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| bi wire ????????? Most seem to claim speaker cables should be hooked up to mids/highs when using mono-wiring for bi-wireable speakers. And certainly if there is any doubt, always connect to the mids/highs connectors as the bass section is typically a tad bit more f... | |
| Building a Home Theater Room The more dedicated circuits/lines you incorporate, the better potential sonic and video benefits you'll get.But the greatest benefit of dedicated circuits/lines is still for the 2-channel equipment as previously stated above.-IMO | |
| Building a Home Theater Room QZ, you would be amazed at the sonic improvements when having one dedicated line per component does. The amplifier should have it's own 20 amp dedicated line, while the cd player and preamp should have their own 15 amp circuits/lines. The cd playe... | |
| Open-Minded or Gullible? Some ideas and products are legitimate while others are not. Sometimes the legitimacy is there, but there's simply no way an inferior system can reveal such benefit. Hence the illusion that it's snake oil.Therefore, just to be all-encompassing and... | |
| Building a Home Theater Room You might entertain the following:o Add 3 more dedicated 15 amp circuits/lines. You can never have enough.o Keep windows on sides and back walls to absolute minimum.o Install wood beams across the ceiling that are parallel to the speaker fronts. P... | |
| Subwoofers? You might try an inexpensive pair of Audience Conductor series ic's with your sub. It's amazing how the entire line of Audience cables will minimize time smear and provide at least some subs a much more accurate lower bass reproduction. Some Audie... | |
| Subwoofer, Active Vs. Passive Slappy, although I've made a comment or two about active and passive subs, I hope you don't think it was me who used the word crappy.However, I wouldn't hesitate to use the word mediocre. As I don't believe there's one active speaker/subwoofer mfg... | |
| Good Universal Player with Balanced Outs SACD and redbook is about as universal as I care to go. For that, I would recommend the Sony SCD-1 or 777es cdp's.As for the XLR outs, I wouldn't want it any other way. Every now and then a certain amp comes along that does fabulous things with th... | |
| Edmund Fitzgerald-Which Gordon Lightfoot LP? Excellent song. | |
| Placette, VS First Sound VS Audio Synthesis Passio The Placette Active Linestage is a beautiful preamp. In it's egonomics, aesthetics, and sweet sweet highs, along with a decay that go on forever. A real silkiness is also added to the presentation.However, it was not quite what I prefer. Simply be... | |
| To Pick a Cable,,,,,, To answer your second question first. Yes. I have installed a cryo-dipped hubbell IEC at the end of my 20amp dedicated line and plugged it directly into my amp. It wasn't pretty. It took all of about 5 seconds to recognize the negative sibilance w... | |
| Power cords for Wadia 861 The 'great synergy' that you seek can be found only in a power cable that does no sonic harm, offers 2-way filtration, and does not limit current. Therefore, the power cable that you seek should generically produce the same sonic benefits in any c... | |
| Loosing dynamics with power plant I believe that PS Audio power conditioners are known for their current limiting. This combined with your Pass Labs X-250, which I believe draws more current than most similarly powered amps would appear to me to be sort of a double whammy.Why it t... | |
| No Feedback Flakes There are also those whose accounts have been suspended from A'gon. Yet, they still have the ability to send email to members inquiring about products and often times doing exactly as you describe.The exact behavior that got them booted off of A'g... | |
| Vocabulary question Perhaps Peter Moncrief of IAR (Intern'l Audio Review) said it best during his reviewing a fast amp, perhaps the fastest in 1998. To paraphrase Moncrief's description of this fast amp: "(This fast amp) effortlessly reveals layers of musical nuance,... |