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| How does the Ayre System Enhancement CD work? Warren: My thoughts on this are that most of this disc and specific track tend to "work" all of the components in the system to a much greater degree and do so in a much more consistent manner than any type of music does. Given that most music is ... | |
| New Years Resolutions Newbee: NO problem at all. I know that you aren't one to throw flaming spears into a crowded area and respect your contributions to Agon quite a bit. Your responses are typically very well thought out, to the point and worded so as not to offend. ... | |
| Grouding question ? What you're describing to me sounds like you've taken two male plugs and connected a 16 gauge wire between the ground tabs with no other wiring between the hot & neutral tabs. You intend to plug this into the Hydra and into your wall outlet, h... | |
| New Years Resolutions Newbee: with all due respect, my suggestions were presented in a manner that will help those that seek answers from me to get them, possibly in a more timely manner. That info was posted so as to explain how / why i might not have responded to som... | |
| New Years Resolutions Warren: I by no means started this thread in search of praise or recognition. As stated, i wanted to clear the air for all to see and i had hoped that others would join with me in making public proclamations. Making such a proclamation for all to ... | |
| Cable Costs Relative to System We've done some blind testing using digital cables and the winner was always the same cable in several different systems. This specific cable makes use of resistive terminations as described in this article at Borbely Audio. While Borbely talks ab... | |
| Building an equipment rack from scratch I've never seen or heard of the VTI racks before. They appear to be very cost effective for what you get. If you don't mind answering some questions Joe ( or anyone else that is familiar with them ), can you help us out here?Are the shelves free f... | |
| Grouding question ? Mitch: Are you talking about simply running an external wire from your outlet to the Hydra? If that is the case, i see nothing wrong with doing that. Just make sure that it can pass a sizeable amount of current. Sean> | |
| Going HD - Should I dump DirectTV? Had DTV and am now using Comcast. NO comparison in terms of picture quality. That is, DTV is FAR superior in every aspect. Am thinking about giving Dish Network a try very soon. The quality of your cable signal will have a LOT to do with your indi... | |
| Is 24/192 all hype? Philnyc's comments about a 75 ohm standard are correct, but believe me, very few digital components actually adhere to that standard. This is why different cables sound and perform different i.e. the digital interconnect acts as an impedance trans... | |
| New Years Resolutions While i appreciate the words of support, i was hoping that others might contribute resolutions of their own. Not only might this encourage others to try to make a change for the better in their lives seeing that others may be fighting similiar bat... | |
| Using an amplifier with variable gain Inpep brings up some valid points that i overlooked. Kudo's to him for being on the ball.The more signal that you pump into the amp, the less that line loss comes into play with the potential for a higher S/N ratio. You'll end up with both the pre... | |
| Single vs Multiple driver loudspeakers... I've never seen very much on the Manger's although the design intrigues me. John Curl has made some very positive comments about these drivers and their potential, but once again, they are limited in terms of spl and extension. The articles that i... | |
| Building an equipment rack from scratch After building several different racks for family and friends and learning quite a bit along the way, i would have built them very differently now. I'll try to go into detail later as to what i would change, but suffice it to say that many of the ... | |
| Using an amplifier with variable gain Using both gain adjustments simply puts both potentiometers into the signal path. Running one wide open and using the other to regulate signal amplitude should theoretically lessen the chances for signal degradation. The one factor that i can thin... |