stevecham
Responses from stevecham
| Meridian 508.24: Balanced vs Single-ended outputs? I run my 508.24 into a Krell KCT with a 1 meter XLR Harmonic Technologies Pro Silway 2 cable. I previously used a Synergistic Alpha Sterling RCA IC but this sounds better. Now the "noise floor" is simply not there. Total quiet background. | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? Toss up between Thiel CS6 and Vandersteen 5s. Gotta drive the Thiels with current however i.e. Krell | |
| Phono interconnect recommendation? Harmonic Technologies Silver is the cable I recently replaced the Synergistic Alpha Sterling with (not really a phono cable but a single-ended IC). Much, much improved and quieter, I don't even have to use the ground wires and the residual hum I h... | |
| Speaker cable recommendation ? You don't need to spend that much on speaker cables. Try Harmonic Technologies cables with single crystal copper and silver. You'll save a bundle, be very happy and have money left over for software, which really is the most important component! I... | |
| Interconnects & XLR cables for Bryston Amp/Preamp I used Bryston's own balanced cable (Belden) when my set up was BP25 to 7BST monoblocks. Sounded good and neutral. Also used Tara Labs Air 2 balanced between Meridian 508.24 CD player and BP25 and this was much improved over the Synergistic Resear... | |
| Koetsu Black I am loading my Urushi at 100 Ohms into a Krell reference phono stage and using Synergisitc Research Alpha Sterling for the phono cable. This is the only loading setting that reallymakes the cartridge sing. Also, the best VTA I'v efound is with th... |