redkiwi
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| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit My OTA cables are now back on the woofers after burn-in, and settled down, and I take back any of my previous reservations. The sound is much better than garden hose on the woofers and OTA on the electrostatic. The garden hose sounds ponderous and... | |
| "Pace", it's importance for enjoyment? Hi Yoh. We may of course be talking at cross-purposes, and you mean something different when you say pace. Your last post suggests to me that you mean a wider issue of "musicality", which I suggest includes PRAT, but also includes smoothness and n... | |
| "Pace", it's importance for enjoyment? Lack of PRAT is what leads to dissatisfied audiophiles. Seeking more detail, more bass, more soundstage, smoother highs, all that stuff, would not drive us to distraction so much if our systems could just "boogie down" regardless of that other stu... | |
| PC Challenge Test Results Any such experiment with audio gear is personal and contextual. In the end Jhunter decided his next dollars would go on a sub rather than PCs. That is the significant outcome of the experiment brothers and sisters - for Jhunter in his room with hi... | |
| Monoblocks or upgrade to larger amp? I must have been in a bad mood with my earlier posts - sorry about that. Knowing both these amps, it does not gel with me to consider the SA250 as just being a more powerful SA100. Secondly there is a significant difference between the SA250 Mk3 a... | |
| Monoblocks or upgrade to larger amp? Viridian, you wrote "The difference in power is very negligable, any of you slide rule types out there want to calculate the power difference in db for us?" Somehow I cannot find the point you claim to have made about sound quality being the decid... | |
| Rudeness With 'net Sales Thanks Cornfedboy. I have had similar generous offers of help in the past from Jadem6, Albertporter and Brulee, and it means a lot to me to be offered such help - but I suppose I shy away from taking advantage of their friendship. Why would I risk... | |
| How can power cords make a difference? I have had a psychologist friend of mine look at the posts made by 702 here. It is perhaps unfair of me to quote his diagnosis fully, particularly the bits about the kinds of events in his past that might have caused 702's dysfunctional interactio... | |
| Rudeness With 'net Sales I tend to agree that buying on eBay from those with large numbers of transactions to their name has generally been a good experience. But being repeatedly treated like an ex-con when I make a polite enquiry irritates me. Obviously these guys have ... | |
| Monoblocks or upgrade to larger amp? I would have a bit more respect for the opinions of the dB freaks if you had actually heard a SA100 and SA250 in a few systems. I don't give a toss which one has the more power, the SA250 is a significantly better power amplifier. | |
| Monoblocks or upgrade to larger amp? Believe me, the SA250 will run the Dynaudios much better than the SA100 (have tried these combinations). As suggested above, if you buy another SA100 then bi-amp, don't bridge. You will also find the SA250 sounds different than the SA100 - and the... | |
| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit Try twisting them lightly Dekay. I find that untwisted, they sound a bit like the Magnan cables, albeit with much better PRAT than the Magnans. I think my cables are pretty much run in now, and I found that images were a bit "wafty" as a friend of... | |
| How important is PC for CD vs Amp Pre The biggest bang for me, in my experience, is making sure every cord in the system is decent - that is, no stock cords. I surmise that one of the reasons for this is the PC is trying to eliminate noise - therefore a decent cord everywhere is a bet... | |
| Will Internet Distroy High End ? Hi Stokjoc. As it happens I just posted the following to start a thread, and which probably belongs here..."I have decided to go back to dealing with dealers I know, or can meet face to face. I have grown sick of the rudeness of sellers, in partic... | |
| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit I largely agree with Dekay's findings, but came off using Coincident ICs and Wireworld Gold Eclipse speaker cables. I have other cables from Kimber, XLO, Siltech and Straightwire (probably some others lurking in the cupboard I have forgotten too).... |