redkiwi
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| Sound-stage, imaging, focus...... Tend to agree with the Onhwy61. IMHO good soundstaging is two things - 1. A good proxy measure of a systems accuracy and resolving ability, and 2. An audio means of making up for the fact that at a live concert you literally see the players - prec... | |
| Speaker suggestions for Plinius, Muse... Agree with Paullindemann that Thiels work great with Plinius amps. | |
| Input Impedance for Power Amp One could write a lot on this topic, but it sounds like you only need some basics here. A low output impedence (such as your 10 Ohms) driving a high input impedence (such as your 10 kOhms) is precisely what you want - infact a lower output impeden... | |
| Amp stands- Do they work? Hi Ejlif. I only have time for a quick response on the bladder stuff at present, but here goes. Obviously you can buy a Vibraplane or Townshend etc. But to make your own you need a minimum of a top plate, a bottom plate, a bladder of some kind in ... | |
| Amp stands- Do they work? I find interesting the comments by those who "do not see how an amp stand can make a difference with a solid state amp". These comments rank alongside those from people that could not see how competent amplifiers could sound different, or how cabl... | |
| Amp stands- Do they work? As an outsider to the US market, I have the impression that the US audio community seems to under-rate the importance of equipment stands. Equally, while the UK audio community has grasped the importance of very rigid equipment stands, they have n... | |
| Cardas Cross and JMLab speakers...?. I think you are barking up the wrong tree by looking at cables. The Straightwire Quartet is already a fairly soft sounding cable. Room treatment sounds like it is the issue, but seems to be out of the question - you need to work harder on training... | |
| Vote for best US made solid state amp Carl, I will let you know his details when I can - but I am going off to my Fiji abode for the next two weeks, so I will do it when I get back. | |
| Best Sounding Power Cord By the way, if you are going the whole hog, you may be interested to know that circuit breakers deteriorate over time as their contacts get dirty and for most of them you can not easily clean them. In any case I have found that the old-style ceram... | |
| Vote for best US made solid state amp FYI Carl. The fruit is called a Kiwifruit in this country. It is just for people in strange foreign lands (like yourself) that we felt the need to make the spelling easier. A Kiwi is a flightless bird, but the word is also used to describe New Zea... | |
| Best Sounding Power Cord I agree that tight screw-down connections all the way seem to be very important from my experiments. Push-on connections introduce noise and are only needed for legality and convenience. However, I do not agree that 6 foot of good cable cannot mak... | |
| Vote for best US made solid state amp We'll borrow Australia's - we're not proud! | |
| Vote for best US made solid state amp If we are competing for best blowhard now Carl - I shall enter by suggesting "the best one is a dead one". Try a Kiwi amp! | |
| Vote for best US made solid state amp If we are competing for best blowhard now Carl - I shall enter by suggesting "the best one is a dead one". Try a Kiwi amp! | |
| Antijitter Hi Garfish. I am definitely a believer in spending on a good transport, to the extent that I find it much harder to find a transport that I am happy with, than I do with DACs. Even with a jitter reducer in place, changes in transport or the cable ... |