redkiwi
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| Equipment Break-in: Fact or Fiction I will try and answer it Ben - not because I know the answer, but because my experience of break in and different people's opinions on it seem to converge on a particular conclusion, in my mind.First, I believe that both component and psychologica... | |
| Best Dark Sounding Amp For Bright Speakers? Can I just make a request that they be red socks until after we have retained the Americas Cup? | |
| Diana Krall's New CD "Live in Paris"???? I rest my case. Tomryan, knowing his jazz, sees DK fumbling about in a jazz genre full of greater talents. Carlabarla is turned onto jazz for the first time by the accessibility of what DK has to offer, and will (hopefully) lead Carlabarla into th... | |
| Best Dark Sounding Amp For Bright Speakers? The new SA102 from Plinius is worth a try. An excellent amp, but Peter Thompson voices them with Shahinian speakers - and so they tend to work best with metal dome tweeters and need quite 'open' sounding cables. But if you get the balance right th... | |
| Diana Krall's New CD "Live in Paris"???? I recall a similar debate here on Audiogon a couple of years ago. The issue then, and seemingly now, is that your opinion of DK tends to reflect your frame of reference. If your thing is female singers of popular music - then DK is pretty good. Bu... | |
| Your ONE all time favorite love song? Mejames - great choice. 15 yrs old and playing air guitar to that song played on my first stereo - memories that will never fade. I haven't heard that song for a long time but I can still play that guitar solo in my head anytime. | |
| Equipment Break-in: Fact or Fiction And are we just arguing about how many angels fit on the head of a pin? Which ever it is that is burning in, the point is we have to be careful to spend time with components before we make judgements. This is what makes this hobby so hard, and why... | |
| those F'n price stickers on jewel cases... Woohoo! I can come out of the closet. I have always hated, detested, loathed those stickers. How could someone deface the art of a cd or lp cover with a damned sticker? I am not remotely the anal sort, but there is something about those stickers t... | |
| Are silver coated cables a bunch of hype? And it is good to see you are still here Albert, and Jadem6 on this same thread too. I have been too busy work-wise to visit here recently, but hope to rectify that. Twl, you are right in your observations on conductivity and it had not occurred t... | |
| Equipment Break-in: Fact or Fiction Being a true scientist, I do not need a scientific explanation in order to observe something happening. Here's a little experience I had with a cable, from which you can draw any darn conclusion you like. I was putting a new system together and us... | |
| Are silver coated cables a bunch of hype? I could be wrong, but I thought I read some years back that one of the key reasons for coating copper with silver was to eliminate problems of copper being corroded by certain formulations of Teflon. I know that Teflon/Copper cables exist, so perh... | |
| Plinius Mkll - Integrated amp One thing you have to be careful about when auditioning Plinius gear - they take around 4 months to run in!! No kidding. During the 4 months the power amps will sound pleasingly forward and lively, but a bit rough and grainy, perhaps shouty on voc... | |
| thoghts about isolation. ... and, of course, you have no commercial connections to the purveyors of these products... | |
| thoghts about isolation. Audiotweak, if a platform dissipates energy, then would it not be inappropriate to regard it as providing some isolation?If the only changes are amplitude and frequency, then if a platform reduces the amplitude of the energy, might it not be inapp... | |
| Best Power Cord I just want to reiterate Avguy's advice. Don't accept anyone's recommendation of a single cord without trying some others. I keep a decent quantity of four different brands of power cables around, simply because they all sound different (not neces... |