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| What Mods for a pre/pro to become a good preamp? Agaffer, perhaps you are correct as a general rule of thumb. But then there are always excepts to those rules. I own a Primare P30 pre/pro and a Chapter Audio Pre-amp which retails for almost 3 times the price of the P30.I've also owned and A/B co... | |
| Power Conditioner Helpful? That depends, Richard. Just like any other product in this world, there are some to many line conditioners that simply are not worth owning. And for good reason. Some of which include:1. They induce their own shortcomings by suppressing certain fr... | |
| Best speaker cable in the $2,500 range You are making lots of sense. However, I believe that those attributes you seek are most frequently found in the amplifier. Not cabling.I believe if cabling is doing it's job properly, it will for the most part only accentuates what is already the... | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test Thanks for the update, Maxgain. BTW, nice system and clean install you have there.-IMO | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test Maxgain, I would tend to agree with your statements. I only came across this thread earlier today and without careful reading it seemed as though some overly complicated 'A/B'ing was about to occur.With my little test case, I have three Foundation... | |
| Best speaker cable in the $2,500 range Without a doubt, a good component is a good component no matter what other equipment is surrounding it. Although inferior equipment surrounding it might easily mask the positive attributes of a good component, it still remains a good component.Up ... | |
| Best speaker cable in the $2,500 range Audiokinesis is exactly right. But that's also a no-brainer and hopefully goes without saying because system synergy is involved in every other aspect of audio as well i.e. room acoustics, ics, pre-amps, amps, cdps, tts, speakers, line-conditioner... | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test Any results yet? I recently installed my first cryo-treated Hubbell 20amp IEC (from Jena Labs) onto my passive in-line power conditioner that connects to my amplifier. This cryo-treated Hubbell 20amp IEC replaced my stock non-cryo-treated Hubbell ... | |
| Best speaker cable in the $2,500 range Some to many (including a reviewer in Stereophile Aug, 03) claim the Audience Au24 speaker cables are superior to the Nordost Valhallas.It's amazing what the Au24's have done to remove time-smear in the bass regions and to remove grain and hash at... | |
| Cryoing of audio equipment Oohlala, that is a very good question and to be honest I wouldn't have the foggiest. But I would venture a guess that the Jena Labs' non-cryo-treated 20 amp Hubbell IEC connector would sound quite similar to the replaced non-Jena Labs non-cryo-tre... | |
| Cryoing of audio equipment I just installed my first Jena Labs cryo-treated Hubbell 20amp IEC onto my passive in-line power conditioner that connects to my amplifier. The improvements were substantial and surprising. Of course, now I'm going to have to order more Jena Labs ... | |
| Cheap tweaks...What would YOU reccomend? Just one Jena Labs cryo-treated 20amp IEC connector on the amp end of my Foundation Research LC-2 in-line power conditioner provided fascinating improvements at both the micro- and macro-dynamic levels.-IMO | |
| What type of copper is best for power cable? JenaLabs.com sells many AC parts including Marinco and Hubbell IEC connectors, outlets, plugs, etc., all of which are cryogenically treated.As to the solid core verses stranded, I prefer solid core for most apps, but as with most everything else i... | |
| adaptor studs for speaker spikes needed Star Sound's Audio Points are deemed by some to be the very best points available and their prices are very reasonable compared to many other brands.I use them under all components, racking system, and speakers and the sonic improvements were noth... | |
| Last Speakers Aerial 20T or Vandersteen 5A Having heard of but never listened to any of the components or speakers you list, I figure I'm qualified to be wrong as much as anybody.As to the room size, I don't believe that is an issue at all unless it is deemed a very 'live' room acousticall... |