riffer
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| suggestion for replacing Totem Arro I knocked mine over a couple times, so I built some stands. If they had been available at the time, I would have used the outriggers from Soundocity.Here's a link to a picture of my system in its old configuration that shows the stands:http://www.... | |
| Static electricity Killin me. I found that using a humidifier and not using rubber soled slippers/shoes worked for me. | |
| VPI Scout setup after watching Frefmer's video I've had a lot of experience with this, including installing and using VPI's anti-skate "device". (I think "device" in the VPI lexicon means "contraption"). Go with Stringreen's suggestion. Just leave the wire with it's natural twist and go from t... | |
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| Phono cables I use the VPI Cable with my Scout. I don't know if anything has changed with more recent production, but my JMW-9 and the cable were advertised as having Discovery tonearm wire at the time. | |
| Balanced audio switching The MAD switch is called a "Line Router". Just scroll down on the page I linked.My RCA one is direct wired; no circuit board. RCA's and wire appear to be god quality. The case is nice. Maybe not as nice as brushed aluminum, but still good. | |
| Is there any real alternative to Oppo?? Technically Oppo and Cambridge use the same Mediatek platform. There are a number of threads on this, but "Agisthos" appears to have a good handle on this in this thread:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1314367322&openfrom&... | |
| Is there any real alternative to Oppo?? There are about a dozen Oppo 93/95's on AudiogoN right now.As a minor thread hijack, does anyone know of a "high end" universal player that isn't a rebadge of one form or another? | |
| Balanced audio switching MAD makes a very nice manual switch:http://hollowstate.netfirms.com/otherproducts.htmI have the RCA one in my stash and it is quite good.Like Amarg, I wouldn't recommend the Y Cable. The only time I have used one was to split output from the line ... | |
| Totem Arro vs Revel Concerta F12 A couple of points,I'm right behind you, as I have rearrange my listening space for more room for speakers. I'll wait a bit, as the new Revel line is coming out now, so it may be worth waiting to see how the F206 shapes up.I would keep a contingen... | |
| Digital XLR Cables You need an AES3, commonly known as an AES/EBU cable. It is 110 Ohms vs 75 Ohms. I would also double check the pinout on your processor and DAC, as sometimes these aren't consistent. | |
| balanced output VPI No, you won't have to modify the box. Again, it's all in the manual. | |
| balanced output VPI To be honest though, I would probably just try it with a regular interconnect and see if it shows any promise. | |
| Totem Arro vs Revel Concerta F12 I have the Arros as well, but they definitely need a sub if you want appreciable bass (I have the Storm). If you look around, you can find measurements for both speakers and it appears that the F12's have a flatter response and more bass, but I wo... | |
| balanced output VPI The Phono stage has only RCA inputs. There is a diagram in the manual describing how to wire an RCA interconnect to go from RCA phono box to the RCA input. As I interpret it:The cable needs to have two wires and an external shield.One wire is for ... |