twoleftears
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| Upgrading a CD/SACD player with integral DAC @skyscraper See the very end of this thread:https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/new-or-old-cd-player/post?highlight=consonance%2Bhegel&postid=1542969#1542969 The Hegel is based on a much older Consonance design, manufactured in the same Ch... | |
| Difference in sound between copper and silver digital cables? Reminder: this thread is about *digital* cables.Why aren't we discussing the relative merits of glass vs. polymer in optical cables?https://pslc.ws/macrog/fiberopt/of.htm | |
| Desktop speaker upgrade from KEF LS50s ( Harbeths are designed to be used with the front grilles left on. | |
| Revisiting some music from the past ... @jim204 If you can find it streaming somewhere, please give a listen to Dobrinka Tabakova, "String Paths", on ECM. You might be pleasantly surprised. | |
| Best Sounding Bruckner Recordings There's an extensive review of the Blu-ray issue in the most recent number of Absolute Sound, which doesn't seem to be available on-line. It's very positive. | |
| Moving cables around killed dynamics for days anyone else experience this? Yup. You just experienced settling.The unresolved question is what you would have heard from the new arrangement if you'd left it that way for 4-5 days. | |
| Best Tchaikovsky’s 6th Symphony Recording You haven't lived if you haven't heard the Currentzis, but I wouldn't want to have it as my sole or "canonical" representation of the symphony. | |
| DIY speaker isolation base for a wood floor 1. Do Isoacoustics Gaias + cups isolate?2. I didn't say that. I said that via youtube and computer speakers that that was what the difference sounded like to me. I wasn't in the room, nor, I suppose, were you. | |
| Best Sounding Bruckner Recordings https://www.udiscovermusic.com/classical-news/karajans-legendary-bruckner-symphonies-out-now/ These, as well as the ($$$) Japanese SACD releases are supposed to have supremo sound. | |
| Salk bookshelf or Dynaudio bookshelf? Or something else? Budget ceiling?I'd take a long hard look at the Carbon 7's. http://fritzspeakers.com/ | |
| DIY speaker isolation base for a wood floor @blueranger No, you got it wrong. It's the speaker cables that you're supposed to suspend from the ceiling with monofilament. | |
| DIY speaker isolation base for a wood floor Utterly predictable responses from gk.Moving on. The RMAF 2018 Isoacoustics demo is very impressive, and the difference is clearly audible even with youtube "fidelity" and computer speakers. Still, I am just a tiny bit suspicious. The nature of th... | |
| THD In Light Bulbs https://e2e.ti.com/blogs_/b/powerhouse/archive/2013/05/28/how-to-reduce-total-harmonic-distortion-to-below-10 | |
| Difference in sound between copper and silver digital cables? Given the different way in which analog signals and digital signals are transmitted down connections (optical speaker cables, anyone?), it seems 100% commonsensical that design is going to play a large part in any perceived difference, and that ca... | |
| DIY speaker isolation base for a wood floor @blueranger https://ethanwiner.com/speaker_isolation.htm |