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| Power Cord & Power Conditioner Recommendations Equi=Core 1000 - $1,495.00 Intro special is $999.00 delivered Wally’s website states no returns, so best to check with him. I bought a Deep=Core this year. I could hear no change in my system’s sound with it installed. I sold it a month later for... | |
| single end round or flat No idea what would sound best, but Canare 4S11 is an excellent four conductor speaker cable that can be configured for bi-wire, or can be configured for double effective gauge single run. Used in professional recording studios and by audiophiles w... | |
| Apple TV Set Up As far as I can tell after having done some research, the AppleTV device must be selected as the Sound Output device each time the MacBook is restarted or shut down. You can do this from the loudspeaker icon found at the top of the Finder screen, ... | |
| Speaker cable advice Your cables were a "flavor of the month" with glowing testimonials here awhile back.With respect to “flavor of the month”, Clear Day Cables’ longevity in the spotlight was undoubtedly cut short by the untimely death of the company owner. Continued... | |
| Getting into Stevie Ray Vaughn SRV’s catalog is not deep due to his untimely death.These are must own recordings:Texas Flood (1983)Couldn’t Stand the Weather (1984)These are very good, but not must-own, in my opinion. Regardless, you will ultimately own them if you love the fir... | |
| Speaker cable advice Anything with silver will make your system sound brighter. (Conductivity at 106%) Absolute nonsense. A myth repeatedly propagated by inexperienced listeners.I am a prior owner (and lover) of Clear Day Double Shotgun bi-wire speaker cables, and a c... | |
| ZZ Top-Dusty Hill RIP Dusty Hill was as integral to ZZ Top's sound as John Entwistle was to The Who's. The Who know substituting for Entwistle is possible, but replacing him is not. Frank and Billy know the same about Dusty.RIP, Mr. Hill. | |
| Please clear up my confusion re: meaning of "balanced" ! the only hiccup would be a polarity issue because the standard for balanced connections is not the same from brand to brand you may have to reverse the polarity to maintain proper polarity because they may be wired with different balanced polariti... | |
| Please clear up my confusion re: meaning of "balanced" ! I’m simply wanting to know whether connecting the Schiit Jotunheim to my Aqua La Voce S2 with a pair of XLR IC’s could result in noise or signal loss. It won’t result in noise or signal loss.100% certain Schiit and/or Aqua HiFI will confirm this.W... | |
| Carver and Tube Life It was a very sad, but also sweet to see Almarg's contributions to this thread. When we lost him, it was an immeasurable loss.It was indeed.Fortunately, his contributions and lessons live on. | |
| Please clear up my confusion re: meaning of "balanced" ! I am confused about this term. I’ve been told it can refer to either a type of topology or simply a type of connection. Both.Many components have XLR (balanced) connectors.Many of those components have XLR connectors for convenience, but they are ... | |
| Tube Preamp - What to buy? Wanted to find @b-limo’s comment about the Blackhawk LE’s power on his 88dB 4 ohm Salk loudspeakers. He did like the Raven's sound quality. He found the fixed subwoofer outputs unhelpful in his system:05-31-2021 12:36pmHaven’t really followed the ... | |
| Robby Steinhardt Rest in Peace What a voice. What a fiddler. Thank you, Robbie for hundreds of hours of entrtainment. | |
| Dedicated Circuit Do a forum search for posts by jea48. His comments provide the most thorough and professional advice regarding dedicated circuits, including answers about what specific wire to use. | |
| Better Records White Hot Stampers: Now the Story Can Be Told! https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=searchss&state=4806:we44gd.1.1A search of the United States Patent and Trademark Office for "hot stamper" and "white hot stamper" returns no results. |