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| Best Gunshots There is an "s" in Kitsch. | |
| Most Honest Audio Magazine? Honesty does not come into it. Altruism does not exist. They are all businesses or have an agenda. As a review mag you need to make some kind of trade-off between being credible so that you get read, and supporting your advertisers so that you can... | |
| 1 million dollar speaker made by Kharma Now, I could buy an underground room and share it with a large pair of speakers, or spend the million on buying an island in Fiji. It really is hard to take that choice seriously Lotuss4 - by the way, does this mean you own a series 4 Lotus? I use... | |
| Audio & the Emperor’s new clothes. Classicaudio - maybe the issue is just symantic - my kids reckon anything remotely good is "awesome" - just part of the language equivalent of inflation. | |
| The fallacy of ac treatment Elizabeth - while current capability is an issue, one of the reasons why a dedicated feed works is that there are less connections on the line to pick up noise, and so one of the benefits of using the air conditioner's outlet is that it is the onl... | |
| directional cable? Many of the above indicate different reasons why cables are directional, but in reality there are multiple reasons - and I have had experience of each. The metallurgy answer is correct and this occurs as the copper is drawn. If the cable manufactu... | |
| POWER: conditioners vs filters vs cords Alberta_steve - I tried the Audio Prism Quietlines and found them to make no difference at all. I think their main action is to stop your in-wall power cable from acting as an antennae. In my case I have done a lot to provide a dedicated clean pow... | |
| Shelf Material Dekay, right now they are still suspended and I prefer them that way. Yes the Vibrapods are sandwiched between the Corian and the component. Ghthirteen, I have tried the Vibrapods with other shelves made of glass, marble, perspex and mdf and found... | |
| B&O, overpriced artistic piece of audio? Onhwy61 - the answer to your question is YES! In this case I bet Bemop would rapidly reduce his listening to music and therefore lose touch with his soul - much to big a risk to take IMO. Instead I would prescribe an upgrade to that front-end. All... | |
| Shelf Material OK - I know I have gone around in circles on this, but can now conclude my findings until some of the stuff I have ordered from the US arrives - probably two weeks time. Suspension - much less resonance than conventional supports, but need to use ... | |
| Shelf Material My understanding is that Corian is made of very dense acrylic polymer. It is a good deal heavier, harder and more rigid than perspex, and comes standard in 12mm thick sheets. I am spanning about 19 inches supporting a 40 lb CD Transport and there ... | |
| Shelf Material I have played around with the hard rubber footers and Vibrapods a bit more now and my vote is now with the Vibrapods. The hard rubber footers are a bit dark sounding, and may explain Recres not liking Corian. Corian is definitely not perfect - the... | |
| Genesis Digital Lense I found the lens to improve resolution to a level that going back was unthinkable - but Rec has a point re the new standards. | |
| Shelf Material Megasam, you are right that the range of footers have a wide range of effects on the sound, but if significant vibration is getting to them then all they do is move the problem around the spectrum. But as my quest continues and I am reducing audib... | |
| Speaker cable termination Personally I would send them back to Audioquest. Otherwise the Audioquest spades are amongst the best I have heard and very cheap compared with the very best spades. |