shadorne
Responses from shadorne
| Do Cables Wear Out? Cable Threads on Audiogon NEVER wear out. They are always in fashion and there is at least one each week and they abound with clarity. | |
| WILSON AUDIO/ cost vs. value I am not sure you should expect a private company to publish their books. However, the fact this is being discussed suggests that this add has provoked the desired response.....it made someone stop and think....better still it made a few people di... | |
| Plastic ring over tweeter opinion My preference is to tend to stick with what the speaker manufacturer intended or recommends. I use the same logic with power cords - what comes with the component is acceptable to me. My logic is this: I know far less about these things than the e... | |
| "Absolute best" used speaker for $8-10K You mentioned a preference for female vocals/jazz. Diana Krall "The Look Of Love" won a Grammy for Best Engineered Album in 2002. I believe it was mastered by Doug Sax on ATC SCM 100ASL's. These speakers are currently listed on audiogon used for $... | |
| Best used amp in the $1500 range Bryston 4B ST for power amp...and Rotel make some very good low cost 2 channel preamps (way less than your price point if you dont need a turntable pre-preamp) | |
| Do Cables Wear Out? Cables tied to the bedposts perhaps? Normally for audio use, cables should last until the insulation hardens and cracks or until the copper corrodes away, which is probably of the order of decades... if not centuries. | |
| Volume on HT not what you think it should be? These processors have the power of a PC and the features that are almost infinite.....but they have the interface worse than a digital watch....no surprises!The one feature I like most is that my DSP resets volume levels when shut down. Another fe... | |
| XLR or single ended cables and why? Shadorne, Is it a big deal to have an extra increase of 6db with XLR ? That's a lot of extra juice. Running either at 4 or 8 ohm, It requires double in wattage power for each 3db increase. Isn't it ? BTW, I have my MD. pulled the wool out of my e... | |
| Review: Energy Loudspeakers Veritas 2.3 Speaker I have to say that I started my hobby with Energy Pro 22 ...the original speaker that put Energy on the map. I STILL OWN THIS SPEAKER 25 years later....while I have owned many others and let them go....these will never be sold. They were used by C... | |
| Do you believe everything you read on the internet Note to Self: Mmmh.... this is not good. Biomimetic suspects something. To Biomimetic: "Don't be surprised your threads took off. You must have a flair for this kinda thing... I mean be realistic...come on, you can't really suspect an internet con... | |
| Snake oil, subs and alcohol LOL. I have had the same thing happen in reverse. I was testing the Direct Analog sound versus the A/D and back to D/A circuit in my DSP preamp. I wanted to check there was no degradation to the sound using the DSP built in ADC and DAC (an extra s... | |
| XLR or single ended cables and why? Ghostrider45,You are right that I have oversimplified.RCA uses ground to carry half of the signal whilst XLR uses an additional wire. Signal levels are different as well. Circuits are designed differently too. Using the chassis for carrying part o... | |
| Perreaux or Bryston? Yeah go for more power...muhaha! The 4B is the ticket if you are thinking of Bryston. | |
| XLR or single ended cables and why? Salestalk and Ads are designed to make you fearful. Fear that you are somehow not getting the most out of your high $$$ system. And fear propels consumers to get their wallet out and spend more $$$Do not be concerned: Wire is wire. There is no big... | |
| Best sounding system for under $10k Pedrillo,Congratulations on an awesome system. I agree you can do very well on Audiogon buying second hand gear...there are many reasons that people sell excellent gear second hand (divorce, upgrading, downsizing, moving home etc.) - you just have... |