rcrump
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| player vs. seperate dac / transport? Budrew, the Accustic Arts drive is pretty good, but it was beaten up by a hot rodded G&D Transforms UTP-1 here recently......My point is these old G&Ds can be found for 1K or so and, with a new laser most will need, they are competitive wi... | |
| Lamm M 1.2 against Tenor 300 and Boulder 2060 The Eidolons need more damping factor than any tube unit will allow, the Lamm included, to control the bass. I have heard the Tenor and prefer the 75w tube unit to the hybrid units and think you will run out of steam with the 75w OTL.....Not famil... | |
| EMM Labs DAC6 vs. latest version dCS Prefer the EMM over the DCS as at least it is musical, but prefer many redbook digital systems over both units so will side with Romy on his modified units as have never heard any combination SACD/Redbook system sound much like music..... | |
| Carbon Fibre boards for Linn? I have one of their shelves out in the garage.......It is an aluminum honeycomb with thin carbon fibre over it and I liked something else better under my amp a few years ago.....The shelf was 19" x 29" x .5" and bet it didn't weigh three pounds, e... | |
| Carbon Fibre boards for Linn? CETech is the name of the company......Looks like they are redoing their website, but they are located in the UK with a USA distributor and can't recall their name.....They make isolation bases and the like along with the LP-12 parts..... | |
| Interconnect & Power Cord f/ Sony SCD-1? You might want to check AC polarity on this unit before you go wild on power cords and interconnects as it is normally reverses polarity which normally screws up the stage and venue information......I've built a lot of reversed polarity cords for ... | |
| Dartzeel NHB-108 Here I thought it was five years ago when I heard the amp and it was only two years ago! We curmudgeons have trouble with time....... | |
| SF Line 3-- Parasound JC-1-- Thiel 7.2 Cables ? I used my own brand of cables to voice the JC-1s, but just don't know your speaker system at all so don't know if it would be a good match or not.....Shoot me an email with your location and I'll advise a local dealer where you can give the TG wir... | |
| phono cable suggestions.. HiFiFarm, curious of the tremendous differences between regular line level interconnects and phono interconnects for those manufacturers that know what they are doing? Please name a few for the great unwashed masses out here that are blindly makin... | |
| Nordost vs Maestro 2 vs Kimber Hero I prefer the Hero over the other two mentioned.......There are better wires than the Hero out there, but think you are on the right track with the Hero..... | |
| directional arrows on interconnects Oxia, some cable guys care about QC and yes I pay big bucks to have the directionality of the twisted pair set so one leg goes one way and the return goes the other. I make up a set, break it in on one of my break-in engines and document the roll ... | |
| directional arrows on interconnects Oxia, obviously you have never listened to the difference directionality makes in signal wires. Plausible explanation? Haven't got one other than the work of Duncan on micro diodes in material caused by dragging it through the die one way.....This... | |
| What is the fastest clamp? Why are you bothering with fast? Do you want it fast or do you want it good? Best sounding one I have used is the Lurne clamp which is collet affair made from brass, delrin and wool......I use this in addition to the vacuum holddown on my table..... | |
| Best power/digital cords for C E C transports. You might want to check the AC polarity on the CEC and Parasound transports as did a few mods on these units a few years ago and found they had hooked up line to neutral and vise versa.......This easy to measure and fix and is likely the problem w... | |
| What is the advantage of a balanced interconnect? Balanced will null out the 2nd harmonic and have 6db more gain....The system will be cleaner.....Used a single twisted pair and a double twisted pair of the same wire for the tests (SE vs Balanced) between the Blowtorch and JC-1s..... |