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| Adding second "dedicated" breaker box. Lak - you should definitely rethink your grounding scheme. It's illegal and potentially dangerous. | |
| Please rate WATT/Puppy 7 I spent many hours listening to W/P7s on an all-tube setup (turntable, tube phono stage, tube preamp, tube monoblocks), and thought the combination sounded wonderful on good recordings, and brutal on mediocre recordings. When it came time to make ... | |
| Adding second "dedicated" breaker box. Your power utility would probably have to pull new mains to your residence, which would cost big bucks. Unless you have a top-notch electrician, you can introduce some pretty serious grounding problems throughout your house with multiple mains pan... | |
| Need some Suggestions on Best Digital Cable I have a Transparent Reference Digital cable connecting my SCD-1 with my ML No. 360S DAC. I tried several other brands/models of digital cable, and found that the Transparent cable produced the most coherent soundstage, and gave great detail witho... | |
| Are Magnepan MG-IIIa speakers problematic? I owned a set of MG 3.5Rs for 10 years, and didn't have any issues with them. They were a pain to set up in the three different rooms I had them in, but once I found "the spot" everything was great. I don't see how that is different than any other... | |
| Time Phase/Coherence-Vandy 5A vs. SL M-1 So let me ask you - will your purchase decision be based on which loudspeaker sounded best to YOUR ears, or will it be based on someone else's answers to technical/philosophical questions about those speakers? | |
| ARC LS 16 MK1 vs. ARC LS25 MKll Reb, if there was "no music in the 25mk2" for you, there must have been something seriously wrong in your setup. | |
| ARC LS 16 MK1 vs. ARC LS25 MKll I own an LS25mkII, and it's not as "tubey" sounding as some other tube-based preamps. IMO this is a good thing, as I find many tube designs to be overly warm and syrupy-sounding.I feel it's a good compromise between the warmth of a "tubey" tube pr... | |
| Anybody Heard the Vandersteen 5A'S I recently moved from big Magnepans to Vandersteen 5As. Tireguy's concerns about a big difference in "speed" between panel speakers and the 5As is sound from a purely theoretical standpoint; however, the reality is that I feel I gave up almost NOT... | |
| Screen sound transparency The screen will reflect sound. | |
| Pioneer Elite DV59AVI or Denon DVD 5900? sonic17 is correct - the DV-59 suffers from the chroma bug (as do many players). If you're not sensitive to it, it's produces a great picture; it's very film-like. If you are sensitive to the chroma bug it will drive you crazy. It's pretty minimal... | |
| Levinson 300 series versus 400 series amps I heard a system with late-model 300-series and a set of brand-new 400-series monoblocks, and I couldn't tell the difference between them. AFAIC the difference is the 400-series are lighter, more compact, and put out a bit less heat. | |
| Special "phono cables" from turntable to phonostag Your dealer is correct - the networks on Transparent's interconnects are designed to work with line-level signals, not the tiny ones from the cartridge to the phonostage. Transparent actually makes some "phono cables" sans network for this specifi... | |
| Dedicated Line, Surge and Safety As Ez2hear said, 12ga is the minimum gauge for a 20A circuit. It's preferred by electricians over 10ga precisely because it's thinner. Thinner is easier to install. If you've ever worked with 10ga NMS, you know it is a major PITA - it makes any jo... | |
| Dedicated Line, Surge and Safety Subaruguru - I'm interested in reading your explanation as to how two dedicated lines somehow isolate components from each other. If you put both lines on the same power leg to avoid ground potential problems, you're riding on the same big bus. An... |