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| Stellavox ST2 DAC and use of worldclock generators I've compared the Stellavox to the Benchmark using GamuT amplification and Gradient speakers. I took my ST-2 over to a pal's house and swapped it into his system. Transport was Sonic Frontiers. The highs especially were much better with the Stella... | |
| Problem w Esoteric SA-10- send in or fix locally This may not help much... but I had a TEAC T1 repaired (new laser) by the local factory service shop. The problem (wouldn't read discs, at first just a few, then most, then all) recurred after three or four months.Had two other shops look at the u... | |
| KT88 or EL34 based tube amp for Titus ES I use an Audio Space AS-3i with EL34s to drive my Titus Es pair. You can also get a KT66 version.Various tweaks can make this combo sound very nice indeed. NOS driver tubes, Herbie's tube dampers and Iso-cup footers, a premium AC cord, an isolatio... | |
| Dedicated line help Sure, Soix, if you got the time to report back, I'd be happy to read your impressions. | |
| So, What is the Verdict on the Beatles Box Sets? These new releases are great-sounding. The stereo sounds artificial on the ones I've listened to so far, with instruments on one side and voices on the other. It's tempting to put my preamp in mono mode to listen to them.But the clarity of the ins... | |
| Red Rose Rosebud bass driver Edmondleung123, you could Google it, click on the parts-express.com link that comes up and then enter "Aurum Cantus" in the Search field on the Parts Express Home page. If you do that you won't get an error.I did it and copy-pasted the final URL i... | |
| Good Monitors for no more than 150? Build a North Creek Echo kit!http://www.northcreekmusic.com/Echo/EchoInfo.htm | |
| Speaker audition: a novice’s journey What Onhwy61 said.Also... I liked this review, it was fresh and easy to read. I still had a question when I reached the end, though.The impressions are nicely detailed, and they refer to specific aspects of the reproduced performance, specific ins... | |
| Interconnects for NAD Electronics I highly recommend Joe Mazzaglia's Auricle interconnects. They are inexpensive and very good indeed. | |
| Speaker Matching with Linn Gear I haven't had a lot of acquaintance with Linn gear, just a Majik-I integrated and a Classik. I had to be careful with choosing speakers for these, for two reasons. First, the output connectors are unique and you have to get speaker cable connector... | |
| Bookshelf Speaker question Hifinewb, you say you are looking for "bookshelf" speakers. Does that mean you actually want to place them on a bookshelf? If so, there are speakers made for that application, even some very good ones, but there are not a lot of them. The best I k... | |
| Red Rose Rosebud bass driver Maybe try an Aurum Cantus supplier? | |
| Which matters more, DAC or transport? You'll find a few words on the DAC vs transport question in the archives if you look about. I'm not much help I'm afraid. IMHE they both matter, and I've chosen the source-first approach most often. If you go for Esoteric--not a bad idea--go for t... | |
| Wool Rugs I've just hung a Tibetan wool rug on my smaller (very smaller) listening room wall using an IKEA rod and rings with alligator clips so it's a couple of inches off the wall, ho ho... and my word, the glare took its hat and the door. Wool rugs sound... | |
| Rawson Resale...... Sorry Tholt, I wasn't clear. The perennial question to which I referred, above, is not about Rawson gear in particular, it is about almost every make of gear that appears for sale in a cluster ( or IME not in a cluster, even ). The question being,... |