subaruguru
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| wnat to downgrade my cables S23...liked your first post a lot...but not the knee-jerk assessment of tight correlation between price and quality of reproduction of the cable market your second supports. Have you ever tried the cheap Canare starquad cables all the pro recordin... | |
| Where to put the better cable. Try both ways, but if the lower "quality" (whatever that means) cable is really junk than you're better off NOT using it at all, and at least substituting a known inexpensive reference IC for comparisons. An easy wnner here is the $20 Canare StarQ... | |
| Can you switch out drivers from another company??? You may get a radically different total power response (especially if sidewalls are close by) if polar radiation characteristics are different too. And then there's the basic resonant frequency, power handling vis a vis crossover point, not to men... | |
| Electrocompaniet EMC1 CDP owner's suggestions Is this an SNL skit? | |
| Is there any obvious advantage for monoblocks? Don't underestimate shorter speaker cables and, in my case, extreme WAF! I was able to hang each mono off a basement joist just under each speaker, threading 8 foot cables up through the baseboards to each speaker. Look, Ellen, no Alephs! They run... | |
| NAD C522BEE here yet? Reports? Or is it BBE? | |
| VAC - any comments? Good or bad. TH, again perhaps the unit I borrowed was somehow seriously defective. FYI, output difference between triode abd ultralinear was +1.2 dB pink. That may or may not be a hint to VAC of whether this unit's performance was outlying the norms back in M... | |
| Inactive speakers in the room...any effect? Rather than go through the hassle of repeated trials with a bunch of humans (audiophiles, even!), it'd be easier to just set up a RatShack mic on a tripod and run the S'phile or other 1/3 octave bass warble tracks and compare the curves with and w... | |
| Pass Labs ALEPH 5 vs ALEPH 2 Good point, Sayas. With my EMC-1 and MD100 tuner I set gains at about 10 o'clock, using volume from noon to full max (4 o'clock). Still probably passive, but man does it sound active! | |
| Which headphone amplifier with balanced input? I just run my HD600s right off the RCAs of my EMC-1 SE! Seems the output is just right, although a bit loud on pop stuff. OTOH I rarely listen to the cans...mostly for discriminating PC changes rather than music listening, but I wonder how the Mer... | |
| I need a live great recording Benjamin Zander leading the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra in STRAVINSKY's Sacre de Printemps on Pickwick 1990 (now Carleton Records), live at Jordan Hall, Boston. The awaited revisit performance two years ago wasn't as good (alas).This was the fir... | |
| $250-$400 CD player recommendations? Prices for the new NADs will be the same: $299 and $499. The improvement in the 522BEE is purported to be much more than in the C542, narrowing the gap. With a street price of $250 it seems like it'll be the budget CDP for my HT, my daughters, fri... | |
| Can a Pinnacle subwoofer keep up with Spendor S3/5 I dunno, but the Boston PV1000 definitely keeps up with my Spendor front trio. Great $1k powered sub. | |
| Pass Labs ALEPH 5 vs ALEPH 2 Yes, all the 2 stage Alephs need a high-output pre; the Aleph P essentially provides the third stage that was there in the original first Aleph, I think, along with a fine servo-driven stepped attenuator. It's an incredibly quiet, neutral preamp, ... | |
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