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| Speaker cable help Greg, I would recommend you might put on your audition list a pair of Acoustic Zen Satori speaker wires that you could get for around $400.00 used, which is in your budget range. Their sound is not "fat/euphonic" but very smooth and musical and ye... | |
| Interconnects for Nordost Valkyrja speaker cables Omegaman, I did not mix the Acoustic Zen IC's with the Nordost Vallhalla speaker wires when I was auditioning the Nordost products. My hunch would be that the AZ IC's would give the transparency and details that the Nordost speaker wires have to o... | |
| Interconnects for Nordost Valkyrja speaker cables Omegaman, I would suggest you might want to put on your audition list the Acoustic Zen Absolute reference IC's, that retail for $2400.00 a pair. I compared them to Nordost Valhallas and liked them much better in my system. $2400.00 is not exactly ... | |
| Dartzeel amp lives up to hype Snook2, I'm very glad your very pleased with your new Dartzeel amp. You stated that it's the most "transparent" amp you have ever heard. Would you be nice enough to share what other amps you are comparing it to, along with of the rest of the gear ... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective I forgot to put this on my last post because of brain freeze, but I thought that Exlibris, might find it interesting that at the last Rocky Mountain Audio Show many people thought one of the best sounding systems was the one put together by Brian ... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Exlibris, anything new to report regarding the sonics of the Accustic Arts gear at the present time. I'm assuming you have not yet gotten the Stealth Sextet balanced cable , but am curious if the pieces are changing the longer you break them in an... | |
| Again, recommended CDPs for $2K-$3.5K Rhanson739, the Electrocompaniet EMC 1 UP CDP is one of the best sounding redbook players on the market. It is rarely talked about anymore, but still is highly competitive with reference quality CDPS. Built like a tank, the transport in the player... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Exlibris, I find your hunch regarding the possibility that you might end up with a tubed DAC very intriguing. When I tried a couple in my system ( very high level Audio Note and Zanden) that they had a very nice midrange, a type #2 flavor, but lac... | |
| What should be on my short list... Bbro, I would also suggest putting the following on your audition list: 1) Ensemble- It's a terrific sounding player, retails for $9000.00, but can be bought used/demo for around $4600.00 and the build quality is first rate Swiss. 2) Accustic Arts... | |
| MBL 1511/1521 Combo Kusina, I posted this morning, on the thread titled, Reference DACS: An overall perspective, that a friend of mine had just heard the MBL DAC, not the transport, and thought it was terrific. If you go to the above mentioned thread, you can get som... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Just had a discussion with a fellow audiophile regarding his experience with the MBL1611E DAC, don't know what transport he was using, and he thought it was outstanding and one of the best DACS he has heard. I have never had the pleasure of listen... | |
| Parasound JC-1 vs. Pass 250.5 Denf, I now have lived with the Pass LabsX-350.5 for a year in my system, and am still as thrilled with its sonics as I was when I first auditioned it in my system. It replaced a pretty damn good amp in its own right, EdgeNL-10, because it offered... | |
| Top Five for 2005 The following would be my list for the top five releases for 2005: 1) Kenny Barron's two albums recorded live at Bradley's 2) Monk and Coltrane at Carnegie Hall 3) The Complete Norman Granz Jam Sessions box set 4) Scott Hamilton with the Bill Char... | |
| Lived up to or beyond the hype for 2005. My list contains the following gear that I was lucky enough to end up purchasing, after home auditions, that signficantly raised the quality of the sonics of my system: 1) Pass LabsX-350.5 2) Acoustic Arts DAC1-MK3 3) Stealth Varidig Sextet digita... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Exlibis, because of the experience so far in your audition of the Acoustic Arts gear, it motivated me to run the following experiment this afternoon. I have a Acoustic Zen E=Mc2 with BNC connections that I used to use about three years ago with a ... |