twoleftears

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Marantz SACD30N
The Model 30 shares a lot of its design with the Marantz Ruby player.  Just compare photos of the innards of the two models.  However, given the lower price and added features, Marantz much have cut corners somewhere in the newer model.  How this ... 
question for Luxman L-590AX owners
@builder3    Can we go back to basics?  Would I be right in assuming that you've had other integrated amps or power amps in the same house that, when plugged in, didn't hum?We also have reports of exactly the same model humming in other people's h... 
Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling
@grannyring  I don't doubt the superiority of the helix designs.What I meant was more that some people's concerns about oxidization led us back to the tinning of copper wire to prevent that.Moving on.  Has anyone tried this?https://www.hificollect... 
Perfect Path Tecnologies ‘The Gate’
@mahgister  Your irony detector is malfunctioning. 
Perfect Path Tecnologies ‘The Gate’
Here's something that I don't see addressed nearly frequently enough.The optimal humidity level in the listening room.  The humidity % is evidently going to affect all the components, large and small, in the system, as well as the air through whic... 
Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling
Which leads us back full circle to the Duelund tinned copper in cotton.Is the red stuff a DIY version of what Anti-Cables does? 
Shopping for new speakers-need ideas... Selling old DQ-10's...
The @+username feature only works about 1/3rd of the time.  There is always a limited number of names offered in the drop-down menu when you hit @, and often the person to whom you're trying to respond isn't listed there.  One of the glitches of t... 
Help me build my system - amp for b and w 705 s2.
Find a good, used  Marantz PM-KI Ruby. All your problems solved.  
Classical Music for Aficionados
Stephen Hough, Brahms, Op. 116-119.  Wonderful. 
Raven Osprey vs Octave 110 with low sensitivity speakers
@davidantonio  Have you checked his system page to see what brand of amp he actually owns??? 
Biographies
Eugen d'Albert only managed six wives.  What an underachiever!  But in good company with Henry VIII.https://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/features/did-you-hear-about-the-six-wives-of-eugen-dalbert/  
Classical Music for Aficionados
The Buniatishvili phenomenon is quite interesting.  I searched professional reviews of the Schubert disc, and just about all the critics disliked it or struggled to say something nice about it.On Amazon it has something like 175 reviews, and 95% o... 
DVD player playing CD's
Think of the price of a DVD player you're considering.  Now think of all the video circuitry going into it.  Now think of a similarly priced CD player, and think of what isn't included in it.The best thing is to use the DVD player as a transport a... 
Own Magnepans? Got Cats?
Vandersteen 1, 2, 3, aka scratching posts. 
Classical Music for Aficionados
Listening to Buniatishvili's Schubert disc: Sonata D 960, Impromptus D 899 capped with the delicious Liszt Standchen transcription.I am entranced by her playing.  Rermarkable lyricism and delicacy in the p and pp passages.The piano sound is intere...