terry9
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| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum That is a truly awful story. Sympathy. Like MSL apparently, Koetsu likes to hide. Maybe a cultural thing - so what? The effects are the same as ill will. That was part of my decision to buy more locally this time, and Grado is mightily accessible... | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum Consider Grado. Comparing the Diamond Koetsu Rosewood Signature Platinum with the Grado Epoch, the Epoch is just better. More resolving, smoother, better tracker. | |
| Fun With Cable Risers If the floor has 120VAC lines underneath, then cable lifters will do a lot whenever current flows. Otherwise, I doubt it. | |
| Why is Audiogon insisting on a verified physical address in order to post? Guess so. | |
| Why is Audiogon insisting on a verified physical address in order to post? I was asked and when I tried to comply, I was blocked. Twice. Third time lucky? | |
| Leaving my amplifier on ok? @bishop148 Try an isolation transformer. Not only does it protect your equipment, but it improves the sound more than a high end power cable. @invalid It's heat that's the main enemy. If the caps don't get hot, they'll last and last. | |
| Will China become the poor man’s dealer for high end audio? Quad ESL's have been made in China for a long time, and the QC ranges from OK to good. | |
| Do Your Speakers have LEVEL CONTROLS or EQUALIZERS? (Vintage or Modern) ??? Sort of. In addition to the 2 stereo outputs, which run ESL's, I have two blended outputs with their own volume controls. These volume controls are downstream of the master volume control, and drive Magnepan DWM's. Basically it's an active cross... | |
| Some observations from a former skeptic - and a question Power cables make a difference alright. Just not as much difference as an isolation transformer, which also protects your equipment from spikes on the AC line. I did the experiment, which I've detailed several times on this forum. Only trouble wi... | |
| Leaving my amplifier on ok? I find that my Class A solid state mono blocks sound better after 96 hours. They run at body temperature. There are no electrolytic caps in the mono blocks to dry out. The power supply is in another room, where the electrolytic caps remain at room... | |
| Effects Of Power Cords On Electrostatic Speakers @piaudiol I've never had ESL's running less than a KV. Which ones were you thinking of? | |
| Effects Of Power Cords On Electrostatic Speakers @bugredmachine Good point! ESL's need low capacitance / high inductance cable, whereas magnetic speakers need the opposite. Otherwise is gone the HF ! Easy to get low capacitance / high inductance cables: just run two separate wires an inch apart... | |
| Effects Of Power Cords On Electrostatic Speakers I would crossover to cones at a lower frequency. Actually, I cross over at 50 Hz with an 18Db / octave electronic crossover, so the cones are silent for anything north of 100 Hz. The DWM’s don’t cost much and you can plant a swarm of them around ... | |
| Effects Of Power Cords On Electrostatic Speakers Very good points. By 'coherence' I mean that all frequencies have the same character, which is hard to get when treble comes from a beryllium tweeter and bass comes from a paper cone, but easy to get when they all come from the same membrane. To ... | |
| Effects Of Power Cords On Electrostatic Speakers @ghdprentice Ah, coherence. Yes, that's the big one. After smoothness, though, IMO. The Quad 2905's do both well. |