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| Power Cords on a $1000 budget what would you do? going from a cheap lower guage power cord to a giant 8 guage power cord for only $500.00If it's really so significantly superior, why not make it yrself for $5?There no magic to making a reasonably good wire connector.Indeed. Furthermore, many com... | |
| Anything better than Magnepan 1.6? No there is nothing better for your taste. This is the best. | |
| Why does this old tube gear sound so good? Interesting...have you considered that your "modest" but newer gear might not be suited to your high quality taste for vintage sound? Alternatively it may be either the euphonic tube soudn or the way the tube output transformer reacts with your sp... | |
| More speaker or more power I'm with Jaybo and Duke....speakers. If you go pro speakers they won't sound so dull or lifeless at higher volumes. (thermal compression and as the cones exceed Xmax)(BTW: Due to the prevalence of compression in speakers you don't neccesarily need... | |
| 4 or 8 ohm tap - is this a good way to tell Whatever sounds best to you. Either way the impedance of the output transformer stage of the amp will be modifying the frequency response of your speaker in accordance with the impedance variation of the speaker with frequency. If you have some te... | |
| Modern CDs are mixed too loudly - a demonstration INTERESTING. THIS VIDEO CLIP WAS ALSO POSTED ON BOB KATZ HOME WEBSITE. I READ THE LINK TO THE ARTICLE ABOUT RUSH. NOW I KNOW WHY I DON'T LIKE THE SOUND OF THEIR MUSIC ANYMORE. IT EXPLAINS THAT POWER WINDOWS WAS THE LAST REALLY WELL MASTERED CD AND... | |
| 3 way vs. 2 way Ryder and Pubul57,We are in total agreement. [Shadorne ] I just saw your second post on the this thread. Given your room a good two way is your best option, IMHO. | |
| System psychology, or just psyched out? Now my question would be is this for psychological reasons, or purely objective? Purely objective. If you look at my system then you will see that I use some very cheap stuff (similar to your pawn shop quality) alongside some not so cheap gear an... | |
| How To Tell Fake Cardas Cable Just listen - it should be immediately obvious. | |
| Horns vs Ribbons vs Dyanamic Damn it Jaybo, we're only audiogoners here not trekkies! We go where no audiophile has gone before. Horns and planars just do not compare to warp drivers! | |
| Blockbuster goes Blu-ray, HD DVD=beta?, Rysa-4, The lower production costs both for players and disks means HD_DVD will win this in the end, and the lack of any international support for Blu Ray to speak of seals the deal. Quite possibly. However my premise (which may indeed be wrong) i... | |
| Vandersteen 5a or Eggleston Andra II Dev, Shadorne, you mentioned in your thread the Andra's are "a bit bass light". Actually that was supposed to be paraphrasing Mothra ( my fault as I was not clear). I never actually said anything about the Vandy's (I think they are great too) or i... | |
| 3 way vs. 2 way Goatwuss,Well put. I tend to agree. Although some exceptional two ways are pretty impressive (Meyer X 10 for example) but as a generalization, "rule of thumb", I am in total agreement. | |
| Vandersteen 5a or Eggleston Andra II MOthra, Dunlavy sc-IV's (with upgraded tweeter), B&W 801 series 2 limited editions with north creeks crossovers, spendor sc-100's, quad esl-57's, B&W matrix 805's. Awesome I am very impressed by your choices. You have some classics. Perhap... | |
| Vandersteen 5a or Eggleston Andra II Mothra,Ok. I accept that everyone has different tastes and reknown mastering engineers may have odd taste too. Good point. Folllowing one engineer or another may not lead to satisfaction. What do you think is a great speaker then? What is actually... |