors to CD and DVD products We've used numerous LaCie burners, hard drives, and monitors at work for years. We're an all Mac environment and LaCie provides good support for Mac, which isn't the case for many Plextor products. I've had very good results burning CDr's with the... | |
| CJ vs. BAT vs. THOR preamps, who's best? Blindjim, John's advice to report the incident to Ayre might help the guys at AV South realize they could improve their sales techniques. I had a poor experience there myself years ago. I wanted to audition an Arcam 9 cd player, but I was told the... | |
| I have Maggie MG 1.6's - need amp advice It's a question of more factors than just watts. When I had Maggie 1.6's I used Adcom, Luxman, Belles HotRod 150a, and PS Audio's HCA-2 amplifiers which were all rated basically the same power output. All but one were absolutely mediocre with the ... | |
| Empire 698 + AT440mla = vinyl bliss for $500 Yep, a well set up Empire is a sleeper among tables, they are under rated in general. I had a 598III that was not embarrased in comparison with my VPI Scout. They're a great way to get into vinyl at a bargain price. | |
| Is a subwoofer 'overkill?' Sounds to me like there isn't optimal integration. When crossovers, phase & level are correctly adjusted, there should be no distinct impression of bass heaviness or low frequency accentuation, just a sense of greater acoustic space, a clearer... | |
| do burnt CD copys sound as good as originals? Shadorne, if you'd care to do some reading, Genesisloudspeakers.com has a twenty four page technical article on this issue. Or you can just Google "White paper on black cds," it will be the first hit to come up. The author goes into rather exhaust... | |
| Question about Azur 640c Version 1 and a DAC When I was looking for a transport, Spearit Sound told me to take a chance and try using the 640C as a transport. They said they absolutely thought it would smoke pricier units they could sell me. I was also curious if it's onboard dac was up to t... |