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| Why are audiophiles perceived as being wackos? Cwlondon has it correct in that marketing plays a large role in creating wants/needs. Our culture is absolutely inundated with purveyors who influence and anticipate our every need. Material items that were previously uneeded or not even thought a... | |
| Alon/Nola drivers All drivers are custom in the Alons. One thing to consider is replacement prices, I recently spoke with Carl and there have been steep price increases: Alnico tweeters $1600 pr., 10" Alnico woofers $1600 pr., Alnico mids are still $800 pr. There a... | |
| Anyone tried new VH Audio Air Sine Cable? I concur with Tvad, these cables are aptly named, 'air' being the relevant term here! | |
| Audio Aero Pirma DAC versus MF TriVista 21 DAC The 'sharpness' you hear is likely caused by the AC, try a power conditioner on your front end components. Dedicated lines are essential as well. | |
| Killing the Myth:Soundlabs with SET 845based ONLY The Art Audio Carissa and/or Carissa Signature will run relatively inefficient loudspeakers as well. These are high current design 845 amp. The bass control and articulation on my highly modified Alons is amazing from just 16 WPC, much better than... | |
| Ways to clean up the wall power for SET amp? Although not SET my Cary SLM 100's like Bybees alone best, in my case I use them on both the hot and neutral. Tried power conditioners, sucked away too much of the drive and life. Tried caps on AC receptacle in combination with the bybees, same pr... | |
| What would you change? I would suggest power conditioning, your present system is not the cause of the glare and/or edge. | |
| What haven't you listened to in a long time, but.. Its been Mike Bloomfield, an Anthology cd, Electic Flag, and If You Leave These Blues Play 'em As You Please. Coincidence Rosstaman? And Gordus, yeah, String Driven Thing! Also, any psychedelia I pick up, lately Trader Horne and Music Emporium. | |
| HELP Turning off the Left Brain Only once have I been able to turn off my analytical nature long term. I had finally optimized a former system over a period of years and finally felt that I could let go and enjoy the music. I enjoyed that system for over a year without one chang... | |
| Room Acoustics Problem???? I have experienced the exact same problem as you in pretty much the same size room! A number of fixes for me. First, I discovered that one speaker was about 2db louder (near cone measurement), I replaced some tubes to equalize output. Second, spea... | |
| Cable question .... how good Cardas Golden Refe... I've compared the Golden Ref. to some of the high priced spread from PAD, Siltech, Nirvana, Synergistic Research. The Golden Ref. remains between the preamp and amp while a PAD Venustas goes on source to preamp. I would describe the GR as essentia... | |
| What's your worst excuse for an upgrade I've got a hole in my pocket and a screw loose in my head. | |
| P. Conditioners + P. Cables in sequence I've not sure that I've ever experienced too much filtering for digital, on the other hand a filtered cord on my preamp connected through the conditoner sounded exactly like you descibe. Perhaps the power supply in the EMM is of sufficient qualit... | |
| power amplifier through a conditioner As usual no easy answers here, only you can decide for yourself. Having said that I think you would find the consensus of knowledgable audiophiles is not to use a conditioner on power amps. There was a time when I thought I preferred a conditoner ... | |
| Do i need AC conditioner w/dedicated AC lines? I have 3 dedicated lines with newly installed dedicated grounds. Since the dedicated grounds I now prefer my monoblock amps and preamp plugged directly into the wall, segregated from my digital setup which remains on the conditioner. Segregating t... |