stehno
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| Older PURE CLASS-A Amplifiers I know of one who owns some 20-plus year old Classe model D-25 (I believe) and really enjoys them. He also has had much exposure to and has owned some outstanding amps.-IMO | |
| Where to start with room treatments? Almost regardless of room acoustics, speaker placement should give you some of the greatest sonic improvements.It's free, but it can take months to locate the best spot. It took me about 9 months before I became satisfied. (That's averaging about ... | |
| Subwoofer Cables. How important is quality? Quality is very important in a sub-woofer cable (and everywhere else) and my hunch is there aren't many that believe it nor are there many quality-oriented middle-of-the-road ics/cables that will suffice.I don't know much more than to say that som... | |
| McCormack pres/amps and Steve's mods The DNA-2 Revision A amp is a beautiful sounding amp and I too intend to keep it for quite some time.The previous owner of the DNA-2 Rev A replaced it with a DNA 0.5 Rev A Gold because his Vandersteen Model 5s have active woofers and he didn't nee... | |
| What's wrong with this system? I'd suggest replacing the NAD int. amp with perhaps a McCormack DNA 0.5 amp (and an inexpensive preamp) or perhaps an Audio Refinement Complete int. amp.Next, I would look at proper line conditioning, installing dedicated circuits/lines, etc..More... | |
| THE05: Dynamic Contrasts: comments Hey, thanks for the comments guys. And, Tom it was a pleasure to finally meet you.I still muster a hearty laugh regarding that one incident.Who woulda' thunk that Mike would not stop trying once he reached the locked door? It must have taken me 5 ... | |
| Best Value System Thf, I believe the best value system has far less to do with costs, components, and/or room acoustics than anyone (except perhaps me) would care to admit. To qualify that statement I'll jump right in stating there are six requirements that I belie... | |
| what amp. to power areial 10-t speakers I've owned about 6 SS amplifiers connected to my 10T's in the last 4 years. Including a few highly rated amps.But none of those even come close to my McCormack DNA-2 Revision A amp that I've now owned for 2 years.As stated above, the 10Ts seem to ... | |
| Review: Foundation Research LC1 & LC2 Power cord Thanks, John.The US distributor is musicfirstdistribution.com. | |
| Forego Line Conditioner for an Ayre CX-7? Ayre is an exception to the status quo as are a few other mfg'ers.The reason is because Ayre has attempted to address line-conditioning/filtering their own way. If I remember one of their older ads correct, they have what they call Ayre Conditione... | |
| what's the next upgrade I agree with Slv, Twl, and Warrenh. But Newbee? NEVER! :) Seriously though, I would put properly addressing vibration control, properly addressing line-conditioning, installing dedicated circuits/lines, and speaker placement at the top of any syst... | |
| what do I upgrade? Allen, as a general rule electricians are not electrical engineers and therefore, no not what they speak when it comes to benefits of electrical tweaks. Everybody has dirty AC and therefore everybody can benefit from properly treated AC, every dig... | |
| what do I upgrade? I agree with several other posters above regarding the dedicated circuits/lines and line-conditioning. However, I would specifically suggest Foundation Research LC-1 and LC-2 line-conditioners. These are both passive (no current draw onto themselv... | |
| Best equip stands Labtec, you made the statement, "I'm pretty darn certain no one can, since it doesn't exist or would be close to impossible to prove." Do you really think that is a credible statement? And of course, I'd love to know how you know that one.As for p... | |
| Best equip stands Labtec, does it really matter who told me about this mechanical break-in? There's no snake oil to sell here.Mechanical break-in for certain products following certain methodologies either exists or does not. You don't make it false and I don't mak... |