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Experience with Raul's Essential 3150
Gregadd, what does Walker have to do with this? Piedpiper merely asked if anyone had compared the two. Why should this be on another thread. Hopefully this thread will not become like the one on Supratek or H-Cat. I dearly wish people would post p... 
Experience with Raul's Essential 3150
Gregadd, why the overreaction to Piedpiper's simple comparison question? 
Esoteric Mods
Dbphd, yes I thought you were talking about AMG. I too think they are owned by MB. RUF is definitely not owned by Porsche. I have a Cayman, and what they do with it is scary and expensive.I think most audio moders are more like local mechanics who... 
Vandersteens on wood floors... couple or isolate
I think the resonant frequency of the wood would be much higher given the lower mass of the wood. 
Esoteric Mods
Dbphd, I don't think your analogies work well. Specialists have additional training in medicine. It is cheaper for MB to have another company mod. its cars for the performance range. I doubt seriously that moders of audio gear know anything more t... 
Best CD player money can buy ? MBL, Nagra, Naim?
Sacds are an fly in most top-end players. They don't play them. I am going to have to have a separate sacd player. The new hard-drive systems such as the Memory Player will have no sacd capability, or at least all that I know of, lack the ability ... 
Esoteric Mods
Dbphd, I suppose the only real answer to your question is that the moder has cheaper labor and may be more able to ignore the parts cost as he or she is not working through a dealer network. Price point concerns are the only real difference. 
Vandersteens on wood floors... couple or isolate
I cannot tell you how frustrating my experiences have been with regards to your question. I have tried both with a multitude of speakers and can honestly say I don't know the answer. Coupling the speaker to the wooden floors just make the floor pa... 
Best CD player money can buy ? MBL, Nagra, Naim?
711smilin, lots of luck. I use to say this, but now know that this is lifetime affliction. 
I need help on directionality of speaker cables
As I said, you are talking about electrical engineering not physics. They are simple rules that allow circuit and wire designs, but they do not capture all that holds in physics. 
I need help on directionality of speaker cables
Carl109, "...studied, researched and set in stone," maybe in EE to give the engineering capability to design circuits, but in reality there are many more factors than totally explain why wire has directional attributes. If most people hear a diffe... 
Accustic Arts
Pubul57, Yes the IsoCleans probably are overbuilt. Yes, I use the fuses in my AA dac and transport. I have compared the IsoClean and the HiFi fuses and found the IsoCleans are superior even trying the HiFis both directions to find their directiona... 
Accustic Arts
Pubul57, IsoClean's main claim is their isolation transformers and filter boxes. I have a picture of mine which are for sale, if you want to see what they look like or check out aaudioimports.com.Hotbird, and I thought I was a tweaker. I have hear... 
Accustic Arts
Oh God, Dev and I agree about something; sorry, only about the IsoClean, of course. 
Accustic Arts
What you talk, guy? Who dat Dev? : )