stuartbranson
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| Need good speaker cable for modest system. Get in touch with greggstraley@yahoo.comHis are the best value I've come across. Excellent sound. Open, detailed, good soundstage all with a money back guarantee. | |
| How to avoid hum and hiss to speakers from amps. Two friends had been complaining about a hum through the speakers. Both problems solved with a power conditioner. | |
| great little speakers One more for Reference 3A. I have the De Capo I's and they're great. | |
| wnat to downgrade my cables I bought the cables recommended in by "Listener57" and I am very pleased. As much as memory serves they turned out to be every bit as good as my Yamamuras. Very detailed, clean and precise sound. No etchiness or harshness at all. Very musical. Suc... | |
| wnat to downgrade my cables Thanks for all the sources! I have ordered a set of speaker cables from Gregg Straley as recommended from Listener57's post. We had a good correspondance so I thought I'd try his DIY design for 8' pair of sp. cable for $175 with a 1m pr. of IC's t... | |
| Personal amp evolution Creek 4330, Cary SLP-50b/Linn LK-85's active, Cary SLI-80, Vaic 300b SE. I think I will live with this for some time. 15w SET amp with 302b output tubes. | |
| Anyone heard Mastersound Amps? I have a Mastersound/Vaic 300b SE integrated amplifier and love the beautiful SET sound. Unfortunately I cannot comment on your question with any comparison to other amps other than with my set-up I love this amp except for the bass. The low end i... | |
| Favorite integrated amp? Still working on it. | |
| Favorite integrated amp? If you want tubes, I love the Cary SLI-80. It's near the top of your budget. Switchable b/w 40w and 80w. Very easy to bias and sounds great. Looks great too! I used it with a Cary CD-308 and MM deCapo i's speakers. Plenty of power and great bass. ... | |
| Canadian tariffs, duties, etc? Don't use UPS. They DO rip us off. I have been charged as much as 50% of the purchase price. Stehno is wrong in that there IS FedEx ground shipping to Canada and it's tracking system is second to none. | |
| wnat to downgrade my cables Did you terminate the speaker cables? I see some used lengths for sale that seem cheap enough for an experiment. Hmmm... | |
| wnat to downgrade my cables So how does that stuff work? Can you just chop a 25' lenth into four and bare-wire it to the terminals? Guess I'll look it up. | |
| wnat to downgrade my cables Ouch! You slay me. | |
| wnat to downgrade my cables Well my price range has changed. I started this looking for a $200 cable(used) that would replace the $450-500 Yamamuras (used). I was hopeful that someone would know my gear or the type of sound I would like and give me some avenues for research.... | |
| wnat to downgrade my cables I have borrowed and now bought a Mastersound/Vaic 300b SE, 15w SET integrated amp. Much more revealing of cable differences and now I feel that my choices are much harder. In fact I have no idea how to choose anymore. It's my first foray into the ... |