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why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable
I think you nailed it. 
Long speaker cable modification
If the cable is either MIT or Transparent, then inside the box you will find a coil and a resistor or two. I cut a pair of 20 foot MIT Terminator 2 cables with a huge inline box attached and tried both shorter cables both with and without the netw... 
Parasound A21 or Odyssey Stratus
Almarg............I use an Audible Illusions Modulus 3B all tube preamp with my Stratos Extreme with zero problems.Papostol...........I have a Rogue Cronus Magnum in a second system and I do not find it lean at all. You can swap out the preamp tub... 
Kickstarter Tone Audio?
I donated to Kickstarter the first day and I now have 2 print issues reserved for me. 
The choice of my new CD player
The Sony 5400 and Oppo 105 cd drive mechanism is absolutely no match for Esoteric VRDS NEO drive. Not even close. If I were the poster, I would keep what I had. I doubt he would see much difference from the 03se to the 03x.I have an Esoteric UX3 p... 
Suggested PC laptop models for computer audio
I have a windows based Asus 14' laptop with 8gb ram and Intel I-3 processor and usb3. I also have a 2tb Western Digital usb3 hard drive with ALL my music files. I run J. Rivers 21 with excellent results. I have turned off every Windows service whi... 
Any Audio Research Reference 610T Owners here?
ARC more than likely have the tubes needed for the amp in matched sets. 
New Tekton Pendragons On The Way
Phusis.............I agree with you completely. I once drove to Annapolis, Maryland and back home in 1 day. It was a 925 mile trip for a pair of DeVore speakers. I didn't like them and sold them 3 months later. 
Bowers and Wilkerson B&W 802 D3: an impolite Brit?
I have found that every B & W speaker I have auditioned over the past few years came across as bright, edgy and very fatiguing. 
Wacky Question about cartridges
Dynavector DV20X? 
CD Sound ; Esoteric x-03 versus Oppo 105
I have an Esoteric UX-3 SACD player which is the same as the X-03 minus the video portion. This is the smoothest most natural sounding player I have ever owned and heard. When I picked this player up at Spearit Sound, the dealer told me this is on... 
New Tekton Pendragons On The Way
I learned a valuable lesson. Free trial is nice but you have to consider the possibility of sending the item back and the costs involved. It cost me 295.00 to send the speakers back via FedEx with insurance. Never again. 
New Tekton Pendragons On The Way
ZD542................Not possible. The speakers are already boxed and are going out via FedEx this afternoon. I only hope the boxes survive the trip back to the factory as they were pretty beat up by FedEx when they first arrived. 
New Tekton Pendragons On The Way
Ladok........The speakers were broken in enough and when I put the speakers in my main system downstairs, the bass was good. It's the room, not the speakers. 
New Tekton Pendragons On The Way
Almarg,When I say no difference, yes the sound was diffused and vague, but since the bass was weak, the difference if any was slight. I brought the speakers downstairs and inserted them into my main system. The room is 16 by 18. The bass was excel...