ruraltraumasurgeon
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| Recommendation for an audiophile speaker cord that is not "bright"? Folks-I use twisted copper cables without terminators. The system sounds better, so that's where I may end up (at the beginning, pointed in the right direction).I am borrowing some hi Z (high pass roll-off?) Transparent reference cables to try out... | |
| Recommendation for an audiophile speaker cord that is not "bright"? audiozenology-1. I doubt that is the tube amplifier, but you could be right. These speakers do have an impedance problem at low frequency (e,g, 100 Hz). I now use an ARC GS150, 8 KT150 tubes putting out 150 watts into 8 ohms. That might be a probl... | |
| Recommendation for an audiophile speaker cord that is not "bright"? geoffkait- My system is great - it now consists of an Esoteric K1X (bought it in Japan this fall), Shunyata OCXO OP19 master clock, McIntosh preamp, ARC GS150, etc. It sounds great with my run-of-the-mill copper speaker cables. And the Nordost cab... | |
| Recommendation for an audiophile speaker cord that is not "bright"? As the OP, just saying that I loved the sound of my system before I tried the Nordost Frey 2, Valhalla 1 or Valhalla 2 speaker cables. I have Nordost Valhalla power cords, Nordost QBase and a dedicated main and ground, and a Nordost QPoint under m... | |
| Recommendation for an audiophile speaker cord that is not "bright"? Since the others are much more expensive, I am going to try the Acoustic Zen first. Thanks! | |
| Recommendation for an audiophile speaker cord that is not "bright"? Thank you, everyone, for your responses. I do live in the U.S., and the following recommendations were made to me by Wilson Audio and the Cable Company:1. Wilson recommends Transparent speaker cables;2. Peter at the Cable Company (a great fellow!)... | |
| How Science Got Sound Wrong These arguments are mostly specious, as was the original article that was referenced. Most neurons exhibit graded spikes - few exhibit fixed amplitude. An optimal example is three-dimensional auditory space in the mesencephalon which contains "in... | |
| How Science Got Sound Wrong This is worse than watching Fox News, CNN or MSNBC. Get a life! | |
| SACD or not I highly recommend the Esoteric models - the K-01xs and the new K1X. The sound is incredible for both Redbook CDs and SACDs. | |
| Pass Labs int 250 and int 60 I have Wilson Sasha 2 speakers, which are hard to drive at low impedance. I currently use separates - an ARC GS150 tube amplifier and a McIntosh C22 preamp. Would the Pass INT-250 constitute a reasonable replacement for these tube-based separates?... | |
| HAIL TO THE KING..GINGER BAKER roxy54-Great answer! Ginger Baker was great, but so are/were Steve Gadd, Billy Cobham, Mitch Mitchell, Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Antonia Sanchez...Although maybe as humans we tend to rank talent (e.g., "the top 100"), it is nonsense, IMHO... | |
| Considering simplifying my system... talk me down (or whatever) pinkyboy (the OP)-I have considered doing the same in terms of simplification, and I am also getting on in years, but still have great hearing. My system is tube-based with an Esoteric digital front end and Wilson speakers. I have thought about re... |