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| Quads or Maggies? Hi Gregm. I have always had something of a sweet spot for the 63s, and I must admit, have not liked as many Maggies as I have disliked. When my wife first met me I brought her home and there, one third across the lounge, stood a pair of 63s. Someh... | |
| Quads or Maggies? Just to add to Detlof's excellent advice - I have found that the reaction to Maggies is often a "love or hate" thing. Something to do with its particular (slight) coloration bugging some people but being irrelevant to others. You have to try them,... | |
| Is it ALWAYS necessary to understand words of song? Slightly off topic, but I must admit I don't really listen to the words in music in order to get what is being said. To me music is about emotion and the poetry in the words is all that gets through to me when i am grooving to music. To focus on w... | |
| Which support for underneath CD player? I don't have the right words for it, but there are some important distinctions in my head between the options described above. The most notable is a choice between high mass and low mass. Getting something that is high mass and damped is easy (ie.... | |
| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit I have not come across a cable that gets the start, body and decay of musical events so exquisitely right as the OTA cable. It is this kind of immediacy and natural energy that is so obviously present in live music and that yet so few systems come... | |
| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit Hi SeadMethinks you are right about it being mellower - but that is not what I heard initially. I have kept quiet while waiting for the break-in to occur. After break-in, the sound of the system was very laid-back using the multiple runs, and fail... | |
| what speakers do the best "disappearing act"?? Every speaker I have had for the last 15 years or so has achieved what you want. The trick is mainly in room treatment and speaker positioning. | |
| Which support for underneath CD player? Ernie - the rollerblocks were similar to using cones, just better, for me - but the Neuance was much better again. It is true some components benefit more than others - for example I find the excellent construction of Sonic Frontiers equipment mea... | |
| Wadia, Audio Aero, Meridian, BAT and BOW I managed to get mine at around $3,000 US, so the $2,800 is believeable. And I cannot divulge how I got that price but it was at importer's cost. | |
| Wadia, Audio Aero, Meridian, BAT and BOW Sorry Ken1. Gregm was referring to my obsessive hunt for the secrets to vibration isolation, not my knowledge of CD players. I have not heard the EMC-1, but do own both the Audio Aero Capitole 24/192 and the Res Audio CD55. Both are just great for... | |
| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit Just to throw another spanner in the works!I had more OTA than I needed so I built a set of cables using three lengths pos and three lengths neg on the bass, and two lengths pos and two lengths neg on the panels (of my Martin-Logans) to see what m... | |
| Wadia, Audio Aero, Meridian, BAT and BOW I too have a Capitole 24/192. Makes the 860 sound very lacking in palpability, seeming to just give you the details and not the organic reality. The Capitole is wonderful, but I must admit my Res Audio CD55 comes awfully close for much less money. | |
| Best source for 220V used power cords? Cjpark. I live in New Zealand where we use 230V, and I buy cables from the US and put local plugs on them, and then get them tested at high voltages to ensure they are safe. I still have to put up with the fact that the cables are illegal in this ... | |
| Is the "ST" AT T optical digital connection dead? I found ST, when using a good ST-type cable - not the standard Siecor stuff, outperformed every coaxial or balanced cable I have ever heard, and the balanced cables had a consistent unmusical midband. The ST was faster and less dirty sounding with... | |
| Symposium Roller Blocks vs Aurious under SACD ... Oh yeah, Subaruguru. I have travelled some new circles recently and used different rollerball products. But I am back to E-A-R feet and Neuance shelves, and the music just speaks for itself. I did not like the Aurios at all. If using a very heavy ... |