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| Upgrade Thiel CS3.6 or McIntosh AMP I used 3.6s for about six years and agree with you that they have a lot of potential and will be hard to beat with something new in the 3-4K price range. I used mine with a Classe DR-10 initially but it seemed to run out of power on peaks, so I r... | |
| Dog Proof Speaker Stands For Harbeth SHL5Plus Speakers I used both Sound Anchors and Skylan stands for my Spendor SP-100s, and both are very stable. I prefer the sound quality of the Sound Anchors though. | |
| Converting Solid State to Tube Rectification on a Preamp That's true. The DC from a full-wave bridge should in theory be a bit smoother, but I doubt that would make any difference in a preamp. | |
| Converting Solid State to Tube Rectification on a Preamp By the way, a typical tube rectified power supply uses a dual-element rectifier tube and a power transformer with a center-tap secondary wiring. This is a full-wave rectifier. A solid state power supply often uses a full-wave-bridge (4 diodes) t... | |
| Converting Solid State to Tube Rectification on a Preamp What preamp do you have? I have switched back and forth on several preamps from solid state to tube rectifier, but each of them was a DIY unit where I had intended to have this flexibility when I built it. A commercial preamp with solid state re... | |
| Harbeth SLH5 plus. Top or bottom binding post? The best solution for bi-wiring posts is generally to attach one speaker lead to one set of posts and the other lead to the other set. For example, connect the + speaker lead to the + woofer post and connect the - speaker lead to the -tweeter pos... | |
| Furutech AC Receptacles Jazzonthehudson,Like you I have a GTX-D (R). Mine is the NCF version with the aluminum housing and the cover plate. That's the only Furutech outlet I have tried so I can't comment on how this differs from the non-NCF version or how the outlet so... | |
| Furutech AC Receptacles There is just no point in arguing in a forum whether "burn in" of something (anything) is real or not. Either you have tried this and noticed a difference, or not. I have experienced the changes with burn-in many times and with all sorts of comp... | |
| Tri-Planar Vll "SE Upgrade" This thread unfortunately got way off track. Looking through all the posts, I only saw one comment about the upgraded wiring vs. the stock Discovery wiring. Does anyone else have any reactions to the upgrades for the Triplanar, especially the wi... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil I have several pairs of Path Audio resistors and they were all the correct value. I didn't like their sound quality though.I am surprised this thread is still continuing. Haven't all possible issues about component part quality been covered by now? | |
| What speaker cable made a major difference in the sound quality of your speakers?? Audio Note SPx silver Litz, one of the few components I doubt I will ever replace. The retail price is very expensive but I managed to buy mine as a demo from an Audio Note dealer within your budget. | |
| Top resistors Sbl, I am afraid I can't help you. I abandoned my Duelund resistors (regular and CAST) several years ago. Same thing with my Path Audios. All of them left too much of a fingerprint on the music. Therefore I went back to where I started---with ... | |
| Do re -wired BI wired speaker cables need break in time ? The new bi-wiring setup has new connectors---spades or bananas---and they need to break in before you can evaluate the sound quality. When I change spades, I allow them to break in for 40 hours or so before listening. | |
| The best coupling caps in power amp ?? Mundorf, Infinicap ?? Autospec,I suspect you have been out of touch with the boutique cap market for a few years. InfiniCaps (and WonderCaps before them) are quite dated and no longer in the running for a high quality coupling cap, IMO. The regular Mundorf Supreme is... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? Thanks. |