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| I always do something stupid... Glad this thread came up. Just 2 days ago I had my cute little Audio Space AS-3i integrated tube amp up on new Herbie's Iso-Cups. Wow, best the amp has ever sounded, try Herbie's everyone. Only now I wanted more so I took the CDP off its FIM rolle... | |
| Made in Canada conundrum I live in Quebec, and I thought Benie's line was funny too ;o) | |
| Made in Canada conundrum Well Yanks and Canucks, now is the time for us all to sit around on the rug and say just what it is we don't like about each other. Get it all off our chests, spit it out and see what we feel like when it's all over.Springbok10, I'm really sorry f... | |
| tt isolation help I found the Audio Technica AT605 feet to be well-adapted to my Linn LP12. They are large enough to fit the corners of the plinth well, they compress enough but not too much, they handle both vertical and horizontal vibrations and they are easily h... | |
| More on Digital Cables? The Atlas Opus is a great cable. I use it and prefer it to the higher-priced Wireworld Gold Starlight, which is the only other one I have tried at or above the Opus' price point. ( I would mention the Zu Ash too but I don't know what it's going fo... | |
| What speakers would you travel with? I have a pair of Visonik Davids for trips. They are a ported design, very small ( the main driver is 100mm in diameter ) and very durable, being made of metal with a metal grille. I drive them with a Rawson chip amp, a box about the size of two st... | |
| The Great Speaker Quest If you don't mind buying an orphan, you might find a pair of Meadowlark Shearwaters at about your price limit. The Hot Rod version (like mine) is better but would go a few bucks over the top. | |
| More on Digital Cables? You don't mention which Atlas cable you have, but if it's the Compass, how about moving up to the Opus? | |
| tt isolation help Don't know about the Stillpoints, but Herbie's has a 90-day guarantee so you can try both the Iso-cups and the Tenderfeet and see what you think. I would have thought the Tenderfeet would work a bit better myself. | |
| what are your five essential songs Grateful Dead--Uncle John's BandAin't No Cure for Love--Jennifer Warnes (Leonard Cohen)C'est extra--Renée Claude (Léo Ferré)The Well--Jennifer WarnesCycles--Rickie Lee Jones | |
| 1.5m for 75ohm digital coax? There are quite a lot of very good digital cables that don't cost very much more in a 1.5m length than they do for a meter. Atlas Opus and Compass, VH Audio cryo Pulsar, Apogee Wyde Eye are examples. All these are at or near the top of their price... | |
| Front End Advice Sought I used to spin LPs while doing household chores all the time back in the 70s when vinyl was all we had, and I still do it now. An entry-level Rega or similar is not too hard to look after and heck, if I could learn to set it up so can anyone. All ... | |
| Indian Music? There are some names which are always good bets: Ali Akhbar Khan, Nikhil Banerjee, Ram Narayan, Zakir Hussein, Mahapurush Misra. The last two are tabla players, the first three play sarod, sitar and sarangi respectively. They are the best-known an... | |
| Very small very sensitive floor stander 1000? Moth Audio Cicada, now discontinued--if you can find them. I've wanted to try a pair of these ever since I read the review in Listener. ( Mr. Dudley reviewed them again for Stereophile in 2004. ) Here's another review ( which also mentions a coupl... | |
| Praise for DacMagic Audiowoman, the music gets cleaned up. This can be apparent in different ways but overall there's better resolution. This can lead to other perceptions, for example: image fills out, becomes less flat. Leading edges of notes are clearer so that in... |