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| Coincident Cables Experiences? Any Good? Now we know about the current status of development of the IC cable from its designer himself. I thank you for your commitment to high end audio Mr. Blume. You belong to the very small minority of designers who asks where he ought to apply his tal... | |
| Coincident Cables Experiences? Any Good? Coincident attempted to design an improved version of the IC Interconnect, and ran into technical problems (exactly what, I do not know). The upgraded or new IC cable (it was supposed to sell at a higher price than the original IC) will probably n... | |
| To tube or not to tube... Recently bought a pair of VAIC (not VAC) 52B SET mono-blocks and used them in combination with my z-systems digital preamp/equalizer. No pre-amp/amp combo has ever taken me more directly to the original musical event. Half tube/half digital. | |
| Best Solid State Amp For 10k Or Less Jeff Rowland Design Group | |
| Coincident Cables Experiences? Any Good? Did a shoot-out A/B comparison between the Coincident IC cable and an NBS costing 10 times more. The NBS was more up-front, the Coincident more laid-back. The NBS had warmer colorations and mid-range textures (esp. voice and certain orchestral ins... | |
| Jan Allaerts cartridges Welcome to the Allaerts world Musikdok. The Allaerts MC-1 Boron cartridge has an output of about 0.5 mV. It should have very little compatibility problems with a decent phono stage. The next step up--the MC MKII--has an even greater output of 0.7 ... | |
| send the electrician !!! You can buy the Coincident IC direct from Coincident (check website; I do not know about a loan for a trial) or from Arthur Salvatore at High End Audio (check high-endaudio website). The Coincident IC takes incredibly long to break in (500 hours) ... | |
| transformer Hum I echo Dekay's inquiry: where does one get sorbathane washers? | |
| Top Ten Tube Amps of All Time? I find it a little strange that the Manley Labs Retro 300B monoblocks have not yet been mentioned on this string. | |
| Best Cartridge cost no object A great topic with some excellent posts already. There have been gigantic improvements in the performance of cartridges over the last decade (compared to very little improvement in CD laser pick-ups). Here are my top ten cartridges, no particular ... | |
| what is everybody listening to right now Embarrassing to say, but I have been listening and relistening to the studio songs on Tori Amos, "Venus Orbiting" for weeks now. I was not much of a fan of Tori Amos in the past, but I am completely impressed by her singing and composing here and ... | |
| Anybody knows about NBS cables? Worldcup86: the Nordost cables are very subtractive and not worth the price. The Cardas interconnects are forgiving, and good for CD sources. The NBS speaker cable should work very well with Classe electronics and especially with the JMLab speaker... | |
| Anybody knows about NBS cables? What model of NBS power cords did you repair Mar 00? I think the wire increases in diameter as you go up the cable line. | |
| best inerconnect $300 to $400 I bought a Coincident IC interconnect (RCA) via mail order from Arthur Salvatore at High End Audio (Toronto, Canada) based on his high praise of it. The cable is very direct, uncolored, dynamic, transmits the full range of frequencies, images well... | |
| Better Electronics or New Cables??? Rockvirgo, take the analogy one step further: I have known certain "monster" cables to make a system sound so "dead" that it would take an audiophile Dr. Frankenstein to reawaken the system to life again. To get back to the forum theme, I think it... |