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| Audience Au-24 vs. Empirical Design Cable Review Dodgealum--Did you use shielded or unshielded intereconnects? Both seem to be available, with the sonic preference going to the unshielded. | |
| Audience Au-24 vs. Empirical Design Cable Review http://www.empiricaldesign.net/ | |
| Primare CD31 with 1704 chip Have you considered the Bryston BCD-1? IMHO it's the leader in the price range you specified.I listened to the CD31 and thought it very good. Very listenable over the long term. Similar feelings about the Naim CD5x. But--admittedly in another syst... | |
| Newbie amp help......why? How did the issue of whether you might need an amp come up? Did someone else tell you this? Or did you come up with it on your own?PSB Stratus Golds are decent speakers, and some other A-goner with more experience of them can probably tell you how... | |
| Newbie amp help......why? Does your receiver have "Pre-amp out" jacks on the back? If so, you could continue using the tuner and pre-amp sections of the receiver, and hook up a better quality power amp to drive the speakers (bypassing the amplifier section in the receiver)... | |
| Reality Cables made of? Yes, AudioCircle has a number of threads on DIY THHN speaker cables.But what about interconnects? Based on the rather blurry photos on the website, that's what it looks like the Reality ICs might be made of. | |
| High quality "locking" IEC connectors? Have you seen these?http://www.volex.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=207&Itemid=58&lang=enOr these?http://www.iec-lock.com/ | |
| Power Cord Question I think what you're looking at is a C7 socket/connector. (The 3-prong is called an IEC.) A few cable companies make cords terminated with a C7--PS Audio is one example (though I'm not necessarily endorsing that product). Visit a site like Audio Ad... | |
| Uruboros? Uruboros, uroboros, ouroboros, ourorboros, oroborus, uroborus, take your pick. | |
| Cambridge 840c vs. Bryston BCD-1 vs. Ayre CX-7e Sorry, I'm a bit confused. How did the Droplet get into this string? I was comparing the *Bryston* to the Cambridge.... | |
| Cheap tweak from Virtual Dynamics: Whatever else you do, don't buy the brass screws from Lowe's or Home Depot. During some repair work to back door, while gently easing in--i.e. *not* high torque--a longish brass screw bought from Lowe's it just sheared off. | |
| Speakers: $3,000-$4,000 on Audiogon In my own experience, I wouldn't have put Dynaudio, JMLabs, Revel or some of the Thiels (e.g. 3.6) as leaning in the direction you indicate in the original post.So here's another vote for Acoustic Zen, Vienna Acoustics, Sonus Faber, Harbeth and Pr... | |
| Cambridge 840c vs. Bryston BCD-1 vs. Ayre CX-7e I eventually bought a Bryston, after auditioning cdps from Arcam, Cambridge, Naim, Primare, and Rega. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to hear the Ayre.The Arcam FMJ 37 was probably the most analytical of the bunch. It impressed on first auditioning, ... | |
| really inexpensive power cords Philjolet:My second system has a decent cdp, amp, speakers, ICs and speaker cables. But stock, come-with-the-unit, PCs. So I was thinking of doing something about them, without spending an arm and a leg.Along comes PS Audio's summer promotion, wit... | |
| really inexpensive power cords I have to say that I've found the results of this poll of a'gon opinion rather disquieting.The consensus seems to be: stay with the stock cables, buy Volex 17604, or try Signal, VenHaus, or MAC (to which one might add Element). No substantive comm... |