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| Premium distilled water for ultrasonic record cleaner IMO, using expensive double-distilled, RO purified, or reagent grade water is probably overkill. Even distilled water from the grocery store only has a few ppm of impurities, something overwhelmingly contaminated from the junk on your records. I... | |
| What used speaker would you buy with $20,000-$35,000 and why? I agree with the poster that you should head to one of the audio shows to hear many expensive speakers, which is the rule at such shows. However, in my experience, and I have had a number of really expensive speakers, you should try some of the s... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Has anyone heard and/or could anyone post a review of the URH and Pro series cables? Not that I could ever afford them but I still like knowing about the state of the art products. I can't afford a Bugatti Veyron SS or Konigsegg car either but I... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz I see that the HFC website now shows the Pro series interconnects and speaker cables. I am sure they take sonics to an entirely new level and come complete with a 30 year mortgage. If you can afford these cables, best to you. Wish I could. | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Kazuist, there may indeed be a viable competitor to the HFC power cables for similar money but I have not heard it. Myself, I have had hugely expensive power cables from NBS and Intuitive Design, and they were decidedly inferior in most ways to t... | |
| Power cords at ridiculous prices? I am old enough to remember when speaker cables were 18 gauge lampcord and interconnects were the cheap vinyl-insulated RCA cables bought at Radio Shack. I also once thought that buying 10 gauge Monster Cable for $1 per foot and gold-plated inter... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Dunno about the power cables, but in my experience with HFC signal cables, they don't seem to follow the same pattern as that of other cables in that a lower level cable will act as a "bottleneck." By that I mean that adding a higher level cable ... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Here is what I have found so far regarding HFC cables. First, the biggest change I have heard so far is merely adding one CT-1 cable into my system.Second, there doesn't seem to be a "bottleneck" when adding more HFC cables, i.e. the more magnets... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz I have a pair of Ultimate speaker cables that have the earlier black waveguide tubes capped with silver ends. I am not sure how these would perform against the later silver waveguides with black caps. All of my U and UR IC's have the later silver ... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz I still say the biggest difference I have heard was when I replaced one of my previous interconnects with a regular CT-1 interconnect. Apparently just getting one set of magnets changes the electron flow the most. I have moved up the line in signa... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz One of the CT-1U IC's is new with only about 60 hours, the other three IC's/speaker cables have varying amounts of use, as do my URR Power Cords and Conditioners. I have had the full loom only about 50 hours totals, so I am not sure which componen... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz I finally have about 50 hours on my Ultimate signal cables and URR Power Cord and Power Conditioner. And I can hear pretty startling changes in soundstage depth, openness, immediacy, detail, texture. I am afraid to change any of the cables in the ... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Since my equipment rack sits close to the front wall of my room, I simply hang my CT-1U signal cables from the diffuser panels on the wall. For my CT-1U speaker cables, I hang these low on the front wall using plastic cable ties. Dunno what I woul... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz I guess I am ambivalent about the new cables. Yes, it is great that we now have even more state-of-the-art cables that can further improve our systems. The downside is now knowing we no longer have the best at the previous levels and now have the ... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz I too just bought a URR power cord to place between my HFC power conditioner and my Manley Steelhead phono stage. After only a few hours' use I can hear the usual quantum leap in what HFC does so well at: immediacy, tactility, presence, quickness,... |