redkiwi
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| Shelf Material Caterham1700 - thanks for your generosity, if you will allow me to be a little generous in return. I will send you an email directly. Recres - I have heard similar comments about Corian, but am curious to try because I think it will ping less than... | |
| Shelf Material OOPS - it was Onhwy61 that suggested the suspension idea - thanks Highway Man! | |
| Shelf Material The Corian hasn't arrived yet so a report on that will have to wait, and it sounds like I should go directly for the Maple rather than try a native NZ wood - thanks Albert. BUT - I bought some 100lb strain guage nylon from the local sports shop to... | |
| What makes / defines an audiophile ? You're still the most fun on Audiogon Carl - good talking to ya mate! | |
| Speaker Cable Matching. Unfortunately I don't have any experience with the 4VS - just the 4TC and 8TC, which bleach harmonics throughtout the spectrum a little, and have a smooth sheen which tends slightly to a glare in the mid to upper midrange. Having said that they ar... | |
| INTERCONNECT-advice from knowers! Carl and Trelja - I don't know about this mag idea. These guys are businesses first, journalists second, and then audiophiles. Sure, they are not lawyers, but still, I find they are merely a good read. For example, I find TAS is one of the better ... | |
| Speaker Cable Matching. My experiences suggest that when bi-amping or bi-wiring, you will get the most coherent result if you stick to the same cable, same cable length and same connectors. Notwithstanding this you may be wishing to deliberately alter the relative charac... | |
| Cables and lengths If you are going to have a screen between your speakers you may as well put the components there too and buy better cables than the DH Labs (which congeal the sound), because the lengths are shorter. | |
| What makes / defines an audiophile ? Sadly I think it is in fact New Zealand that holds the cup for politically correct stupidity. I will take your advice and stay away from the woman thing (by the way are you aloud to call them women in the US? - here it is OK still, but never call ... | |
| The fallacy of ac treatment Onhwy61, I agree that power cords around US$250 are very adequate for most systems. As to the ones costing 5 times more, I agree I would not buy them on 'spec and would probably not even try them - without a credible recommendation. I have always ... | |
| The fallacy of ac treatment Onhwy61, I am not sure I am understanding your point. You seem to be pooh-poohing specialty power cables and saying that the claimed beneficial effects defy "understood science". But surely the understood science would include such concepts as the... | |
| Shelf Material I will look for some Maple butchers block Albert but I doubt I can get it here. I have seen such blocks made out of NZ native timbers, mainly in Rimu - how hard/soft is Maple? I have always heard good things about the Vibraplane, and the item at m... | |
| What makes / defines an audiophile ? I guess that's why we have the America's Cup. With such a weak dollar we can't afford the airfares - so we all start boat-building to get out of here - and suddenly we are good at something. You are right, it all starts with something - in our cas... | |
| What makes / defines an audiophile ? Hi Carl - I hoped I would draw you into some dialogue. Thanks, by the way, for explaining what I meant. Perhaps it is the obsessing over details that really defines an audiophile after all. As you suggest, I was musing that maybe non-audiophiles h... | |
| Shelf Material Only the Townshend are available in this part of the world, and they are not light compared with a light rigid shelf. I hear them as slowing things up. I am not familiar with the 855 so it is difficult to comment further on the problem you are exp... |