soix
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| The Cable Co With the huge margins from selling new cables they damn well better have excellent customer service. Frankly, with the fluid used market for cables and the ease with which they can be shipped, buying new cables seems a bit insane unless you just ... | |
| Upgrade B&W 805D2 to 802D2 or 802D3? I’d suggest going to listen to Joseph Audio Pulsars or Perspectives. I got to hear 805 D3s next to Pulsars, and the Pulsars just did everything better. Imaging, soundstage, disappearing act, bass, overall musicality— no contest. The. D3s are good,... | |
| Wireless vs. Ethernet for Streaming I’ve been using WiFi in my HeadFi rig through my iDevices using Qobuz and was happy until I brought my CD transport up from my big rig to spin some discs not available for streaming. I was very disappointed to hear the CD transport sounded better... | |
| Power regeneration - good idea? PS audio? A lot of people like balanced power conditioners. Underwood HiFi sells Core Power Technologies that seem very good and worth checking out. Best of luck. | |
| Processor and amp or AVR? I don’t think your system warrants an investment in separates. I’d recommend a Yamaha AVR as they offer relatively very good sound and excellent reliability. Best of luck. | |
| Why terminate speaker wire? Great question, and I tend to agree that less is more and should be cheaper without the pricey connectors. I would do silver-plated ends for the reasons stated above. | |
| Power Cable Suggestions Needed I’d recommend Cullen Cable. They’re in your price range and offer a trial period so very low risk option. Best of luck. | |
| Best Bang for the Buck Upgrade @hilde45 beat me to it. It really depends on what sonic improvements you’re looking for. I think you’ve got some really good speakers, and the fact that you seem to connect well with them, well, that speaks volumes to me because that ain’t always ... | |
| biwire? and best way to do it? Just get these and forget the budget stuff — you’ll be thrilled. If not, just resell them as AZ has a fluid used market. They’ve been in my system for 20 years and beat out the likes of VooDoo, Audience, etc. and ain’t going anywhere. Best of l... | |
| SPDIF Digital Cable Recommendations @bigkidz once told me it’d be better to use an RCA to BNC adapter and use a BNC cable rather than using an RCA connection. It’s hard to imagine why adding two conversion points would be better than running straight SPDIF, but just wanted to share ... | |
| Micro zotl 2 upgrade I’d agree with @lancelock and think you’d need to at least go to at least a Ref 5SE — more likely the Ref 6SE — and not even sure that’d be an improvement. If you like the sound of the MZ2, going up the scale makes a lot of sense. Point is, there’... | |
| SPDIF Digital Cable Recommendations @nonoise I think the D60 was also originally designed by Chris Sommovigo of Black Cat/Stereovox and my XV2 was a later iteration of that design. Could be wrong though. | |
| SPDIF Digital Cable Recommendations I have an Apogee Wyde Eye SPDIF — it’s an excellent cable that pulls off the difficult balance of being detailed yet still musical. I much prefer it to my highly-regarded Stereovox (now Black Cat) XV2. My advice — pick one of these up for 60 buc... | |
| LSA 20 Statement Speakers Interesting info about the cabinets, and I looked it up and they weigh about 70lbs each so certainly not MDF. But, reading the universally glowing reviews they seem to have chosen wisely to keep costs down. Yeah, they’d probably sound a little b... | |
| pre-amp processor The room correction improvement is about 20%.It can not compensate for a very bad acoustic room. That wasn’t my point. The point was the Lyngdorf has superior room correction that differentiates it from the Acurus and could supersede other son... |