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| SS amp for Merlin VSMs? Tab, in my system, it's hard for me to discern an obvious difference between BAM a/c and battery mode. There is perhaps a bit more relaxed smoothness and realism in battery mode. But I have a good balanced power unit by Equi-tech and I think that ... | |
| 2010 Mac Mini Audio Tweaks In response to the original poster, getting Pure Music settings right helps a lot. The most important things, IME, are deselecting upsampling, using hog mode, toggling "less-is-more," and of course memory play with 8 GB of RAM.The mac mini tweaks ... | |
| 2010 Mac Mini Audio Tweaks Thesoundhouse:1) Do you use a SSD or HDD with the Oyen?2) Do you power it through the firewire bus or a/c adapter?3) Could you restate this: "One little tweak that yields nice results and cheap, is to listen to the mac mini with flipping the plug ... | |
| SS amp for Merlin VSMs? Just curious, Socrates, what cabling are you using with the Luxman? What size is your listening room? I've got an ARS-Filarmonio and Master VSM's. Wondering how you would compare the Luxman with the Fila, if you've heard the latter. I'm in love wi... | |
| Bass and Bass Traps Actually, the bass traps are 6" thick, not 4". I should have experimented with them more when I first got them. They're much better in their new position. Noticeable improvement now particularly in sound staging, whereas before the improvement was... | |
| Bass and Bass Traps Lapierre: I have panels at the primary reflection point. Not sure where the secondary reflection point is.Philjolet: I'm assuming you're talking about the bass traps. I have tubes in the rear corners. I don't think the panels could go behind me. H... | |
| Don't Feel Guilty Spending $$$ Yeah, but at the same time, don't spend foolishly. Nothing worse than hearing a system that kicks the butt of your system and costs 1/4 the price.My entire current system costs as much as my previous preamp alone and is the best sounding system I'... | |
| S/Pdif vs. Toslink I was using Toslink between my Mac Mini and Altmann DAC for a couple of years, but when I switched to spdif using a John Kenny modified HiFace along with a Black Cat cable I heard what I was missing. The Toslink certainly smooths things out, but a... | |
| Snow Leopard and audio quality I'm reviving this thread because sidssp asked an important question about 64 bit kernel operation that was never answered. When you boot up Snow Leopard, it normally boots into 32 bit kernel mode. You can confirm this by going into "About this Mac... | |
| Manufacurers I have known.... 2 Bobby Palkovic Agree with Lrsky, et. al. I'm just a regular guy. Certainly not one of his well-healed or well-known customers. But I've always been treated as if I were important to him as a customer and a person. He's always gone the extra mile for me. Now, whe... | |
| M2Tech HiFace - using it? Like it? This little magic box deserves much more attention. When I added the John Kenny MK II HiFace mod to my system and powered it with the the same 12 volt car battery that I use to power my Altmann Attraction DAC, the results were phenomenal. Much, mu... | |
| Merlin Master Bam Alert Tab, I used the lower output Jota monos before I got my Fila. The Jota's are beautiful and lush, but ultimately not as realistic and resolving. Midrange is rich and warm, but they lack the frequency extension, at least with the VSM's. I'm very hap... | |
| Cardas Cold Forging I had the process done on my Golden Reference for $300, and the improvement is obvious. Smoother, more information coming through, more organic. I'm very happy with the results.As far as the comments casting doubt on the value, this is my understa... | |
| Merlin Master Bam Alert I recently received an email out of the blue from a dealer who wanted to disagree with my review of the Master VSM's. It's obviously not that he's even heard them, as I believe there are only two or three pair in the world. But he took issue with ... | |
| Merlin Master Bam Alert I'm going to be sending Golden Reference speaker cables to Cardas next week for the cold-forge upgrade. Will report on my findings. |