sugarbrie
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| Spade to banana adapters While you don't want to do it...the "bare wire hole" is actually for the banana plugs. Thank the European Union bureaucrats for that. | |
| Another speaker wire possibility at Home Depot??? Carol Cable actually manufactures in-wall and pro-audio speaker cable, plus Video/Cable/Satellite Coax cable (RG6, etc), microphone cables, and even power cables down to 6 Ga.Our friends at Parts Express carries a lot of it, including the 6 Ga. po... | |
| Interconnect and Speaker Cable Burn In Just use them.They will break in on their own. | |
| my take on blind tests Actually orchestras do blind testing. Not in the case of conductors, but most major orchestras do blind open auditions of musicians applying to fill a full time rank and file position. They play behind a partition. The judges cannot see who it is.... | |
| my take on blind tests Many times I have stuck something in my system with the preconceived notion that is would be better. It just had to be better. But it was not. I'd spend hours trying to convince myself that is was really better, but something else was off. In the ... | |
| my take on blind tests If I were to take a double blind test, the biggest problem would be that I am completely unfamiliar with the entire audio system being used in the test. The place I notice differences the quickest and easiest is at home; for the simple reason that... | |
| Do true audiophiles own Mcintosh gear MAC is nice gear; but is also in many ways a status symbol.Like many people who buy a BMW and only commute back and forth to work in it.Many want you to see their MAC gear, not necessarily hear it. Still nice stuff... | |
| are any of your friends audiophiles? Audiophiles have friends ???? :-) | |
| Best Band That Never Was The Rutles | |
| International Freight Service. Help pls. Where is the local Bax depot located? Take it to them if you or a friend have a truck. Or have them pick it up where you work if possible for you.In my experience they will ship for anyone. What they might mean by no "personal" is over-the-counter... | |
| Best budget CDP? If you want a new one, then consider the Cambridge Audio 740c Upsampling CD Player.List is $1099, but places like Spearit Sound have it for $999 with free shipping. So you are $1 below your budget...LOL! | |
| Please tell me. I am with you Drum75...I don't have a "reference system" to compare components with.I compare against live music, which I am exposed at least weekly, sometimes daily. It is amazing sometimes how my conclusions differ from the audiophile crowd in g... | |
| Recording Analog Backups to PC and CD If you really want to do a professional job, all you need is the opposite of a DAC (digital to analog converter). You need an analog to digital converter. These are not hard to find. There are many models/brands available. Just do a search.Even MS... | |
| Please tell me. If you go to live concerts...jazz club, symphony hall, theater stage, yada yada; the concert venue itself has a sound. The more famous venues tend to sound great.A neutral amp is fine if that is what you want; to me it is like being in a neutral c... | |
| A/V Cable needed What kind of cables come with the various brands of Video Game consoles.? This might be a source.?White/Red usually denotes left/right audio, and yellow is coax video. |