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| Who is the WORST Audio Shop? Lyrics attitude and rather, policy, is to qualify a good buyer in a couple seconds. This mostly lead to a maybe not always pleasant encounter. I understand the need to stop wasting time, to a certain extend, but their sales policy puts off many po... | |
| Fuses that matter. >>Avatar is the AMR North American distributor that I contacted. Still no reply.Ditto, after sending a couple of reminder emails and voice mails I gave up and ordered Liquid Nanos, hopefully bettering my HiFi Supremes. | |
| Conrad Johnson LP 70/140/275 Tube rolling Reviving the thread as I would to try out some for my LP140 as well. Myles, did you end up with non stock in your GAT and/or LP140?Any other LP140 owner have had great experience? (some amps reflect less the character of the new tube; e.g. tube ro... | |
| Optimal length for digital cables: 1m or 1.5m? Mea culpa Al! I meant between my Cary 306 that I use as transporter and the Eastern Electric MiniMax DAC Plus (which fortunately has the BNC connector as well). Thanks for the link.If I may ask you a similar question but for the analogue signal xf... | |
| Need feedback for 6k budget | |
| Recommendations for 5k upgrade | |
| Two-channel is inferior to multi-channel, no? Well put Frank![soap box on]>>Things blowing up, jets, cars, and other sound effects, fine.Sad to see (pun intended) that many of the current movies are just a cacophony of latest sound effects and done over a zillion times but now bigger, 3... | |
| Recommendations for 5k upgrade Vhiner,I will, as mentioned, I am looking for used digitial cables up to $800. In fact, I have a Valhalla digital loaner, see which one comes close to it. Which other digital cable did you compare before settling on the Zitron Python? In my HT I h... | |
| Nordost Vishnu or Shunyata Copperhead Power Cord >>Lars Kristensen himself was there giving a demo, he stated that using 1 Odin to the power distributor, with all Blue Heaven power cables (Magus rebadged), will outcompete an all Valhalla system.Anyone tried this kind of experiment, e.g. pu... | |
| Metrum Octave versus Eastern Electric DAC / Thankful: would you give us an update of the comparisons between the EE MinMax Dac Plus with Dexa opamps, the Lampizator Level 4 and the PS Audio PWD MKII? Thanks!To other EE MiniMax owners: do you have a good experience upgrading other componen... | |
| Recommendations for 5k upgrade Update:Following your comments and great advice I have upgraded1.) Transport: to a Cary 306, more detailed, very sweet sound, I am having problem with the upsampler (which may be defective, have emailed Cary). A big step up indeed, thanks to all b... | |
| What is my weak est link...? Suggestions please. >>I would opine that none of the "audiophiles" here was actually helpful to 689 at all. Viridian, this is close to rudeness. Please think again before you put off more people than you already did, especially when you yourself have started ma... | |
| Recommendations for upgrade from 5.1 to 7.1 The idea of merging 2 channel and home theater is that I have spend quite a bit on the 2 channel system for component upgrades (in the last 15 months, the only remaining components was the pair of the Dunlavy SC-IV speakers and the speaker cable) ... | |
| Recommendations for upgrade from 5.1 to 7.1 Point taken, I will hence stick to 5.1 and either go for all in wall speaker setup for this room or merge the HT system with my main 2 channel system in the larger room and put a pool table in the den when the kids are in college.As for the curren... | |
| Krell Showcase 7.1 VS Classe SSP 60 /Gdush: So I guess the most economic way going forward would be to upgrade from my HTS to the Showcase 7.1 with an Oppo 93 or 95 ? I had planned the latter already with the acquisition of a 3D HDTV. I just do not want to miss out on the sonic qual... |