redkiwi
Responses from redkiwi
| Shelf Material - Neuance Alexc, I find the E-A-R feet to be even-handed and better than any stock rubber feet, and more neutral than Vibrapods. Certainly, I prefer to use them rather than any of the cones I possess, now that I use welded steel racks supporting Neuance she... | |
| resolution audio Megasam - someone somewhere here suggested using heads of spoons (removed from their stems) sitting in Vibrapods, and then glass marbles sitting in them. Simple enough so I tried it. Believe it or not they sounded better if I sat the spoon head in... | |
| How can power cords make a difference? Just want to say thanks for all the negative votes for my last post, since it matched my expectation that only the voiceless weasels would respond. 702, you are right this expectation thing works! | |
| How can power cords make a difference? Thanks for the advice guys. But Dekay, since it would invalidate the warranty if I fixed the incompetently designed power supplies in my components (no doubt mr702 could send me instructions, but not being of his stature I would no doubt fail to i... | |
| How can power cords make a difference? I just want to report I took out all my good power cords and located the power cords supplied by the manufacturer for each piece of gear I had, and put them in. I then let them burn-in for three days. The sound was horrid - excruciating amounts of... | |
| Sonic Frontiers Ultrajitterbug Change that name to Wisehead. | |
| resolution audio No I haven't Megasam. It is not easy to try stuff like that in NZ without buying it from the US first. With enough recommendations for the Aurios MIBs, then that may have to be what I do. I find cones to be a bit of a band-aid and prefer to concen... | |
| Plinius M16 or Plinius CD LAD Hi Radman and AWA. I have only heard these two preamps in a friend's system (but had the M16 in my system for a few weeks a couple of years ago). I don't doubt you heard what you say Radman, but my take was different. The M16 sounded very nice thr... | |
| resolution audio Streetdaddy, if the CD50 does not sound too laid-back for you the best upgrade is to remove the feet (which just unscrew from the bottom) and place four small E-A-R polymer feet under it. This will be more even-handed than cones. I only mention co... | |
| Sonic Frontiers Ultrajitterbug I agree with Avguygeorge. The Genesis is way better, and it improved the Theta combination by a large amount. I don't doubt your experience Jmcgrogan. I am sure the UJB works in some circumstances. I cannot remember what ins/outs I tried, but I pr... | |
| Looking for smooth SS pre amp The buffered Placette at about $2,000 would be the pick of the bunch that I have tried. SS, but no nasty sounds in sight. | |
| Coincident or LAT or Madrigal While I rate the Coincident highly, I find the 508-24 to be a tad laid-back, the JPS to be a tad forwrad, and the Coincident to be a tad laid-back. Hence changing from JPS to Coincident may not take the Meridian in the right direction - but only y... | |
| resolution audio I have not heard the Mark Levinson 39. The CD50 is up there with the best, very neutral and fast, but is laid-back - certainly in comparison with the Wadia and Theta players. The CD 50 tends to need livening up with cones in many systems. The CD55... | |
| Sonic Frontiers Ultrajitterbug Placed in between my Theta Data III and Gen Va DAC, the Ultrajitterbug degraded the sound markedly. | |
| SS versus Tubes Just a wee comment on the bass issue. I use tubes at home and ss at my beach house. I have played around with why I like it this way and not the reverse. In the end I have concluded that:At home the ss amps tend to be so fast in the bass, the bass... |