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| SolidSteel 5.4 equipment stand owners - question I know nothing about the solidsteel racks but having designed a few racks of my own, more than likely what you've encountered is a machine shop that neglected to clean out the threaded parts of the points so all the grunge from the tapping is stop... | |
| long interconnects - earthly price? I triple dog dare you to find one whose performance matches or betters the Speltz anti-ic especially when the Speltz costs just a few hundred for this long run.I'm not saying you won't find one because there may be a few out there, but I doubt you... | |
| Audience Au24 with high current SS amps.... I had excellent results with mono and fully bi-wired versions of the Au24 speaker cables with my high-powered McCormack DNA-2 Revision A amplifier.Highy recommended.I realized further improvements by elevating the Au24's about 1/2" off the carpet.... | |
| Best subwoofer to complement my system. Actually, I don't think it's very difficult to implement a subwoofer into a system but it takes a little planning, experimentation with the sub placement, room size, and dialing in the proper configuration for crossover, volume, etc..Perhaps most ... | |
| Interconnects Needed/ Recommenditions? Paul Speltz anti-ics at abut $100 for a 1m pair. Second best interconnect I've yet heard. | |
| Your listening chair Nothing at all wrong with an ottoman so long as it's not leather which reflects rather than absorbs.-IMO | |
| New digital front end Yes, Thom_y, that's the same thread I saw several days ago where I first heard about the siginature upgrade.I'll admit I'm a little confused about your comment 'forget the upgrades' and then recommending another 'upgraded' product which you admitt... | |
| New digital front end Hi, Thom_y. I heard recently about some upgrades with EMM Labs but nothing specific. Do you know what mods were included in the Signature upgrade? | |
| Beautiful Equipment Stands? Well, did you ever decide on a new racking system? | |
| New digital front end "Forget the upgrades"? Thom, obviously that's easier said by one who's never heard one of these two APL modded units, then done by one who's heard both and the EMM dcc2/cdsd. :)-IMO | |
| New digital front end Earflappin, I would imagine it all depends on APL's current workload. Yes, it could take a month or two. I know that with the 3910s, APL was getting quite backlogged because of demand.Rumor has it (and that's all it is) that the vast majority of h... | |
| New digital front end If performance is the goal, I'd like to suggest adding to your list the the APL modified Denon 3910 or better still, the APL NWO-1 (an APL modified Esoteric ux-01 which also incorporates the best transport mechanism). Performance-wise both units a... | |
| Ground Isolation, removing sibelance. In my experience, negative sibilance is always induced by dirty AC of which we are all victims to one bad degree or antoher. Certainly, common grounding to the neutral buss does not help matters, but I'm not aware that the actual grounding is dire... | |
| Can anyone recommend a smooth, rich CD player? Shoe, I have to think that the so-called 'hyper-detail' that you mention may not be so hyper after all. Rather it may just be detail perhaps bordering on good to excellent.Real musical enjoyment is in all the little nuances, dynamics, tempo, dead-... | |
| Springs for homemade isolation stand Along the same vein as Markd51, you might also consider installing 3 feminine hygiene pads under each component, the rack, and each speaker. Although it's pretty much a crapshoot for sonic improvements, the pads not only provide a clean and compli... |