tok20000
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| Any WARM, MUSICAL speakers out there? The VR-4 HSE speakers and the Vandy 5's are VERY different speakers. VERY DIFFERENT. I would not even put them in the same sentence as they are that different. And they each mate very differently with amplifiers. You can drive the Vandersteen 5's ... | |
| Any WARM, MUSICAL speakers out there? Speaker tone be it WARM, COLD, MUSICAL, DRY, SWEET, etc... I find has a lot more to do with the electronics driving the speaker than anything else. Especially the SOURCE. Sources have a HUGE impact on the tonal character of a system. Speakers ulti... | |
| Gilmore Audio planars revealed I spoke with Gilmore extensively at HE2003 (I think we talked a combined 6 hours or so). He told me about these speakers, and I sort of just noddeb my head politely, heh heh. Anyway, it is cool that these speakers have come to fruition. Gilmore ma... | |
| Omega Mikro powercord users help: The difference between the Red and the Blue cords is that the Red is designed for components that have transformers wound clockwise and the Blue is designed for components that have transformers wound counterclockwise.The trouble comes into play w... | |
| Maggie 3.6R performance dilemma.. Rooze, I am going to be blunt because you do not seem to be getting the point of what some of the Maggie experts here at Audiogon are trying to tell you. (I personally had the Maggies for over 3 years).1 - You need MORE powerful amps than any of w... | |
| Why do Japanese-pressed CDs sound better? Good question... One thing I know for certain, the mastering and pressing process can totally screw up a recording or make it sound AMAZING. The JVC XRCDs absolutely proved this to me.KF | |
| Cable Suggestions for my system? [if you want to change out dig IC] Digital Cables: Stealth Varidig is very good (It is MY reference), you may want to try also the Empirical Audio's top digital and Magnan's new digital cables. I have heard all three, and all are in the same ballp... | |
| Hybrid SACD Question 'Does a hybrid SACD disc compromise the fidelity of the Redbook section?' - Not that I have heard. If I remember correctly, the SACD information is on an entirely different layer of the disc than the 16 bit CD information. One of my best recording... | |
| Where are your maggies?? My Maggies are sold. I had them for almost 3 years.Anyway, I say listen to Tireguy because he is a Maggie expert.Personally I would advise the following:- get the most powerful amps you can afford to drive them- no integrated amp is going to do wh... | |
| Valhalla vs. HMS vs Jena Labs vs. Shunyata Phoeni Tireguy, I am not recommending any one speaker cable. I am recommending considering other areas of upgrade first(i.e. DAC) before spending upwards of $4k-5k on speaker cables. I am also recommending some less expensive speaker cables that have a g... | |
| Valhalla vs. HMS vs Jena Labs vs. Shunyata Phoeni You should stick the Xindak FS-01 and FS-02 in addition to the Supra Sword speaker cables to demo. Each of these is below the $1k price point for 2M (except the FS-02 which is a bit more than $1k). In terms of sheer value each of these cables are ... | |
| Mark Levinson 431 or Ayre V-5X? The V-5x is my favorite solid state amp under $6k. I use it in my reference system. Within it's power, matched with the right components, the V-5x is very difficult to beat sonically. And if I were looking for an amp to best it, I would not be goi... | |
| Is pure class A ss the equal to tubes? The primary difference between most solid state (including Class A) and tubes is the distortion each puts out. Solid state tends to put out mainly 3rd order harmonic distortion while tubes put out mostly 2nd order and some 4th order harmonic disto... | |
| Use of Digital Amps: Need serious help My friend Lordgorian,[Who I think made a big mistake by liquidating his system, but alas he is young and has a lot of life ahead of him.]I think the big question you have is: Does the Spectron or Tact regulate the volume of the signal in the Digit... | |
| Transport Science and Philosophy: VRDS et al Whoever thinks a DAC is much more important than a transport has not played around with too many DACs and transports. You can have the best DAC in the world but if you feed it with a so-so transport, the sound is going to fall way short of what th... |