swanny76109
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| Forte 3 upgrade/replacement caps and IEC Cord I have had a forte 5 since it was new. It has a replaceable IEC cord. I think later model 3 had them and the earlier had a captive cord. I had mine recapped by Jon Soderberg of vintage amp repair in California. He did a great job and upgrades the ... | |
| Does ProGold have a shelf life? why not check with the manufacturer, CAIG, right? This is a chemical/formulation/shelf life issue and they should know. Let us know what they say! | |
| ARC CD2 or Bel Canto DAC2 with transport can't go wrong with Bel Canto anything! I have the DAC3 and it is phenomenal. Good luck! | |
| A question of bass... Several actually. I have a pair of Dyn Aud 82 in the garage waiting for new amplification. Big bad and beautiful. Picked em up locally on Craigslist for a good deal, in great shape and all pkging. Let's put it this way, I have a pair of Bel Canto Ref 1000 mkii on t... | |
| Emmylou Harris - All I Intended to be - Love this Emmylou is hot. Nuff said. | |
| Beatles Remasters? This is a huge travesty. After hearing how good the Love remaster sounds and then listening to the 20+ year old original CD releases, there is no comparison. Back then I thought they sounded great, and they did, compared to most other CD releases ... | |
| Is it the transport or DAC that enables HDCD/Red? The grateful dead continue to release HDCD recordings and they generally sound reaaly good. Still anachronistic after all these years. I believe they were early supporters of the pacific microsonics technology that they used in the mastering proce... | |
| Is it the transport or DAC that enables HDCD/Red? If the transport decodes HDCD and the DAC does not and you feed the digital signal to the DAC, you won't get HDCD decoding. If the transport does not and the DAC does and you feed the digital signal to the DAC it will decode HDCD. In my instance m... | |
| DAC vs. New CDP No contest on this subject to me. IMHO the dac is everything in the final sound and transport really doesn't matter. I just got a bel canto dac3 today and it is phenomenal. I ran various cd players into it and you cannot tell any difference no mat... | |
| jeff rowland 501 & 201 vs. bel canto ref1000 I am thinking about the mk11s myself right now. Judging by specs the input impedance has been made much easier to drive. It was 10K/20K ohms now it's 100K/200K ohms unbal/bal.The boards are totally changed with much higher capacitance and rfi shie... | |
| Wiring- digital vs analog - beginner help A good source for reasonably priced cables is BetterCables. I just ordered their silver coax cable and will try it out later today with my new Bel Canto DAC3 that is supposed to arrive today! I think this cable cost about 40 bucks with free shippi... | |
| Wiring- digital vs analog - beginner help To clarify my previous post, I just realized that with the age of your equipment you may only have toslink outputs on your CD player, so that may be your only choice. If you have an option, use the coax. | |
| Wiring- digital vs analog - beginner help One more hint, when connecting your sources to your receiver, Use the coax digital connection and not the optical toslink for best sound. These will have an RCA termination like your analog cables but you can't use those...use a digital cable (75 ... | |
| Adcom GTP or GFP Agree with Knownothing above. No comparison. I own the GFP750--there are many threads on this classic here. Check them out. But, I love it to death. The passive mode is where it is at--I am not crazy about the active mode which is a bit forward so... | |
| amp for ONKYO receiver I have three monoblock Sherbourn 1/300 amps. They'll do 200/8 ohm and 300/4 ohm. I have the 5 channel version and picked these up to upgrade down the road but don't need them anymore because I am just going to stick with 5.1 channel system. If you... |