tom_nice
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| Ideas on building a listening room!! The first two comments give good advice, but even better, I think, is this: get F. Alton Everest's Sound Studio Construction on a Budget and his Master Handbook of Acoustics. The latter sounds better but the former is much newer, and better on roo... | |
| Sound without the Preamp ? All six previous comments square with my experience, and I found Redkiwi's especially useful. I'm not lucky enough yet to have a CD source with volume control, but hope to get a Wadia 830, 850 or 860 to test against my homemade passive preamp. For... | |
| CD Player I've seen the Sonic Frontiers SFCD-1 selling for just under your $1500 minimum, and it was Stereophile Class A in its time. I have one and find it very musical, and have had Sonic Frontiers separates and a Parasound 2000 Ultra too. The SFCD-1 is t... | |
| Best Interconnects and/or Speaker Cable The Audio Notes have the respect of the designer of Stealth cables. I have 10 Stealth cables in my Stereophile Class A system, including power cords and digital, and I've have "name brands" before (though not Audio Note). I suggest you try them on... | |
| SONIC QUALITIES OF A GOOD POWER CORD My system is all Stereophile Class A, which lets me hear differences. When I replaced a good power cord with a Stealth HAC to my Aleph 3 power amp, for 10 seconds I didn't like the change: there was less liquidity to a bowed bass in a tango CD. Bu... | |
| Favorite AES/EBU digital cable Orchid is unknown to me. But if you're willing to trust your ears, I suggest trying Stealth Varidig, the only digital cable on the market to achieve true 110 ohms thru a unique geometry. See www.interlinkhouse.com for details, and note the 30-day ... | |
| interconnect for CAL delta/alpha pair I had Altis Altimate optical, and when my system got better I realized that AES/EBU or S/PDIF were both better. I had a good AES/EBU with van den Hul silver 110 ohm wire, but when I changed to Stealth I got much better sound, and it comes with a m... | |
| Use of RPG's SKYLINE diffuser I have four of them, behind the listening position, and two homemade ones on the front wall between the speakers. Both help the sound a lot. Read F. Alton Everest, "Sound Studio Construction on a Budget" for examples of where he places them. Check... | |
| Best Interconnects for under $300 pair If you think AudioQuest cables are good, you have a wonderful surprise coming when you audition Stealth CWC or CWS (cross-wrapped copper, cross-wrapped copper). Only reservation: the rest of your system has to be up to it. You can try these with a... | |
| Best cable for my system I recommended that you look at www.interlinkhouse.com and try Stealth cables--email stnemo@starpower.net for specific recommendations. I have 10 of these cables (counting power cords) in my Stereophile Class A system, and I've had lots of other "n... | |
| need an integrated amp, only 700$ left.. I listened to a Musical Fidelity A2 recently and was struck by its sweetness and musicality. Only 25W, but if that's enough for your speakers, I'd place a WTB ad. Audio Advisor has a bigger Musical Fidelity integrated, the A3, I believe, and your ... | |
| Help! Need tube preamp to finish system. It doesn't sound to me if you're playing LP's, and if not, I'd use a PASSIVE preamp. I have an SFCD-1 like yours and a CAT SL-1 III, with factory-simplified signal path (switches taken out of circuit), and my homemade passive preamp built around S... | |
| Loose RCA connectors on CAT If you have a pair of pliers, you can grab the RCA plug gently from the pin end, set the pliers so they'll squeeze up to but no further than a LITTLE less, and then GENTLY squeeze the shell from at least two sides at right angles to each other. Do... | |
| Good cables for Rega Planet/Mira combo?? Look at www.interlinkhouse.com for Stealth cables, and buy as high up the line as you can. Don't assume that silver is necessarily better than copper: my present cross-wrapped copper cables beat Fineline Reference in my system. Don't assume that y... | |
| Interconnect upgrade I've had AudioQuest Diamonds, and strongly advise you to TRY Stealth interconnects, to be seen at www.interlinkhouse.com.It's no risk since they have a 30-day money-back guarantee. Calling them (Cross-wrapped Copper, in my case) an A, AudioQuest D... |