rcprince
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| Any phono sections with adjustments on fly/front? The old ARC SP-11 (and probably the 10 too) had loading you could adjust with a knob on the front panel. Probably a little pricey, though, even used. | |
| mas black speaker cables/URGENT Can't comment on the speaker cable, but I do agree with Bigkidz, I used a 40 foot run of their black interconnect for many years and it was a good, solid cable. Its errors were more of subtraction (i.e., loss of low level detail) than any particul... | |
| Why didn't the DAD format take off?? Greg, I hadn't realized that. They're DADs, not DVD-As? If so, I'll look into them. | |
| Eidolon, Amati Homage, or Watt? I agree that the Avalon is on a higher level than the others mentioned, but I also agree they'll probably need more to make them sing than the C-J can give them. I will say that I have never been a fan of Wilson Audio speakers, but the Watt-Puppy ... | |
| DG Recordings The CDs aren't crap, and you don't have a hearing problem. Many DGs can sound fine, many can sound awful. My complaint about DG has always been their multi-miking and (with their output from the early digital days particularly) an overall bright s... | |
| Why didn't the DAD format take off?? I think it was probably a misreading of where the majors were going to go, as the product itself is quite good, and Mike Hobson was banking on the fact that there were tons of DVD players out there for people to play DADs on. He knew SACD was in t... | |
| Ugliest speaker ever? I'll nominate those Tennessee Sound Company speakers from over 10 years ago that looked like oil drilling rigs (I was only kidding that they looked "cool" in the other thread). And those Unicorn speakers mentioned above really didn't look great in... | |
| speaker cable upgrade for Inner sound ESL amp? Haven't heard them in my system, but have heard the speaker cables sounding REALLY good in an Innersound system at a friend's and have a strong recommendation for the speaker cables (not the interconnects, surprisingly) from another friend whose e... | |
| speaker cable upgrade for Inner sound ESL amp? I second Detlof on this one, the Innersound cables are very good and cheap as well! | |
| Coolest looking speaker ever ? Gotta go with the Pods from outer space, the mbl 101's, with the B&W Nautilus close behind. Anyone remember the Tennessee Sound Company speakers, which looked like gold or copper spheres held in an oil rig? | |
| KT90 VS KT88 I'm thinking of dynamic impact on transients. It's really not that subtle, honest! An orchestral climax can include all instruments in all frequency ranges. Some equipment might emphasize the higher frequency portion of the sound more than the res... | |
| KT90 VS KT88 Depends on the circuit they're in. In my JA80s, the KT90s were thinner harmonically, brighter and lacked the dimensionality of NOS KT88s; punch was about the same, although the brighter sound of the KT90s made the high-frequency leading edge of tr... | |
| Jadis Defy 7 info-EL34s?? I'm not as familiar with the recent marks of this amp, but the French Jadis website says that it was originally designed for use with EL-34s, but the 6550s, even plain old GEs, sounded better. I would think you'd have to have someone change the in... | |
| What is the most decadent, most self indulgent-- I guess it was when I bought my Graham 1.5T (actually, traded a pair of ARC M300/Classic 150s for it) tonearm, since at the time I had a Well Tempered TT which couldn't use it and no particular prospect of getting a replacement for the TT. It was ... | |
| Any comments on Walker High Def Links??? I agree with JD, I have the Mk I version of the HDLs and found it does a slight but noticable improvement in eliminating high frequency hash. The designer of my speakers and I even used a spectrum analyzer of some sort on the tweeter with the same... |