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| Best $200 speaker cables for overall performance? As a point of reference, I have always recommended the use of MI-2 Veracity's over the MI-3 Divinity's. The MI-3's are too low in nominal impedance for most systems, causing excess current to flow. Since most amps aren't up to the task, the end re... | |
| Best $200 speaker cables for overall performance? No problem Marc, go ahead and drop me a line. Just be a bit patient as i sometimes get more email than i know what to do with : ) Sean> | |
| Recomendations for using 2 4ohm woofers in a 3way. If anything, you would want to use mids and tweeters that are more efficient, as it is easier / more cost effective to "pad" or "attenuate" higher frequencies than it is lower frequencies.Starting off with two 8 ohm woofers would be advantageous i... | |
| Yamaha MX1000U Amp Am i the only one completely befuddled here or what??? Not only with some of the original posters questions / terminology, but with some of the responses too !!! Other than that, this is a pretty sturdy amp, one of the better ones from a "mass pro... | |
| Half the information on CDs is analogue Jason: That's a great idea, but i don't really see too many high visibility performers that would be open to the idea of "strangers" recording their live events. While some artists / groups do allow such things, trying to do so at most events will... | |
| Half the information on CDs is analogue Shadorne & El: I know that not ALL "redbook" cd's and / or cd playback systems suck. I have heard very enjoyable redbook based systems and would like to think that i own a couple of them. Having said that, i think that the mass majority of red... | |
| 3 amps bridged to 180wpc or a 5 channel amp,sound? On most mass produced amps, bridging typically sounds worse than an unbridged unit. Most of this has to do with parts tolerances, mass production and a lack of properly matching output devices. The end result sonically is typically harder sounding... | |
| Best $200 speaker cables for overall performance? After I performed thousands of dollars worth of upgrades to my Father's system, I changed his speaker cabling. We went from some Audioquest stuff ( can't remember the model ) to Goertz MI-2 Veracity. Upon doing so, my Father exclaimed "that speake... | |
| CD sound quality Most Philips products have a rolled off top end. Combining this with lower grade cabling AND "softer" sounding electronics ( like most NAD stuff ) could definitely tilt the scales towards TOO soft and round sounding. You could try to band-aid the ... | |
| BMI power cord with Musical Fidelity KW 500amp Frank: Do NOT use "normal" silicone for what you want to do. Silicone is acedic and can cause the plasticizers in cabling to break down and migrate. This migration can contaminate other dielectrics and / or corrosion of the actual conductors. If y... | |
| Any active/passive preamps with penny & giles pot? If i can remember correctly, i think that the Dennesen JC-80's used these. This was a three chassis ( left channel, right channel, power supply ) dual mono SS preamp designed by John Curl in 1980, hence the model name. Prior to the CTC Blowtorch, ... | |
| Half the information on CDs is analogue The point that i was trying to make was not that digital sucks ( it definitely can ) or that analogue is better ( it definitely can be ), but that i ( and several others ) could hear MASSIVE differences between the two. As i also mentioned, this w... | |
| Half the information on CDs is analogue Onhwy: The digital recorder that i was using was a stand alone TDK CD-R Audio burner. I purchased this unit based on the reputation that the TDK computer based burners had at the time i.e. as being the best and most reliable at the time for pennie... | |
| Any thoughts on the CD "trimmer" sirspeedy: If you want, you can send me a disc or two and i can trim them for you. That is all that i will do though, as i do NOT believe that markering them up is beneficial. In fact, in my experience, it has been a drawback. Anything that you wa... | |
| Any thoughts on the CD "trimmer" Mlsstl: I purchased one of these units from a local audio store with full return privileges. After making direct comparisons with identical discs i.e. one "cut" and the other "uncut", the audible difference made me decide to keep the unit.As a poi... |