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| Tweaks when building a listening room? Some bass problems can be predicted from the room's dimensions; or, if you have not started the building process, the dimensions could be changed to those that minimize bass problems. Built-in bass traps designed by an acoustics engineer can be mo... | |
| Sound Application line conditioner experience? Bflowers,I'm glad you are enjoying your RLS-1. I hope to upgrade my RLSs to the RLS-1 soon. As for the power cords, I found that there is a wonderful synergy between the RLS and the Elrod Statement power cords. Each is addressing AC issues that th... | |
| Sound Application line conditioner experience? Bflowers, My experience with the RLS is in agreement with Teck5's. It began to open up on the third day. You can plug in some appliance into it that draws a lot of current and let it run for 3 days before doing any critical listening to your syste... | |
| Sound Application line conditioner experience? Tvad, There must be other differences, besides the cost, between the RLS and the XE-12 with RLS circuitry. The RLS was far superior in my system.Best Regards,John | |
| Sound Application line conditioner experience? Essentialaudio, I did own the Sound Application XE-12 and the Reference Line Stage at the same time and A/Bed them. There is no comparison; the Reference Line Stage is far superior to the XE-12. I sold my XE-12. I also own 2 Sound Application RLSs... | |
| Sound Application line conditioner experience? Based on Brent Rainwater's (Rainwateraudio.com) enthusiastic recommendation, I bought one of Sound Application's Reference Line Stages and two of their newer RLSs. They significantly lowered the noise floor in my three dedicated AC lines and trans... | |
| APL NWO-2.5T A Review of a Classic CD Player Stereotaipei,With the 2.5T, patience with burn-in pays off big time. As I mentioned in my review, my 2.5T began to really sing at about 250 hours on each of the 3 formats. And it continues to improve. Since then, I ran across a very effective burn... | |
| APL NWO-2.5T A Review of a Classic CD Player Stereotaipei,Puremusic, do you have similar experience during burn in?As I mentioned in my review, the treble began to open up around 160 hours of burn-in; sweetness and delicacy started to come in at 190 hours; but it wasn't until about 250 hours... | |
| APL NWO-2.5T A Review of a Classic CD Player Phaelon,We all win, including Causa_sui. We aired our differences in a respectful, civil manner. We had a dialog, not a shouting match, which shed more light than heat. I appreciated that you were both fine gentlemen.Best Regards,John | |
| APL NWO-2.5T A Review of a Classic CD Player Phaelon, There is a lot truth in your quote of Tvad's post. In particular, all owners of the NW0-1 had their players upgraded to the series 2 NWO. (To my knowledge, none were sold on the used market.) And some of these, including mine, are already... | |
| APL NWO-2.5T A Review of a Classic CD Player Causa_sui,I understand that some may prefer a more restrictive use of 'classic' than what is presented in Webster's unabridged dictionary. I can appreciate that semantic preference and we can agree to disagree. In my subjective review I provided t... | |
| APL NWO-2.5T A Review of a Classic CD Player Phaelon,My unabridged Webster's Third New International Dictionary has numerous nuanced definitions of 'classic', many of which do not explicitly imply duration or time element. For example: particularly effective, of the first class, particularly... | |
| APL NWO-2.5T A Review of a Classic CD Player causa_sui,There have been many classics in high-end audio. And when they were improved upon and were no longer the state of the art, we didn't stop calling them classics. 'A classic" is not synonymous with 'the state of the art'. If they were syno... | |
| APL NWO-2.5T A Review of a Classic CD Player French_fries,Thank you for your kind comments and for your observations about the trickle-down technology from the cost-no-object digital to the more affordable range. Such trickle-down allows more musicphiles to enjoy better musical reproduction.... | |
| APL NWO-2.5T A Review of a Classic CD Player Doug, Thank you for your kind words. But the credit goes to Alex's creation, the NWO-2.5T. It made it easier for me to hear and experience the rich fabric of the music. |