sugarbrie
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| What is purpose of a cd transport? There are two completely separate parts of digital playback; the reading of the source material and the conversion of that digital data into analog sound. To perfect them both is two separate tasks. Having them together in one box only makes perfe... | |
| electrical outlets Most Home Depost and Lowes do not sell the brands that most Audiophiles like. You will probably have to go to an electrical supply store to get the hospital grade Hubbell 8300 and Pass & Seymour outlets many prefer.Buy anyway, if you get whate... | |
| Audioparts Reference power cables Here at the link is an old Soundstage review of the Kimber Silver Streak by Todd Warnke. Keep reading and it goes off into a tangent in a couple places singing the praises of the MAS Black and the MAS PowerMaster AC power cord from that period.htt... | |
| Audioparts Reference power cables Sherod...I have three or four pairs of the MAS Black. I bought them way back when Stu lived in Pennsylvania. They are mostly on my HT system now. I agree they are pretty neutral and smooth for a small price. ("MAS" is "Music and Sound" that I ment... | |
| your opinion on subwoofers in two channel Can be a good thing if you like the sound of your system for 2 channel music and just wish it had more sub bass. You can enhance the lows without messing up the rest of the system. Also if you don't have the room for large floor standing speakers.... | |
| Audioparts Reference power cables A Wadia DAC from the late 80's / early 90's came with its own RCA digital cable made by Stu. The reason why Wadia included it at the time was they thought it made the DAC sounds its best. So why not give every customer one. They were called Music ... | |
| how much to $pend to claim i am an audiophile? There are all kinds of audiophiles. Forget the money.Many only use vintage tube gear from the 60s and 70s. Others only buy the latest megabuck system to keep up the the Audio Jones'. Some even get a kick out of buying used gear and seeing how good... | |
| Neutrik aftermarket cable for Rel Strata III I think The Cable Company can special order you one made by XLO. What is not expensive? The XLO cable will be +/- $200 | |
| Panamax 5500, where to buy There is a list of authorized online dealers here.[url]http://www.panamax.com/dealerloc.cfm?sec=net[/url]. | |
| Audioparts Reference power cables I don't have a Reference One, but I have owned and do own a number of Stu's cables and have found them to be a good value for the money. | |
| Good Grief. Another Tchaikovsky already. My favorite Strad story is Rostropovich's cello. It has a dent on the side from Napoleon Bonaparte kicking it.Probably the only time that damage has added value to a musical instrument. | |
| Good Grief. Another Tchaikovsky already. I agree with the Chung also.I heard Bell play the Brahms live in concert followed soon after by Hillary Hahn (Brahms also). It was no contest. Bell was an artist in his prime; Hahn sounded like a competent concert-master filling in (OK, nothing sp... | |
| Newbie wants tube recommendations You could get some used Conrad Johnson gear pretty cheap. There is lots of it around because they have been around a long time. | |
| How many audio systems do you have in your home? Three at home and one at work. Jeffloistarca in Montreal is the champ (see link). . [url}http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr_memb.pl?0&1&listsyst&zzJeffloistarca[/url]. | |
| "The B&W Sound" Prove to us first that it is the speakers, and not harsh sounding electronics and cables being perfectly reproduced by the speakers. |