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| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz On the ten amp limit. If your plugs to the unit get hot, be concerned. Otherwise, forget it. | |
| fuse damage Having taught the scientific method at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, I don't know how "good" science might be defined. Using invalid measures or inappropriate analyses might be part of this. Usually, peer review is used to weed out p... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Guys, I have a small fortune invested in my HFC cabling and ac connections. I regret none of these expenditures although cabling is now over 60% of the cost of my system. I have tried both the MC 0.5 and the digital adapters and both further impro... | |
| Servers: Are we there yet? Ripping may necessitate internet access for a bit check and artwork and info, but with a laptop, a harddrive, and a dac, you can use a music server without the internet. Convenience from your listening position, however, may lead you to wanting th... | |
| TUBE AMP LOVERS - What SS amp makes you smile??? Right now I have only one amp to recommend, namely the H-Cat X-10 MkIII that just far exceeds any amp that I have ever heard. For many years, I had only tube amps and preamps. I loved featherweight 1.56 watt amps on very high efficiency speakers, ... | |
| Building a system from scratch (other than speakers) I was about where you are now about 38 years ago. For about $5k I bought a pair of Infinity ServoStatics, two ARC amps, and their SP3 preamp. I already had the Linn LP12 turntable and a Decca London cartridge. I lived with this system for ten year... | |
| When I have seen people listing their systems lately About six years ago, I gained the ability to rip cds and HD tracks to a hard drive and to have these digital tracks passed onto dacs capable of playing them. For several years I retained the cd players I had, main OPPO models with mods.As long as ... | |
| Has anyone heard the new North American products preamp and amp? I have and you are in for a treat after about six weeks of settling in by the amp. I don't know if it is just the curing of the potting compound, the forming of capacitors, or even my getting accustomed to the sound, but at one point about three w... | |
| Neutral electronics are a farce... Dracule1, I too see no use for the concept of "neutral." I think realism is the goal I seek. One has to know what instruments sound like and hear the human presence around their playing or singing. But recently, I have heard realism at the fringes... | |
| Tidal vs. Spotify Neither! | |
| What were two standout rooms at CES? I did not even see the Select DAC at the CES. I did hear the Diamond DAC and it was exceptional. I briefly heard the Signature, but too briefly to tell much.These high prices seem to me the accommodation of manufacturers to the top 1% having all t... | |
| Stylus Warm-up Time I tend to listen to vinyl more in the Summer, when I find I need not worry about the cartridge warm up. I must say that I find cleaning the cartridge stylus and the record surface and removing static electricity also important. I find 45 rpm rerel... | |
| The one piece of gear you will never sell I think you might find that your ZeroStat will cease to emit ions. I have an old white one that is no longer effective. | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Like many who posted earlier, I have the original Synergistic Research fuses in most of my equipment, including some that I've sold. This was the results of comparisons some time ago with every fuse that I could lay my hands on as well as experime... | |
| Cables and reviewers A single pair of speaker wires or interconnects is easy to do, but full looms are a real pain, but big speakers are the worst to review, given that having two sets of speakers in the same room are a major problem, even if you short the terminals o... |