subaruguru
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| arcam alpha 7 upgrade to alpha 9 or go to a cd92? The Alpha 9 indeed has a FAR better rez and midband naturalness than the 7, but STILL has relatively poor PRAT, which I would ghope the FMJ addresses. My local dealer DOES think the new ones are better, but MAYBE not equal to the FMJ.... | |
| Advise Needed, Best speakers for approx $15,000 I LOVE my Verity Audio Parsifal Encores. Solid, ethereal, compact, and GREAT in the nearfield, unlike most 3-ways.Have fun. | |
| Why do AC cords make so much difference? Great post, Sean. Thanks. | |
| Electrocompaniet EMC II CD Player Interestingly I bought a beautiful, very lightweight aluminum crank pulley for Subaru engines recently. A gorgeous, single-billet, finely machined work of art that results in a much lower inertia at the crank, thus improving quick-starts. This pul... | |
| Electrocompaniet EMC II CD Player Of course. I'm not suggesting that the tail wag the dog here, but it's clear that the RCA's wiring was considered secondary when it came to board design and connection layout. If one DOES have the option to use a balanced pre, all other things equ... | |
| Let's forget about being politically correct I read this thread backwards. Oh my.... | |
| Cables to mitigate CD glare -upper mids/lower hi's I used Discovery Essence for a more forgiving balance. But after the latest mod of my EMC-1 UP I'm able to use even Nordost SPM and STILL not have hard-sounding digititis on poorer quality CDs. I don't understand why this is an issue with the Accu... | |
| Placement,Treatments,Extreme Science Experiments ? I agree that your triangle is too small, reducing your sweet-spot to a requirement that your head be locked in a vise. Initially I'd say that cupping increased the frequency response, compared to YOUR ear's normal reference, a LOT in the lower tre... | |
| To balance or not to balance, that is the question TRULY balanced operation will yield exactly a +6dB increase, possibly lowered noisefloor, resulting in more perceived detail and top octave air.Fully complementary balanced designs thus usually sound better when run correctly (XLR) rather than jus... | |
| Separate ground for dedicated line Joeb, I hope Audiogon allows this response, as I resell cut lengths of Belden 8300 series cable for dedicated lines....I would try a SHIELDED power cable for your dedicated lines, connected to better duplexes, and then use SHIELDED PCs to your com... | |
| Room Demensions, am I in trouble? Nice post, Ozfly. Mhubbard, DO find Rives. I would suspect that you'll have to exoeriment with moving that sub around a lot. The Thiels go down pretty low, and with room support maybe you could do without it?! Sidewall reflection control is always... | |
| Video & Audio: Power, Ground, EMI, Noise in Cables THANKS! The reading glasses are here somewhere.... | |
| Why do AC cords make so much difference? Thanks, Audioengr. Can anyone add to BWhite's initial comments on a parallel thread re resonance-damping?... i.e.,use of fillers to isolate/absorb/quench electro-mechanical stuff (60 or 120Hz?...higher?) thought to be functional here.Furutech yell... | |
| bookshelf to floorstanding-real upgrade? The 1.3 was a nice speaker, albeit too flat-bright for most tastes. With a nice tube-amp I can see why they wowed you, though. Getting SMOOTH-freq response and CLONED-PAIR midranges is in my opinion still the greatest task for speaker manufacturer... | |
| Antenna questions SEan, thanks for the refresher on Q. The Hallicrafters has SIX selectable bandwiths (0.5kHz for code up to ultra-wide for "phono"...HA!), and an amazing selectable Q-adjustable "notch" filter to move in to squash a strong adjacent broadcast. Resul... |