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| Banana plugs, Spades or a little of each? For a combination of convenience, contact area and secure fit I like the BFA-style bananas, also known as Z-plugs. It's easy to adjust the tension, either tighter or looser depending on your binding posts, they're very quick to connect and disconn... | |
| To dac or not to dac This won't be important to everyone but another advantage of an external DAC is that most have multiple inputs, giving you the ability to add its benefits to other sources, like a hard-drive based music server or satellite radio feed. | |
| DH Labs Silver Sonic Vett93: According to the DH Labs site, the BL-1 and Air Matrix are fully shielded. I don't see any information about shielding for the Revelation but you could contact DH Labs to find out. | |
| Lossless Ipod question Yes, good luck. But before you re-rip all those CD's, do just one or two of them and see if it's worth the effort to you. If you ripped them at a reasonably high bit-rate, 192 or 320, the difference you can hear in your system may not be worth all... | |
| Lossless Ipod question If you ripped your CD's to a lossy format like mp3 when you put the music on your iPod, a lot of the original data was discarded in order to create smaller files. You can convert those mp3 files to a lossless format but you won't recover the lost ... | |
| Audio switch with 1 input and 2 outputs If you can't find what you want commercially and you don't want to deal with adapters it would be a relatively simple job to make one yourself with three pair of chassis-mount RCA jacks, a small project box and a switch. | |
| 6SN7 based Pre-Amplifier I can't do a comparison with your other candidates but I'm extremely pleased with the AES AE-3 DJH Signature preamp I'm using now. It's got a small footprint that might help in the setup you describe and is incredibly well built with all point-top... | |
| DH Labs Silver Sonic I've also been very happy with the DH Labs Air Matrix interconnects between my DAC and preamp and between the preamp and amp. The point of diminishing returns is different for everyone but all The DH Labs cables I've used, BL-1, D-110 and Air Matr... | |
| Now they call 80s gear vintage. Yeah, well, I'm sympathetic, they're starting to call me vintage, too. | |
| DeVore Gibbon 8's or Salk Songtowers? I use the Gibbon 8's with both AES tube amp and preamp and with a Simaudio I-5 solid state integrated. They're superb with both. I do love the triode tube sound with them and being able to swap the tubes around but what sold me on the Devores orig... | |
| Integrated Amp Bargains with good balanced sound? Dkzzz - the AC outlets on the back of the amp are not tapped into the amp's transformers, they're connected to the incoming AC from the wall outlet. | |
| Time to upgrade It's hard to beat the original Music Hall CD25 for bang-for-the-buck sound with HDCD capability, especially with an opamp upgrade. I don't think the newer version, the CD25.2, has HDCD. | |
| Integrated Amp Bargains with good balanced sound? 1. No, you shouldn't worry about the power outlets. They're sometimes a convenience but shouldn't be a factor in your decision.2. Most of the amps that have been recommended will have speaker 'binding posts,' not spring clips. You'll find spring c... | |
| Soliloquy Sat 5 Replacement Drivers The impedance of the SAT 5's is 8 ohms so I assume that both drivers would be that value. | |
| Soliloquy Sat 5 Replacement Drivers Even though the Web site is still up, Soliloquy has been out of business for awhile. The drivers were proprietary and there aren't any direct replacements available from other manufacturers, as far as I could discover. Underwood HiFi, who advertis... |