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| Please Critique my Setup and Recommend Upgrade(s) " It sounds like the frequency bands are a little disjointed."That's your speakers. The Elac's are OK, but you can do a lot better. You can fix that by getting time and phase correct speakers like the Vandersteen Model 1's. They're more coherent t... | |
| Living in Audiophile Hell ! Buenos Aires , Argentina You should have slipped into the country while Obama was president. He had the Krell in every listening room policy in effect. Only people who were here illegally qualified. You missed out. | |
| Best "laid-back" speaker cable & interconnects for all Naim system? " At one time NAIT's were unstable using other brands of speaker wire. Check with NAIM first! "He is using Naim cables. On the same amp the OP has I tried: AQ, Kimber, Tara, Synergistic, Harmonic and Cardas speaker cables. Its also interesting to... | |
| Speaker Break In Question - going from single wired to bi-wired " I had my speaker cables re-terminated to be bi-wired."Were they re-terminated so that the high and low sections are identical? Sometimes they allow more conductors for low frequencies, or if the cable has more than 1 type of conductor, they will... | |
| XLR interconnects " The Rotel RSP 1582 has XLR inputs and outputs but it's not really balanced unless you have very "noisy" environment I really don't think the XLR cable will make any difference. "Having a noisy environment doesn't determine if a component is ... | |
| I knew we were different " Somewhere between a half to two-thirds of the population have this reaction, yet scientists have long debated why."It's when someone goes out and buys some really expensive cables and they didn't perform as expected. Cold chills every time. | |
| Best "laid-back" speaker cable & interconnects for all Naim system? " To balance everything out, I either need to resell the Nait and get an integrated that is more laid-back with excellent low bass response and punch (like the 4330SE... yes, I miss her) or try and find the equivalent in speaker cables and inte... | |
| XLR interconnects " Reason I ask is that I will be getting a preamp that has XLR outputs and would consider using them if it truly makes a difference in sound over unbalanced. If not, then I'll stick with unbalanced cables and just enjoy the music."Again, having... | |
| XLR interconnects " Effort? What effort?XLR is the default. Just do it! "The effort for buying new cables for a system that's not balanced. And if the components are single ended, op amps are used to accommodate the cables, and can actually degrade sound quality... | |
| Bluesound Node 2 vs. Auralic Aries Mini I would use a computer instead. Its cheaper and easier. It also gives you a lot of options. If you don't like one music player, you can just get a different one. | |
| Help with Rega tonearm " Which turntable? P7 had the RB700; not sure what the P5 had. P9 had the RB900 and RB1000. Vinyl Engine could tell you what model of tone arm with which table. "It may have been bought separately or came on a different brand of TT. If it ha... | |
| Speaker to mount in a bookcase - up to $2000 (somewhat long) The problem with most bookshelf speakers is that they were never meant to be put in bookshelves. There are a few, however, and it it was my system, I would get a pair of Vandersteen VLR. The VLR's are time and phase correct, just like their floors... | |
| XLR interconnects " I read that XLR interconnects can maintain the signal over longer distances therefore it is ideal to use an XLR interconnect over rca unbalanced cables."XLR connectors on a cable does not mean its balanced. It's just a 3 conductor that can be ... | |
| MIT Oracle interconnects with ? Whats your system? | |
| Should high-end shops be "OBLIGATED" to advise about component matching for best sound? " Who would enforce this " obligation "? "For the most part, manufacturers do. Established brands won't let just anyone become a dealer. Requirements vary from brand to brand, but they do their best to make sure a dealer can support their produc... |