tholt
Responses from tholt
| Amps direct to wall vs. power conditioner? it's all variable -- the power quality from your wall, the type of conditioner, the type of power cords, the type of amp. My nuforce's sounded better out of the conditioner. My current tube amp goes straight into the wall. try and see is the answer. | |
| The most hilarious ad ever on Audiogon? love it | |
| Ideas for separates around $1500??? whoops -- missed your cable comment. I believe Unsound is the winner here. | |
| Ideas for separates around $1500??? Man, nobody thought of that, should have been the first thing -- the cables. Prob because you thought it was the equipment, which led everyone down that path. I believe DNM are unshielded? If so, it explains it. At any rate, living under the elect... | |
| Anybody heard Stereoknight magnetic preamp? @ Maril555 if you're asking me I don't know. I do know when I emailed them/him he responded pretty quickly. | |
| Anybody heard Stereoknight magnetic preamp? Usually pricing isn't displayed when there is a dealer network, and pricing elsewhere may not be what's on the website. FWIW I've emailed the owner, or whomever he is, of stereoknight. pretty prompt with response back to me. He'll tell you the pri... | |
| Ideas for separates around $1500??? i agree -- don't see how changing equipment will help with that. check out hotrodaudiomods.com for some RF shielding | |
| Anybody heard Stereoknight magnetic preamp? Nice to hear first hand experience. Intrigued by that brand | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Way cool discussion going on here. Had a feeling this one would grow legs. If Almarg has summarized the OP's proposal succinctly and accurately -- 1)A significant degree of correlation (although certainly not a perfect correlation) can be expected... | |
| The Hub: ''Handcrafted Ralph Gleason'' ? Some paragraph breaks would have been nice. Streams of writing are great but even the writer has to stop for a breath of air (or massage that hand cramp). Good writing is an art form. And in this venue of get-in get-out, one has to be respectful a... | |
| Anybody heard Stereoknight magnetic preamp? The OP's question is about the Enigma active preamp, not the passive one | |
| Audio Research CD 8 I think he likes the ARC 8 over the Naim | |
| Where should I concentrate my upgrade dollars next Have you seriously worked optimal speaker placement? makes a huge difference in SQ between done wrong and right.I spent a week doing it (but I'm on the extreme side of the anal bell curve), from Master Set then tweaking based on my particular room... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? I don't think it's a silly term when applied in this way. I suppose you could think of alternate silly terms -- clean, unobtrusive, honest, flat. Neutrality in this application isn't referring to making things sound more distinct, but that things ... | |
| I need help with my Equipment addiction Macdaddy, ill venture a guess and say that your system probably sounds pretty f*in good right now. |