tonyptony
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| SHAHINIAN Aurel, I own these speakers, although my version is about 14 years old. I've heard many good speakers over my years in the hobby - Vandersteens, Thiels, Apogees, Dunlavys, Kefs, Martin Logans, Wilsons, and on and on. The bottom line is that I stil... | |
| With Cary Tube System: AQ Cheetah or Nordost Frey? Billm, just ran across this thread. I'd be interested in a bit more info in the comparison of these lengths of Venustas and Frey. | |
| EAD DSP7000 owners Need your opinions. bumpin it up the line... | |
| Anybody tried 20th Anniversary Purist cables? Well, I called Purist Audio today and spoke with Jim Aud (when the receptionist transferred the call he picked up!). Interestingly, he is aware of a long running discussion about the Aqueous going on somewhere on the web; I'm assuming this is the ... | |
| Preamp Connections - Balanced vs. RCA "i was looking at the x-1 and was advised i would have to reduce the voltage of my dac if i went with it"Mike, I just got off the phone with Pass. The indicate the inputs of the X1 (RCA and XLR) are indeed buffered and should not require any chang... | |
| Preamp Connections - Balanced vs. RCA "i have heard of this with pass pre-amps...if the volume is too high and you cant adjust the "It's a Boelen modified DSP-7000 Mk.III. I have no desire to change it. You're comment confuses me relative to Nsgarch's. Do you have info that indicates ... | |
| Preamp Connections - Balanced vs. RCA Thanks Nsgarch. That makes a lot of sense. I suspect you're right about the inputs being "normalized" RCA Vs. XLR. The X1 does have a gain selection - either 4 or 14 dB. But in the case of 4 dB (which is where I keep it) the midpoint delivers enou... | |
| balanced/xlr vs. unbalanced/ single ended I have another thread in this forum about this sort of thing. But there are no answers yet so I'll hop on to this one! In general, does delivering a signal to a preamp over balanced connections wind up delivering twice the voltage to the gain stag... | |
| Which Threshold s are best? Lawyerman, I'm very interested in why you still prefer the older SA/4e amp. In what ways do you feel it's better than the newer Pass amp designs? | |
| THE LATEST---Gold plated fuses? About 20 years ago I had high purity solid copper rod the diameter of a standard fuse cut to the size of a fuse. Had them gold plated and replaced the output fuses in my amp with these. My system was about as high end as you could make it at the t... | |
| ar turntable resurrection advice Wow. Tons of good choices. I see a few mentioned that have been around almost as long as the table!I had always heard good things about the DL-103. I actually tried a Grado (Reference? Statement?) on my table and didn't really care for it. Wonderf... | |
| ar turntable resurrection advice Tim, if you don't mind I'd like to open this up a bit. I actually own the exact same table and arm. Have been using it for over 14 years with a high output VDH MC cartridge. It's a good table, but does have a couple of weaknesses. It's a little so... | |
| Anybody tried 20th Anniversary Purist cables? Thanks guys. You both have been a great help. Like all cable matching issues it sounds like there's no free lunch here. A careful selection of cables is needed even in the highest echelon of IC products. | |
| Anybody tried 20th Anniversary Purist cables? Cmo and Tvad, since you both have had a chance to hear the 20th Anniversary Aqueous and the Venustas, I'd like to get your thoughts on which has better high frequency extension. Not "pushed" mind you, but open, clear, still musical.If there's one ... | |
| Anybody tried 20th Anniversary Purist cables? "I just had a pair of the Purist Annivesary (Aqueous?) IC's in my sytem and didn't like them very well"Chris, I am very interested in this. Between which components did you use the Aqueous? Are your comments in direct comparison to the Venustas in... |