retiredfarmer
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| High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ? Another thing of huge importance is the quality of the recording. Or of the lp, cd, radio broadcase. | |
| Experiences With Costly Balanced XLR Interconnects Above $3,000 I used audio questions lapis power to pre for a number of years. After I went to transparent reference there was a slight hardness that disappeared that I never really knew about til it was gone. I like the newer generations better in there li... | |
| Is There Just One Single Album That Does It For You, Completely? Just One. A tutorial on boat building. | |
| Aggrivated tinnitus from speakers? You have what they used to call a bright system. Brightness is elevated by hard walls. Glass and brick. Some wire also leads to more high frequency output. Interesting you find the streaming worse than cd or lp. That tells you your streamer i... | |
| Help me spend $100,000 on a new system Lol personally I would look at top shelf used equipment. 100k will get you some of the best in the used market. Personally a set of canary grand reference monoblocks 8 300b tubes in each one plus there top dog 4 box preamplifier. Likely ke... | |
| What was the first power cable that you noticed a difference in the sound? Well I had a system that just didn't play bass I changed the receptacle s to the 20 amp lines to the amps. Wow I got a bunch of bass. I am wondering if you cannot tell much difference because you have a problem farther up the line. If you d... | |
| What speaker could safely be ordered without hearing it first? None of them. | |
| What speaker could safely be ordered without hearing it first? None of them. | |
| Mark Levinson Repairs 905 681 9602 | |
| Mark Levinson Repairs Call Chris Johnson in Burlington Ontario he owns parts connection and he will get it fixed. He is one of the largest dealers of hi fi parts in the world. | |
| Budget preamp with quality volume control I would agree with above find an older badboy. It will mop the floor with a new cheap one. I would personally look for an Ayre k1xe or k3 or a canary 800 pair. The old classe Dr series would be great a threshold fet 10e etc get yourself a top... | |
| The best speaker cables you’ve had Sure not dire | |
| The best speaker cables you’ve had Transparent reference xl. Not dire there is anything better out there | |
| What's your experience with snooty HiFi salesmen? Lol it is always a good idea not to say much in a hi-fi store and listen to what they don't know. Then never forget that almost all the customers have a much higher net worth than the salesman do. If they get to bad don't be afraid to let the... | |
| CLASS A POWER RATINGS I have a pair of mark levinson 33h mono blocks each one weighs over two hundred pounds they double every time the impedance is halved and they are stable to 1/2 an ohm. They stay class a all the time and when they were tested the output power w... |