stehno
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| New House, Old Wire I'd get rid of the surge protector and go with an audio-grade power bar. Although I've never used one the rumor is stong that surge protectors of any sort induce sonic harm to one degree or another.Good quality power bars/strips typically sell for... | |
| Speltz anti-ic's vs Nordost QuattroFil The Speltz, as Stehno testified, really is a "best buy" and shows that performance sometimes is not linked to price.Sometimes? How about the Nuforce Ref 9 and especially the Nuforce SE amps? The SEs may well be without equal and at a fraction of t... | |
| New House, Old Wire I wouldn't worry about it. Ungrounded lines always provide a more pristine and musical presentation because common grounds induce much noise into the AC.If you're worried about electrical storms, simply unplug your equipment during those times.But... | |
| Replacement Fuse's - What are my options ???? I just happened to come across them as I'm in the process of applying for dealership status with Furutech. It appears that the retail price is $60 each but I'd have to verify. I initially choked just a bit at the $25 price of the IsoCleans but con... | |
| Replacement Fuse's - What are my options ???? I don't think anybody mentioned the Furutech fuses which I just stumbled across. These come with a pure silver conductor, rodium plating, and cryo-treated to boot!I've owned the excellent IsoClean fuses, I'd like to try the hifi.com fuses, but I t... | |
| Replacement Fuse's - What are my options ???? Geoffkait, you might want to open up the top lid of your components and trace the power wire to verify the direction of power in the fuse holder. In my previous components all externally accessible fuse holders had the power wired so that a proper... | |
| The best power conditioner for less than $1K? Actually Tvad, it was Tweakmenow who roped you guys back in after you posted your room acoustics recommendations.I'm a little surprised that Sempaul's using a Monster lc did not at least raise some eyebrows. He already has a line conditioner, but ... | |
| The best power conditioner for less than $1K? I agree with Tweakmenow. Everybody has dirty AC to one bad degree or another. Installing PROPER line conditioning is absolutely foundational to any system. In fact, once you've become accustomed to listening with excellent line conditioners you so... | |
| High End, and Rack Mountable Since the harm from floor-borne vibrations are negligible in comparison to the far more harmful air-borne and internally generated vibrations and resonance it is actually a very good thing to direct couple the components to the racking system. In ... | |
| Speltz anti-ic's vs Nordost QuattroFil I wouldn't say the claims are far-fetched about the Speltz cables especially with their anti-ics.Swapping in a 1m pair of the $100 Speltz anti-ics made my $3500 pair of ics sound veiled in highs and bloated in the bass. Which I sold immediately.Th... | |
| Bypass preamp, better sound, yet fatiguing? Jsadurni, it appears that you like to tweak quite a bit and that's good.However, from where I sit (in Salem, OR), it's difficult for me to see if you have any serious benchmarks in which to compare your tweaks.I've heard one very authoritative sou... | |
| Nuforce Jp1208, you bring up some good points about burn-in. I wouldn't worry too much about it though. I just installed my second pair of SEs this afternoon and again right out of the box they are easily superior to the Ref 9.02 Premiums. Considering how... | |
| Bypass preamp, better sound, yet fatiguing? Jsadurni, I wasn't necessarily making a statement in my last post. I was really seeking clarification on his use of the term fatiguing by asking Hgabert a question.But if we're talking a truly ear-fatiguing sound that can cause the 'ears to bleed'... | |
| Speltz anti-ic's vs Nordost QuattroFil I wouldn't necessarily consider the Speltz anti-ics warm or warmer. Although they are perhaps slightly more full-bodied than other similar performaning ics.I've compared the Speltz'ics to other cables that were performance competitive to the Nordo... | |
| Bypass preamp, better sound, yet fatiguing? Hgabert,Maybe I interpreted your original post incorrectly. You stated that without the preamp you are experiencing greater detail.But is it possible that you are using the term fatiguing when perhaps boring could be more appropriate?Generally, fa... |