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Audiolabyrinth, I cannot imagine what you are talking about in saying that nobody talks about the presentation. Soundstage, realism, and a sense that you are at the recording event are all mentioned. I also don't understand why you want the sounds... 
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Nglazer, well spoken review! 
Goodbye CD's
Tboooe, I have a TuneBank RAID 5 with two drives external to the two in it with one not in my home. Nevertheless, every once in a while I have gotten new versions of discs or even ways why I might treat the cds and rip them again. 
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Well, Tom, now I know which Tom you are thanks to your mentioning the endpin. 
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Agear, he still does. I have never even seen any of the Star gear. Do you have it? 
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Theaudiotweak, all I really know is what I hear. I have not heard the Star Backstage but nothing I have heard surpasses the StillPoints, and I have tried many, many vibration solution, including the Halcyonics active systems, plus boxes full of br... 
Goodbye CD's
Kehut, you are a lucky man. 
Top Ten Speakers of All Time?
Joejr, Do you mean unmodified Dahlquist DQ 20's? While I lived on Long Island, I heard many modifications of these and was very impressed, but not with unmodified units. I moved away too fast to ever have a pair. At the time I had double Quad 57s. 
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Theaudiotweak, I can understand that the mechanical impedance at the point of spikes, but what it would be with StillPoints Ultra Fives seems ill-defined. The base is 3 inches in diameter and the top is somewhat smaller. But the top ceramic ball w... 
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Audiolabyrinth, I am not counting on balanced, but would love to have them. Given the extra size needed for the single-ended ones, I hate to think of the size of the XLRs. I also hate to see the price increase for them.I have had balanced cabling ... 
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Audiolabyrinth, me too. I had a long talk with Rick about the benefits of the StillPoints Ultra Fives that are really about converting vertical motion into heat, not really direct grounding. I really have no experience with the Star Back Stage tec... 
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Audiolabyrinth, I didn't mean to offend you. I don't believe I am talking about changing the electrical characteristics of the cable. I am talking about induced magnetic fields around cables carrying signals that can in turn affect the signal in a... 
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Audiolabyrinth, I remember long, long ago when two audio friends in NY showed me the impact one of the routing of wires in a line stage and later of the benefits of two or more transformers in an ac filter being at right angles to each other. I gu... 
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Theaudiotweak, what does "...not constrict this product's design path with the high impedance presented by isolation products," mean? I would think that StillPoints technology of converting vertical into horizontal motion would work better to keep... 
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Ddraudt, today I'm packing up the HF WGPC and taking it to Texas. Last night after listening again to it, I put back the Kemp Power Source on four StillPoints Ultra Fives. It had been on three. I know from much prior experience that four is far su...