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| Calling all Von Schweikert VR-9 owners My hunch is that the electrical is the culprit.You make no mention of having dedicated circuits/lines. I will assume you do.Some to many of your dedicated circuits, lines, and/or outlets may be sharing the same phase / leg at the service panel wit... | |
| Cables /power conditioner- Order of importance By far power conditioning would rank first and foremost on my list. Simply because 'proper' line conditioning is so fundamental and foundational to the overall performance and listenability of a given system. It's still one of the final frontier's... | |
| Best power amp below US $ 20.000,00 ?? If you put any stock in Chris Martens' review at The Absolute Sound (http://nuforce.com/reviews/TAS-Ref9.pdf), the world class amps that he compared them to, their receiving a Golden Ear award and Editor's Choice Award for 2005, as well as a numbe... | |
| ISOLATION: HRS,SYMPOSIUM,SRA,ZOETHECUS?? Onhwy61 makes some excellent points.Although I would differ with his last statement that it is virtually impossible to compare different designs. However, it can be rather cumbersome considering what is entailed with swapping out racks. ItÂ’s also ... | |
| Used Preamp for $2000 to $3000 I'm going to toss in my Chapter Audio Preface preamp that I recently put up for sale on Agon for $2900. I've owned a number of preamps including the Placette Active Linestage, Pass Labs X2.5, X-1, and a few others, and this 1.5 year old $8500 msrp... | |
| Nuforce Nice assessment, Plato.As one who dabbles with performance-oriented racking systems utilizing the resonance energy transfer (aka coupling) methodology, my limited experience tells me that as you said any product's performance can be influenced(som... | |
| Has anyone compared Oyaide against FIM Who's Robert Maicks? :) | |
| Has anyone compared Oyaide against FIM I sold my FIMs after installing the Oyaides. I then installed cryo-ed Oyaides.The build quality of the FIMs and Oyaide outlets are probably the best both from a workmanship and materials perspective. But the Oyaides appear to be the better.The non... | |
| Wheres my week link???? I agree with Jdombrow as I'm a big fan of AC line conditioning, dedicated circuits/lines, cryo-treated lines, etc., but proper AC line conditioning and tweaking has everything to do with the lowered noise floor, pristine sonics, enhanced soundstag... | |
| Wilson Spikes Morbius, my understanding is that your point, though good, is also debatable (not by me of course) as there are educated people with views on boths sides.Ultimately, I don't know which is true, but because of the obvious improvements to me, I hope... | |
| Wilson Spikes Why not Chad? In fact I've had one of my entire racks including the associated Audio Points (12 in all) cryo-treated.It makes just as much sense as cryo-treating electronic parts as both act as conduits transfering energy.In one case it's electric... | |
| Wilson Spikes Gregm, that was really funny!! LOL.Dmurfet, I don't know if Wilson or many other component manufacturers claim much if anything about the mechanical diodes (spikes) they make and/or sell with their products. I wouldn't be surprised if some to many... | |
| Isoclean Fuses I installed 5 of them in my old McCormack DNA-2 Rev. A. 1 external and 4 internal.The 4 internals actually made for a very decent improvement eliminating a bit of harshness, adding a slightly fuller/richer sound, and adding a bit more detail on th... | |
| A brutal review of the Wilson Maxx Brutal is right. I've read some of Hardesty's articles a few years ago and enjoyed them and even had the pleasure to meet him at CES earlier this year.At the very least, Hardesty brings up some interesting points. How valid or invalid they may be ... | |
| Could some one explain how to buy best cables? Money rarely has anything to do with it, Nil.Rather it appears to have everything to do with quality of parts, workmanship, and methodology.For example, the Paul Speltz' Anti-ics at $100 for a 1 meter XLR pair blew away my pair of $3500 (retail) X... |