tom_nice
Responses from tom_nice
| Dedicated line Hi, My own experience: I first installed a 12 gauge dedicated ground, going to an 8' copper-plated brass rod or post driven all the way into the ground, complementing a dedicated line from the main breaker panel. (Of course its ground own was remo... | |
| TO be SET or to be OTL that is the ques. From the Atma-Sphere Web site, you can find the Atma-Sphere Owners' Group site (ASOG), and some reviews there compare OTL with SET, tending to favor OTL, as you'd expect, but still some useful information, maybe fairly objective. | |
| Good Site for buying Power Cables www.interlinkhouse.com has only two Stealth models, but they come with a 30-day money-back guarantee, and they are vastly superior in my system to the Cardas and Classe power cords I've used in the past. I'd consider giving them a try. | |
| building a room from the ground up... Two books by F. Alton Everest should be required reading: (1) The Master Handbook of Acoustics, and (2) Sound Studio Construction on a Budget. In (1), Everest analyzes main room nodes for a room very close to yours in dimensions, and you can see h... | |
| Who has built their own speaker systems I built some in a crude way decades ago, but more recently wanted to modify an enclosure to hold subwoofers. Dunlavy recommended joining the DIY Loudspeakers list, and I did, and got a discount on the subs I bought and a lot of good advice. You'll... | |
| Cables for SF Power 3 & B&W Matrix 801 I've used both Stealth Premier and Stealth Ultimate Ribbon, and have a Sonic Frontiers power amp, and they've been LOTS better than MIY CVT Terminator or Audio Magis Spellcaster. Given the 30-day money-back guarantee, I'd give them a try. The Ulti... | |
| Speakercable for B&W Nautilius I was going to urge you to try Stealth, then saw that Mbolek already has. I've had MIT CVT Terminators and Audio Magic Spellcasters, and my Stealth Ultimate Ribbon is in another league altogether. I also used Stealth Premier for a while, and it mi... | |
| Tranport and wire for Bel Canto DAC1 Toslink should not be in your audio picture. Neither, in my opinion (after using Wadia and Altis Altimate models) should ST-optical. Coax should be on BNC connectors but industry standard has gone to RCA. Some makers try to have a true 75 ohm cabl... | |
| Speaker cables for hybrid amp? I'd consult stnemo@starpower.net on this one. I've had a lot of advice from him, and it's all been good. He's a cable designer, and would let you try cables on a 30-day money-back (except for shipping) guarantee. I'd also avoid MIT like the plague... | |
| Best Copper Dig. Cable For < $300 I don't know where to find a copper digital cable, but why do you want copper especially? I'm using Stealth Varidig digital cables, both RCA- and XLR terminated (S/PDIF, AES/EBU), and both beat anything else I've used, including Altis Altimate opt... | |
| Need help with room!!!! Run, don't walk, to your nearest Online bookstore, to buy F. Alton Everest, "Sound Studio Construction on a Budget". And look for his "Master Handbook of Acoustics" in libraries too. (10 years earlier than "Sound Studio", not nearly as good on cur... | |
| Cables, Interconnects and More Cables??? I used MIT CVT Terminators ten years ago, can't comment on new ones. But my present Stealth cables (cross-wrapped copper and cross-wrapped ribbon interconnects, Premier and Ultimate Ribbon speaker) are A+ compared to C- for MIT: going back to MIT ... | |
| Acoustic Treatments I'd read F. Alton Everest, "Sound Studio Construction on a Budget" before I did anything. Among RPG products, Skyline diffusors are relatively affordable and very effective on back wall (behind listener) or front wall. (Side walls I haven't tried.... | |
| Audio Research Pre-amps: used prices? I sold an SP-15 with mods (but these seldom if ever help the used price) for $1900 a couple of years ago, so your SP-14 should go for less and the SP-9 for still less. Not much help, I hope you get more from others. | |
| Interconnect for a Rotel 971 I used to make my own interconnects using Kimber AGSS, which the Silverstreak has ONE strand of. (Mine had two.) Then I tried Stealth cables--and I have a ton of Kimber AGSS on my hands that isn't good for any audio purpose (though some "name bran... |