stehno
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| Power Conditioners and Voltage Stabilzers My favorite are the Foundation Research LC-1 and LC-2 passive and dedicated in-line power conditioners. I've owned these for each of my components for almost 3 years now. My experience with line conditioners is limited but perhaps Marty DeWulf sai... | |
| What Do You Get When You Spend Megabucks? That's a good question. My response would be; It's all to easy to spend $150k to $250k and end up with a system that sounds like a decent $5000 system.As a friend told me a few years ago, "This is a hobby that requires one to spend a lot of money ... | |
| Laid back, or in-your-face? For sure, I'm not the best to judge this, but I think and certainly hope that my system is both laid back and 'in your face' depending almost entirely on the recording and microphone placement.-IMO | |
| Damping Vibration - Friend or Foe? Barry, nice review on the Gilmores and I appreciate your being a firm believer in 'overkill'. Also, sorry for the unexpected side-bar earlier this week.Regarding your previous responses to my post, I would agree with you regarding the air-borne vi... | |
| McCormack DNA-225 -VS- Parasound Halo JC-1 Monoblk Hey Daltonlanny. I've not listened to either amp but I do have some experience of owning a few of McCormack's better amps. Especially his custom DNA amps that are rebuilt with aftermarket parts.Regardless, based on the write-ups on both of the amp... | |
| Do not use stock jumpers Infinity_audio, does it never end? I have a friend that has been suggesting to do exactly that. But I've resisted since I hate to torque the binding posts unnecessarily on my 6 year old speakers. I currently have the leads going to the mid/highs a... | |
| Do not use stock jumpers I have similar experiences with my Au24's and jumpers. The only problem with mine were that the Au24 jumpers with banana terminations were not as solid a connection as I would prefer.So I re-installed the stock jumpers along with the Au24 jumpers ... | |
| Stereophile confirms new gear is getting worse.... Hello? Is anybody there? I have taken the liberty of moving this topic back to the thread in which I was in simply because I know how to do this. threadous _postous_interruptous-IMO | |
| Damping Vibration - Friend or Foe? threadous _postous_interruptous Golly, Sean. Are you calling me out? I mean, I've seen you take far greater punches than my silly little comment last evening.I guess that's why I find it somewhat strange that you have singled out my comment about ... | |
| Damping Vibration - Friend or Foe? Barry, I was hoping that you might comment on my previous post regarding the car and subwoofer analogy. I know it's not a great analogy, but I think there are some real world applications in there somewhere.Thanks, | |
| Damping Vibration - Friend or Foe? Barry, Now you did it. You went and made Sean angree. Do you know what Sean did to the last mfg'er that made him angree? Just ask the folks around here or at Legacy.It was not pretty. {I shudder just thinking about it}.Well, Barry, it's, um, been ... | |
| Damping Vibration - Friend or Foe? Barry, I wholeheartedly agree that vibration handling, electrical, and room acoustics are, in and of themselves, all very critical areas that should be proactively addressed individually. As properly addressing these items can translate to a real ... | |
| Granite vs Wood DIY Audio Racks? Very nice system, Steves71. The 1" threaded rods are overkill and will also lead to increased expenses. I'd suggest sticking with 5/8-11 inch thread.TWL works for Star Sound Technologies who mfg'er the best Audio Points in the business and perhaps... | |
| Details don't mean a thing Assuming we're talking about good music here, however small or great the details, beautifully reproduced music is truly in those details. But it has to be a forest for the trees perspective. Or perhaps the final presentation of the detailed music ... | |
| After 5 years, format war? What format war? Sogood51, it just so happens that I thoroughly enjoy my 2-channel SACD/cd player (for redbook cd's) via the pre/pro I use in my 2-channel only setup.Perhaps some to many enthusiasts are not as quirky as you think. :)-IMO |