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| HiFi dealers & audiophile wife problems Not my wife Alf. She's too busy bringing home stray dogs. By the way - you think this stuff is expensive - try suporting a horse lover who is into "dresage". I least I see the point to audio. BUT making a horse walk around the riding ring as if it... | |
| HiFi dealers & audiophile wife problems Thanks Red. The explantion doesn't work to well with speakers. And there are can't be that "black" boxes to interchange. When I come up with something for speakers - I'll let you know. Naturally interconnecting cables are never an issue (who sees ... | |
| HiFi dealers & audiophile wife problems The one that works real well for me is: "No dear that's not a new component - I just had the faceplate changed". Once - that was really the truth. I changed the faceplate of an ARC LS 5 from black to silver. The explanation worked so well I've bee... | |
| Best system for opera lover at $30,000 So?? What happened Fusilli?? What did you decide to buy or what approach have you decided to take with respect to your friend's system?? | |
| Best system for opera lover at $30,000 If your friend is going to spend 30 large - spend a little bit more and come to LA. Chris Hansen carries Thiel; Levinson and Wadia. Set up a demo and listen to the system yourself. While you're at it - Ambrosia carries Aerials, Dunlavys and Revel ... | |
| Comments BAT VK-D5 upgrade to VK-D5 SE I was mistaken. The thread is in the "General" section of the audioasylum site not the digital. The post date of the thread is April 4 so it is already in the archives. Things happen pretty fast over there. Don't miss the post by "Steve" who also ... | |
| Comments BAT VK-D5 upgrade to VK-D5 SE Go to www.audioasylum.com - one of the "inmates" wrote a comparative review of the BAT D5SE with the D5. I believe it is in the digital section of the menu. | |
| Dedicated room A Bunker??? I guess that takes care of any problem with windows. Actually my room is approximately 16 by 24 by 17. The 17 foot high cielings resulted in my windows being placed more than 6 feet off the floor, allowing rear speaker reflections to b... | |
| Dedicated room Somewhere in my travels I came across a site that had some ratios for an "ideal listening room" I cant recall where but I came across that site but I do recall that the room should definitely be rectangular as opposed to square or some other shape... | |
| who knows about BAT VK-50se's Carl - Ironic you should ask about a CAT/Krell match. I have not heard the "Ultimate" version of the CAT but I am acquainted with numerous previous versions of the CAT preamp going back 10-12 years or so. I've always loved the CAT preamps. Unlike ... | |
| who knows about BAT VK-50se's My system also uses the BAT VK-50SE line stage preamp as well as the BAT VK 60 monoblock power amps and BAT VK-5 phono stage. I purchased the 50SE brand new about 5 months ago. Out of the box the 50SE is hard and bright. After a couple of 24 hour ... | |
| Speakers: all-time favorite I will never forget being totally and completely blown away by a little speaker system called the Beveridge 2SW's. I had never experienced anything like that before from a music system. That was about 25 years ago and I have no doubt that this exp... | |
| Speaker Cable upgrade I used AQ Dragon in my system several years ago. I thought it was a real nice cable quite smooth and detailed. I also used AQ Sterling for a brief period and didn't feel I lost much dropping down to Sterling. Since then I've used Transparent Refer... | |
| Which way should I go? Either ditch the Theta or have it upgraded to the III or the V. I bought the Theta Pro Gen II in 1992. Even though it was one of the best DACs around at the time, DACs have become much warmer the years including the Theta. When I had the Theta upg... | |
| Passive vs. active preamps I have tended to follow "conventional wisdom" in my system set up in that I have used mono block amps with very short runs of speaker cable (4-5 feet) which requires the use of relatively long runs of interconecting cable (5-7 meters). The need to... |