raquel
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| Speaker cable made in USA? Schipo:With all due respect, you are misinformed. The better cable brands are proprietary designs - again, some are enormously complex and very difficult to manufacture. I'm not here to defend the audio cable industry - there are indeed cable bran... | |
| Speaker cable made in USA? Schipo: Many cables of the high-end variety are remarkably complex and require extreme expertise and tooling to manufacture. | |
| Speaker cable made in USA? Few cable brands make their own product - Kimber, Transparent and Cardas do, but they are the exception. Most cable companies are a guy at his computer when he gets home from his day job who contracts out production to Belden, which would be U.S. ... | |
| Revel Salon vs Vandersteen 5A Irvrobinson:Fair enough - I respect reluctance to drink the koolade, so to speak. There's so much of it in high-end audio and it's lamentable. One doesn't need gobs of money to obtain a no-feedback amp. The VAC Renaissance 140/140 Mk. III monobloc... | |
| Revel Salon vs Vandersteen 5A Not to belabor the point, but an ARC amp likely would not sound so different, as ARC uses copious amounts of global feedback in its amp circuits and pentodes for output tubes (ARC = great preamps and boring amps). The VAC Renaissance amps have a f... | |
| Long Cables w/Short Speaker Cable or Vice Versa? Almarg is correct. And you should have no difficulty finding 15' runs of interconnects - there are almost always a lot of used long interconnects available at any given time on Audiogon (and they're usually cheaper than speaker cables, which use a... | |
| Revel Salon vs Vandersteen 5A No, Irvrobinson, I don't need manufacturer ad copy to educate me about hi-fi equipment. With all due respect, you do seem to have bought what Japanese receiver manufacturers were saying back in '76 about the benefits of transistors and what Philli... | |
| Revel Salon vs Vandersteen 5A Irvrobinson:With regard to amplifiers, global feedback is indeed an issue and I ask whether you have heard no global feedback amps like DarTZeel or Ayre (or no-feedback tube designs). Rowland went with a no global feedback design with his new 625 ... | |
| Revel Salon vs Vandersteen 5A No Docks, I sold all of the lower range stuff to your sister (which she likes real good). You're welcome. | |
| Revel Salon vs Vandersteen 5A I owned the original Salons for three years. I have only heard the Vandy 5A's once at a dealer and cannot express an opinion. Comments like those of Mcreyn are common about the Salons. I likewise thought the Salons lacked life and soul the first f... | |
| Is age bad for solid state amps? While they tend to be reliable, output transistors can and do fail. The following is a useful summary of the issues (note: the British term for "tube" is "valve"):"Transistors also have their fair share of problems, and there are some things that ... | |
| Do speaker wires degrade over time ? If the Transparent cables have network boxes, then there is very likely degradation, as the parts they use in the network boxes are shamelessly cheap and can degrade significantly over time. More generally, if the shielding on IC's or speaker cabl... | |
| Coincident Dragon Amplifier I'm biased because I've owned VAC Renaissance amps for over ten years, but the VAC Renaissance 70/70 (either Mk. III or Signature). It's 65 watts/channel, with very stiff power supplies and excellent output trannies, making it sound a lot more pow... | |
| Sonus Faber Stradivari amp: X600.5 or X1000.5 ? It sounds like you intend to listen at very high volumes. The Strads can go loud, but you're talking about volumes well in excess of 110 db. You should talk to Sumiko (assuming that you live in the U.S.) or Sonus Faber to determine whether the dri... | |
| Is age bad for solid state amps? The above comments are generally correct, as is the comment that an amp made in 1998 is not old. I would add, however, that age with solid-state amps is more of an issue than it is with tube amps. The output transistors in solid-state amps can go ... |