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| A 'First' System for my Son My sons each have a NAD 320BEE amplifier and a pair of Paradigm Titans. The Titans are wall-mounted (with Smarter Speaker Supports) so to tame the boom from the rear port, the port is stuffed with a sock.Both of them stopped using their CD players... | |
| Clearer sound after reconnecting cables? The recommended way of cleaning them? There are more than one, which is typical of course.The simple way is just to unplug them and then plug them back in. That will wipe some stuff off, probably enough to make a good contact again. Do it once a y... | |
| Clearer sound after reconnecting cables? Well, sure.Tiny amounts of crud and corrosion on the connector surfaces change the resistance and capacitance characteristics of the connection. I'm told that in extreme cases this stuff can even act as a diode.For years, experienced listeners hav... | |
| Would you pay to listen? Yes, I would pay and have done so in the past. There's a firm in my area that does consulting for designers and manufacturers of audio gear. I'm not one of those, just a listener, but I asked and they had some free time. Took some discs and found ... | |
| Benz Ace vs Ortofon Rondo I would lean more towards a Denon DL-103R than to either of these. Don't know your tonearm though. | |
| Suggestion for Brahms Kathleen Ferrier's performance of the Alto Rhapsody... I had forgotten I was looking for that one. Thanks Al.I'm a Kathleen Ferrier fan, not a big Brahms fan, but I would recommend this music and performance:Sonatas Op. 120, ScherzoThese are the v... | |
| Which attributes do you value most? I'm real glad someone else puts "harmonic content" at the top, and it's Al no less.There's a post somewhere on this site which says that the mind can "fill in" when some things are missing -- dynamics and detail for two -- but cannot do it for ton... | |
| Vandersteen 3A sigs, whats wrong here. Second Pmotz' generous reply. Even a seasoned user can get phase reversed accidentally :o( and much more important, positioning and room characteristics have a huge effect on bass.One approach is to use monophonic source material with a lot of bas... | |
| USB cable..what do you have. I have and enjoy a cryo silver cable made by Audiogoner Acreyes. It is the first premium USB cable I have tried and I think I got lucky. I listen for timing and tonal richness mostly, and it delivered both. Not to mention the price. Acreyes sells ... | |
| Well Tempered Tonearm Problem Grimace, I dunno if the OP plays golf, but his WT Classic is an older design and it don't have no ball. ;o)Pics of the Classic are around the Internet... | |
| Throwing your gear under the bus I'm sort of sad I sold my Acoustic Energy Aegis Ones. They're not an expensive speaker, a little hard to find is all. Don't do rock dynamics, just laid back... and easy to listen to. Have not found any speaker for the price as easy to listen to. T... | |
| Simple & Effective Conversion Software Neal, iTunes can indeed take in hi-res formats. I have both 24/88 and 24/96 in mine.It will not play them back at those higher resolutions except from the computer, and then only if you have a sound card or external box that can handle them. I hav... | |
| Help a new guy get started Too bad about that other thread. Audio folks do grump some.Allen, for my money the absolute winner combination in the suggestions so far would be that little Audio Space tube amp and a used pair of Reynaud Twins--if you can get to them Twins befor... | |
| Simple & Effective Conversion Software Hi Neal, sorry if the jargon was off-putting.Resampling the files means changing their resolution, for example making a 16/44 file out of a 24/96 file (which you would have to do to a hi-res music file if you wanted to listen to it on an iPod, for... | |
| Help a new guy get started Hey Jeff! Thanks for the kind word (which could apply even better to you).A_cross, note re Jeff's and my posts that the Linn Classik includes a CD player and the Audio Space Mini Galaxy includes a DAC. |