subaruguru
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| Power Cords - Pixie Dust? Ahem! I was a PC skeptic until two years ago, then tried a few $$ flavors, before building my own from Belden 83802, followed soon by a dedicated line from this magical stuff.Indeed it provides a lower noisefloor, and thus enhanced detail subtlety... | |
| B&W CDM 1NT alternatives B&W 602 SIII. Lots of boom and sizzle, with a fairly good midrange. Won't overly embarrass your receiver. KEF UniQ ones are smaller and much more attractive, and provide a broader listening angle, too. Yeah, I think you'll like the KEF. Doesn'... | |
| Where are you? Do you know what your FM is doing? Boston is incredibly blessed with a great, crowded non-commercial dial end. My faves are WGBH (especially for its live feeds!), WBUR (although it's become too talky), WUMB (U Mass Boston, for its fine folk programming), and of course WHRB (Harvard... | |
| HELP Electrocompaniet stole Christmas Swamp...but how are you going to do that? Ask for a serial number and then send it to BOTH a local distributor AND manufacturer and ask them if they'll support it in the US?Pretty tiresome, and maybe necessary, but certainly not a model for desire... | |
| HELP Electrocompaniet stole Christmas THANK YOU FOR REOPENING THIS THREAD!Some of you may know that this thread was closed for awhile. I wrote to A'gon and started a subsequent "continuation-thread" entitled ELECTROCOMPANIET REDUX. They declined to post the new thread, and I guess reo... | |
| Electrocompaniet owners IMPORTANT NEWS:Audiogon has mysteriously closed the important "HELP Electro..." thread, and blocked my posting an "extension" thread entitled ELECTROCOMPANIET REDUX!This happens at a VERY inopportune time, as just this morning I received an email ... | |
| Preamps for dummies that would be me Aside from the technical discussion...I'm VERY glad I chased a used Aleph P to drive my lowish-impedence Aleph 2 monos. Sometimes it's simply best to let the designer (Nelson Pass in this case) design the gain stage needed to drive the subsequent ... | |
| Balanced or Unbalanced, which way to go? Yes, it depends upon whether your source AND preamp offer true balanced design. In my case balanced operation offers MORE resolution and greater dynamics, and the +6dB output puts it squarely in the middle of my gain range, which is perfect. Good ... | |
| would this Deter you from buying used gear???? My brother-in-law went to the trouble of buying a new Steinway ONLY if he could have the remaining Steinway sign the soundboard. He stupidly bought too large a piano for his square room (oy!). Wonder if his reasoning of increased-resale value will... | |
| Resonant Modes & Room dimension 8 and 15 are getting kind of close, no? I have 8x14x24 and love it. Maybe you could use stuffed furniture along the long sides to effectively chop up the 15, as well reduce first reflections (assuming you're putting the speakers on this wall). Roo... | |
| Small floorstander recommendations If the Spendor sounds anything like its stand-mounted S3/1p Classic Series predecessor then I would think it's GREAT value for $1500 list. | |
| Phase and time alligned speakers Judith, please don't make the mistake of interchanging phase issues in ELECTRICAL paths (wires)with those of MECHANICAL/ACOUSTIC transducers in AIR!I'm getting a bit above MY depth here, too, but some wire manufacturers would have you believe that... | |
| OK to use curtain to obtain the optimum room size? Why are you doing this? If it's because you're only going to use part of a room for your system, and NOT an important aestheic requirement (spousal acceptance factor? Ha!), then why not set up your system and start fine-tuning speaker position? In... | |
| What Power Cord for EAR 834P Abruce, a good PC on ANY highly-transparent phono stage can make a difference! Just the potential lowering of the noisefloor will yield benefits of increased delicacy of detail, and hence perceived improvement of so-called "microdynamics". If you ... | |
| Men & Women & Bass I just tried a 9-13 Hz Chinese random-wave generator to massage my lower spine. Supposed to be a high-amplitude adjunct to the body's natural alpha waves. Feels like a cat sitting on me "purring", which is my wife's daily evening treat. However, m... |