subaruguru
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| Pass Aleph 1.2s.... Anyone familiar Mikeam, certainly your empiricism is compelling...wonder if there's something unusually cruel about that speaker's impedence curve? | |
| EMC1 mk2 vs Cary 306/200... Yeah...how's it going? | |
| Heat Shrink Tubing - How ??? Put it in an oven. | |
| Power Cord Recommendation For DSS? I have a few nice Belden shielded 14/3 PCs on auction for $9.Gotta be better, and stupidly cheap. Try one before you blow $$ on this application. Ern | |
| B&W Nautilus 802 compared to 804 Hmm...I too would consider the 803s IF you can sit far enough back from them to get good coherence. I couldn't.Frankly, I'd swap out the 804s for the Revel Performa F30 if nearfield listening is required. Otherwise get the 803 and forget adding th... | |
| Recordings that trounce your system? Driver, you poor dear. How can you possibly still have a functioning carburetor on that Honda?! Actually, the 83-87 Civics weren't terrible cars, but clearly the 88-91 were Honda's best care ever, especially the 1.6 EX or Si. Up here in the rust b... | |
| Your advice on a good cable I agree with Onhwy. Also found the Red Dawn and Harm Tech to be excellent (and indistinguishable) with a budget CDP.Only when securing a far better front end (emc-1) did I notice how hollow the midrange is on both of these ICs, for example. So per... | |
| FMJ CD 23 vs Rega Jupiter The FMJ has better tonality and smoothness, but can't keep a beat.The Rega dances to beat the band, but I don't remember much else, and thus can't further comment.Take 'em home and demo! Good luck. | |
| foiled again... Afraid everybody's right here: if you don't get those speakers WAY out in front of the TV you'll be dramatically compromising the soundstaging potential of 2 channel.I have a decent pair of speakers flanking our TV, and it's fine for that, and DVD... | |
| Cd Player shootout ; which is the best of the best Jmr,I too have the Parsifal Encores (aren't they great?!), and am REALLY pleased with my EMC-1 MkII up front, running balanced into Aleph P and 2 monos. Certainly NOT too bright, and with an effortless dynamisn even at lower gain settings! At firs... | |
| Pass Aleph 1.2s.... Anyone familiar I have Aleph 2 monos (100/200 8/4) driven by a P, and find it thoroughly effortless with an 88dB/1w speaker with a 4 ohm woofer quite flat to 30Hz in room.The lowish imput impedence DOES preclude passive use, IMO.Using a P also allows running bala... | |
| One speaker louder than the other Sounds like messed up crossovers, as Paradigm specs their drivers more tightly than a 4 dB window. Do they SOUND different, too? Hard to believe you got two bad ones in the group. Sheesh! | |
| Best CD Player under 4000 to replace Linn Genki Sorry, Jeff, but I would replace the 804N first! Unless your room somehow makes 'em work well, I found their spectral tilt to be just too weird. The 803N is far better balanced, although it requires a large room to cohere well.You could probably f... | |
| Quest for Audiophile Zen Gotta start with the Thiels in the room.First order crossovers can require careful placement, and most Thiels sound a bit uptilted in any but the deadest rooms. Blah, blah, blah...we all know this.Here's a smaller bit of it, though:I was REALLY su... | |
| What connection is better Balanced or single ended Nice post, Aknorth, but please, isn't it illegal to feed anybody's eagle? Protected endangered species, and all that?No question that my EMC-1 sounds better (not just louder) balanced. I'm about to get an MD100 tuner, and the folks who make it str... |