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| Ordered Visaton B200 for open baffle. Am I alone? Yes, damped open baffle. I went this way initially because of the aesthetics (WAF). When I shift the Visaton B200 to a large open baffle board with no cross-over filtering, I don't think I am gaining noticeable amounts of immediacy or detail, or h... | |
| Ordered Visaton B200 for open baffle. Am I alone? I am using Visaton B200s in an open baffle design. But the speakers look like a conventional narrow box speaker from the front and side. But the back is open and is covered with a removable speaker grill. The inside is heavily lined with acoustic ... | |
| To cryo or not to cryo Yes - cryo does benefit copper and brass for the purposes of better sound. Gold, silver and palladium appears to me to benefit little or even get worse in some cases. As Chris Ven Haus reports plated conductors are also a mixed bag.The naysayers a... | |
| To cryo or not to cryo I don't personally see the opinions as cancelling each other out. The problem comes when you talk to electrical engineers, the not so smart ones, that think their models are more than just an approximation of reality. If they believe their 'charac... | |
| Read Archives: Advice on Dedicated Line install I have done a few installations of dedicated lines. Everytime we do it we connect cable to the breaker box and run the cable naked through the corridors to the stereo, put a receptacle on it and then test combinations. This is an important step an... | |
| Telling Left from Right on unlabeled RCA cables Play some orchestral music, and look for the violins on the left and the double basses on the right. Almost foolproof. | |
| Behringer DEQ2496: Ease of Use I found it to unacceptably degrade the sound in my system and what it did do to flatten response was not that beneficial in my room. Taking it out, the sound was more natural, smoother and more transparent. I concluded that flat response was benef... | |
| For Diana & Cassandra fans Yep, Rendezvous is great. But if you are into Jazz females, Shirley Horn is the outstanding singer of our age, head and shoulders, no question. This woman stands amongst Ella, Sarah and Billie and adds to that some of the best jazz piano around. I... | |
| Anyone here a Terry Callier fan?... I have been a keen follower of Terry's music. Having had my entire collection stolen a few years ago, I am only back up to 800 CDs now. I rebought the Callier albums I couldn't live without - Speak Your Peace, Time Peace and The New Folk Sound. Th... | |
| squeezebox vs sonos Interesting. I far prefer the Squeezebox interface. The Squeezebox is not high end out of the audio jacks unless you get inside and modify it, which is not as hard as it sounds. Removing the output IC with clippers and taking the signal directly f... | |
| 25' balanced ic that a mere mortal can afford? Surely he didn't mean running 25 feet from turntable to preamp... | |
| Anti-cables alternatives I don't use the anti-cables, but yes I do find bare cable or enamelled cable to perform very well in some circumstances and to be more naturally dynamic and more neutral than the effect of poly whatsit or teflon. Absorbing vibration is an issue bu... | |
| some simple questions about cables. a) Yesb) No - XLRs are used for balanced cables, RCAs for unbalanced cables which are also called single-endedc) Single-ended means unbalanced and will be terminated with RCAsd) Let's wait till someone that knows these products well can answer you... | |
| 25' balanced ic that a mere mortal can afford? Apogee Wyde Eye - a lot better than the Canare when I tried both - they have a 10m pair with gold pinned Neutriks. | |
| Beginner/ Starter cables audio metallurgy GA-Zero ICs are outstanding value - look in the auctions |