stevecham
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| Anticables GK: Speaker wires don't need shielding. They are high signal and are immune to RF.I have their Level 2 ICs and speaker cables. They sound fine. | |
| Amsued To Death - Roger Waters CD I like them all as well as all the Floyd, Wright and Gilmour stuff. Even The Final Cut dang it. | |
| What albums, in your opinion, sound unquestionably better on Vinyl rather than Digital? All first pressings:The Band - Songs From Big PinkThe Band - The BandSteely Dan (any)Beatles - Abbey Road (EMI import)Pink Floyd - Meddle (EMI import)Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (EMI import)Genesis (any up to including And Then There Were Thr... | |
| Curious what people think is the best "value" high end speaker (~5K to 15K) Thiel CS2.4 is now a tremendous value speaker if you can find a clean pair. | |
| I took the plunge - PS Audio Stellar DAC and S300 I have a Stellar Gain Cell DAC on the way to hopefully replace several components as I downsize my system. Report to follow and add to this thread. The one thing it doesn’t have that I wish it did, is a dedicated line out for recording. | |
| Why Does All Music Sound the Same; An Explanation Judicious use of compression, absolutely good; George Peckham and Bernie Grundmann good; saturating limiters bad. | |
| Why Does All Music Sound the Same; An Explanation The long term use of hypercompression in the mastering studio has finally killed pop music. Not only does it suck out all the dynamic range out of the music, in so doing it scrubs all emotional content as well.Devices such as the following are als... | |
| No one actually knows how to lculate what speaker cable they need Ya, some business. If the OP doesn't approve of your amp/speaker combination he will refuse to help you. It's like a revisit of the Seinfeld soup nazi episode: "No Cables For You!" | |
| Thiel Owners Anyone interested in a near mint pair of amberwood CS6s? If so let me know and I'll post the ad.I have 2.4s and the 6s are too large for my room since I moved a little over a year ago. Time for them to have a good home elsewhere. | |
| VPI Aries 3 - Funk Firm 3mm Acromat Don't do it. You are not going to improve anything over the direct platter and clamp that VPI designed for that table. I have an Aries 2 and tried something similar. It only degraded the sound. I do use a Herbies on my Technics SL1200GR though and... | |
| Repair repair vendor will not respond Launch a small claims action. This will get delivered in person (it has to be received by someone at the address) by a local sheriff or peace officer and you will know if they successfully delivered it. | |
| Which EL34 is your favorite and why? For currently manufactured tubes my preference is Tung-Sol followed by JJ. My favorite supplier for these is Tube Depot. I have purchased many preamp, driver and power tubes from them over the years and not once had a dud. | |
| Requirements for Moving Coil setup You need a phono preamp with MC capability whose inputs you can plug your turntable/cartridge into and then that same phono preamp's outputs into a line-in input on your Bryston 2B preamp. | |
| Military grade Of course they do. The MIG could blow things up while the Blackbird could only take pictures, but what pictures!Also, wire from the bathyscaph Trieste went to the bottom of the Mariana's trench, now that's pressure treated! The sonics must be subt... | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? nonoise: when I was a kid my stepdad used to drag race at New England Dragway (Ford GT500), as it was called then and I got to hang in the pits. Very educational. I do recall one event where some pro stock car had magnesium wheels (real mag wheels... |