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| Mogami balanced cables .... or another brand? Thinking of Mogami's? I'll add a vote. I ordered a full set because I really needed them - I had some "older and mixed" IC's - and definately questionable in terms of integrity. I chose Mogami because many recording studios consider them a industr... | |
| Wadia verses Meridian verses a Digital Server I'll check if DAC1's are at a local shop. I am happy with my "good thing" and certainly would like to add more goodness. I read that initially CD recordings got off to a bad start and Wadia in particular, developed a different computer program to ... | |
| Proceed AVP DAC vs Todays inexpensive CDP DACs? To me, the Proceed's DAC's sound great connected to a OPPO 981HD as a transport. I have owned the AVP2 +6 for about a year. All IC's are Mogami Gold. Pre-outs to powered mains, surrounds through a AMP 5, and SVS Ultra 13 also with pre-out. The mai... | |
| Dissapointed with my new speakers A little long but a "fast read" - I have mains that play flat to 50 Hz, and drop off from 40 to 20 Hz. Although they sound good full range, something was wrong. I fully read through my processors and subwoofers set-up recommendations. Then, I sat ... | |
| Ear Candy: Most startling recordings. HDCD's if you haven't heard them Persuasive Percussion - the original Enoch Light Varese Vintage CD. Terry Snyder and the All Stars. It's full of surprises and variety of instruments on nearly all 18 tracks. Beatle's DVD-A "LOVE" is so clean it's ... | |
| Top 5 Rock n Roll Vocalists The ability for a singer to produce a large variety of engaging musical sounds is really what I like hearing. I'd put the front vocalist for Yes, Beatles' Lennon & McCartney, both together and independently, Creedences' Fogerty strength and si... | |
| You know you're an audiophile if-- you really open up to your psychologist by telling him all your real problems developed mysteriously after first navigating through "Audiogon". | |
| Hearing protection A local Industrial/Occupational Health supply biz may help. A local certified occupational medicine audiologist may certainly know. Till then, a full-face motorcycle helmet over FM ear pods always works, so, don't do it. | |
| $20 XLR cables that sound good Some manufacturer's can assist you to match IC's. What cables did they find worked best during the R & D bench testing processes? For example, most of us have read several articles explaining that Mark Levinson uses Revel Ultima speakers for b... | |
| $20 XLR cables that sound good Everything's riding through IC's. I'd begin by selecting well-built, well-insulated "middle-end" IC's from a reputable audio company. Your ears will reveal if it's a musical system match, really capturing the system's synergy. You may also order t... | |
| HUGE Spacious Surrounds - The Maybe so, but man, they sound nice. They are a huge improvement compared to the smaller RC-7. I did try them as surrounds and they sounded good. They had a very "direct" presentation of surround sounds. The main problem: the main seats would sound... | |
| Any vets among the Audiophiles here? Salute to Audiophile Vets! 22 years U.S. Navy. 1981-2003. 4 years general shipboard duties as a quad zero hospital corpsman, 4 as a Independent duty hospital corpsman and later 12 as a physician assistant. 17 permanent duty transfers, 3 ships, 5 y... | |
| HUGE Spacious Surrounds - The Knownothing: My Tandberg 3011A FM tuner, I believe, only goes up to 15K Hz, yet, sounds great to me. Numbers seem to only tell half the story. My quest to find a simple tuner with a spinning tuning dial luckily introduced me to this subject. The d... | |
| Center channels: why only horizontal arrays? I'd like to see someone like JL Audio design about three sizes of center speakers with room correction. They probably need to be powered, fit flush below various monitors with a special cabinet, and allow for highly variable tuning. | |
| HUGE Spacious Surrounds - The Certified audiograms may be the best objective way to test hearing. Unfortunately, I'm only aware of OSHA type certified testing at 500Hz, 1K, 2K, 3K, 4K and 6K. Test CD's can get beyond that, but a SLM would have to be used to determine threshold... |