subaruguru
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| Speaker Cable Lengths - W/ Monos WAF issues resulted in my hanging my monos under the speakers' floor joists, then running 8' cables through the floor at the baseboards. Nice result: hidden (and cooler-running!) Class A monos, and only 8' cables. (Long UNinsulated Red Dawn XLR'd ... | |
| Cones/Bearings for CD player Another vote for the Neuance shelf as an isolation AND drainage sink. Worked wonders under my CDP: cleaning up and integrating the top octaves better than cones, and WITHOUT the temporal smearing of air bladders. Music seems simply more coherent, ... | |
| Naim CDX vs. Wadia 850 vs. RA CD-55 Hifinut: I was planning to try to demo the CD5 soon. I too wonder why you're giving yours up? Let me know if it's for sale, as the nearest dealer is a 1/2 day rt by car. Thanks/Ernie | |
| Nordost Red Dawn revII vs SPM Rackon--thanks for your comments. I wondered about RFI before buying the Nordost, but as my pre/mono ICs are balanced, and the CDP/pre IC is only 1m RCA, and I have an incredibly quiet background, I would doubt that I have RF infiltrant. I think m... | |
| Room acoustics - yet again I too am blessed (!) with a very irregularly-shaped room(s):a two-foot sofa-enclosed jog-out on the left wall, and a 45- angled fireplaced cut-back on the right, with large openings right-front (to entry hall) and behind me into another smaller li... | |
| help on isolation/absorption/coupling My experience in this area is limited, but clear: the use of a Neuance isolation platform under my CDP resulted in considerably better coherence, and integration of top octave info, WITHOUT the lower-freq rhythmic compromise of air bladders or sor... | |
| Nordost Red Dawn revII vs SPM Red Dawn uses extruded silver over clean copper (and more of it) than the silver-plated Blue Heaven. Maybe the extrusion process results in more transparency in the upper octaves, which may lead to a more ruthlessly-revealing character that doesn'... | |
| Any Verity, or Avantgarde owners in NYC? Hi Dolphin. Although it may be a bit of a stretch for you, you're welcome to visit me in Boston for a weekend to get aquainted with my Encores, as fed by Aleph 2 monos and P.My very damped living room stages well, and the Parsifal Encores sound gl... | |
| Red Dawn 11 vs SPM Speaker Cable SPM is 12 gauge, RD revII is 13 AWG, BTW. But unless you're seeing a 2 ohm load in the lower octaves I wouldn't expect a driveability change at only 3 meters. I use RedDawn II quite successfully, and do NOT hear a difference if it's doubled up (11... | |
| Which DAC? Bel Canto? Assemblage? EVS? I was told in January that my EVS DAC2 would ship in February. It's March 17...no word. I have read that there has been disappointment and subsequent redesign. So I'm not sure what's up any more. | |
| long term disappointments? As much as I liked the B&W Nautilus 803N in dark cherry, I simply couldn't listen to them in the nearfield for more than a few minutes before wanting to get up and walk away.What a dsappointment! Tough to return, too, as the elliptical shape h... | |
| Tribute to Sarah Vaughn Hmm...I just bought a recently produced Verve compilation of Sarah V's hits called "Dreamsville". It's one of Verve's QUIET NOW series. Great tunes, but almost all are unlistenable and poorly mastered! (I posted the CD on ebay today, if you want i... | |
| Survey-What is your most used source? CDs 50%; FM 50% (Boston has GREAT radio...several high power stations with lots of jazz/classical, minimal or no compression or EQ.) | |
| Cd or DVD trans for Bel Canto Dac 1 Wow...small world: I too compared the Bel Canto DAC1 driven by the Pioneer 333 DVD w/ 2m toslink vs my Rotel CDP.The former sounded too soft and "whitish" up top. The latter was better, but NOT noticeably so to justify purchase of the DAC. My Rote... | |
| Pass Aleph-3 questions I have to disagree re the drive potential of the Aleph 2 vs the 3. The 2 monos EASILY pump 200w into 4 ohms (a typical impedence seen in many speakers in the upper bass), and will play MUCH louder than the Aleph 3 in the lower octaves.I also recom... |