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| Opinions on what my next step should be Emil, in your position I would put a decent cord on everything, sort out your vibration isolation and treat the room. Unless you attend to all the major variables you will be throwing money away upgrading your components. Next on the list would be... | |
| Best Interconnects for under $300 pair Carl, the "Red" refers to my hair colour (not my politics, regardless of how the NZ Govt may come across in the US from time to time), and in keeping with my hair colour it is sometimes the only colour I see - but I never mean it personally and en... | |
| Sonic Frontiers Line 3 vs. BAT VK-5i If you like the VK-5i then it seems to me you will not like the Line 3. The VK5i involves you in the music and is forward in the true sense of that term (ie. not bright, but images are in front of the speakers) which is a matter of taste. When you... | |
| 12AX7 tubes for Counterpoint NP400 My favourite affordable (relative term I know) 12AX7s are; Amperex, Telefunken and Mullard. Sure they cost more than a Sovtek, but in the context of the price of an amp the money is very well spent. In my system I find the Amperex is best, having ... | |
| MY Sidewinder AC cord progress: My experience with various power cords is somewhat limited because so little is stocked here in NZ, but I have played around extensively with what I could get my hands on. Here are some random responses to the previous posts. Saying it is better t... | |
| Best Interconnects for under $300 pair Carl, the fellow's name is Richard Barton, and as at December 1999 was living in France, and was available at "rh.barton@btinternet.com". I found this out through a lecturer at Auckland University, one Denis Taylor, who added that "I have built si... | |
| Amp stands- Do they work? Carl's problem is he does not suffer fools easily. But of the two problems implicit in this statement, I prefer Carl's any day. | |
| Best Interconnects for under $300 pair Carl, it seems the gentleman with the vertical cylindrical array of ribbons has left this fair land for the bleak shores of England. But, I have a lead on a gentleman who worked with him a bit on the project and he may know the new contact details... | |
| Amp stands- Do they work? Albertporter, I finally got around to reading your post again and thinking about it. I think I understand what you said. I interpret your answer as saying that with so many variables at play we ought to attack the problem by observation followed b... | |
| Audio Alchemy power supplies. It is going back a few years so it is hard to be specific. Not being a wizz with electronics I stuck to a standard design and decent materials. Good as the DLC is, I don't think it warrants anything more than the following. The transformer was 150... | |
| Opinions on Placette passive pre I use the Placette Remote Volume Control, which is a passive pre without any buffering or switching, in one of my systems. Like most passives it is difficult to match with a solid state amp without losing some dynamics. But with my valve amps it i... | |
| HiFi dealers & audiophile wife problems Tenniswino, you are a sick puppy, but I do feel some slight pangs of admiration. | |
| Audio Alchemy power supplies. I built my own power supply for the DLC and the improvement was very significant. The power station 1 is way below what is required for any competent preamp. By the way the same applies to the MSB DAC. | |
| Help for a Cheat!! If I remember rightly, you queue up the audio CD-R as if you were about to record on it, and then prise open the tray, replace it with the computer CD, close the tray and hit the appropriate button. | |
| CD player or Transport and DAC One could have a religious argument over two boxes versus one and get nowhere. There are trade-offs involved in each design but there are other more significant sources of the differences in sound you encounter with CD players. I reckon you should... |