steveaustin
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| Wadia 170i transport experience? I have one too, and it has helped me to rediscover the joys of my California Audio Labs Alpha tubed DAC, which is what I run it through (after the signal has first run through a Monarchy DIP, but it sounded pretty great even before I added the DIP... | |
| Quicksilver rca interconnects I have a couple pair of the Quicksilver ICs. I firmly believe that if Mike Sanders at Quicksilver advertised as most of his competitors do, the prices of his products would be 50% higher than they are. In an audio world where higher price is so of... | |
| Need help with choosing a transport. Could be that the Delta really only shines with it's accompanying Alpha DAC? (which is all I've ever had it hooked up to ... the proverbial 'synergistic' match up)Tonyptony and Casouza bring up some really good points above about avoiding a transp... | |
| Need help with choosing a transport. California Audio Labs Delta, maybe? May seem like a dated and not very exciting choice, but a lot of people have them and keep them, or sell them and later regret doing so when they realize what they 'upgraded' to didn't really increase their enjo... | |
| Will the RB-300 fit the Linn Axis? Any of the Audioquest arms will drop right in as well (same geometry as the Linn arms). I believe the AQ arms are arguably at least as good as the RB-300 and can be had for around the same money. | |
| man do I miss Tower records and As is often the case in life, you don't know what you've got until it's gone, eh? I used to spend (waste?) countless hours in the Tower here in Austin, TX. Several places to buy used vinyl here in town (thankfully) but Tower (along with Warerloo R... | |
| Heard my friend's system, thinking of leaving hifi I second Pdreher's recommendation of a REL Storm III sub. The single biggest improvement to my system was adding an active sub, especially the REL, which gets its signal from the amps, not the pre-amp, and a seamless blend with your speakers is ea... | |
| martin logan vs magnepan sound I owned the smaller M-L Aerius i's a few years back, and heard some of the larger models at the dealer's. Got to hear a Audio Research VT100 hooked up to both a pair of M-L Requests AND a larger pair of Maggies (forget the model number - 1.3 maybe... | |
| Noise from phono. Help please. I've driven myself batty chasing down the same gremlins in the past. I DO know that basing your noise level "frame of reference" on what you hear when your pre-amp is set to "CD" when comparing phono noise levels is a recipe for total frustration.... | |
| Name your favorite sax solo. John Handy's solo on Mingus' "Goodbye Porkpie Hat" (the version on Mingus Ah Um)- *beautiful*. | |
| LCD TV's Digital toslink Out Thanks for your thoughts on this. Don't think I have the option to do PCM output from the TV the way I do on my DVD player.You've saved me from buying a Monarchy DIP, only to find out it won't do the trick -- so thanks :)Kind of weird -- my best-l... | |
| Adding a Base to Floorstanding Speakers I have slender floorstanders (Ruark Prologue Ones) that are prone to knockovers (with two big dogs and a toddler running around the house). I had Sound Anchors make me some custom spiked platforms that replaced the largely ineffective plinths that... |