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| Trying to extract more from my Vandersteen My first response was based on the title of your thread. Now that you have opened your options, I can't help going back to and agreeing with Albert's first reply, which suggested a speaker change. Yes, the Vandersteens are amongst the truly great ... | |
| Trying to extract more from my Vandersteen May I offer replacing the MIT speaker cables with a couple of pairs of Alpha-Core MI 2's. You might want to consider replacing the inteconnects too. I don't have a suggestion for those though. Alpha-Core offers a generous 30 day trial period. | |
| Blown Threshold S/300 Stasis II David99, your right to point out the mods. I bought the Threshold gear with the mods so I can't say how much effect they had on the original sound. I do believe the modifications are fairly minor. | |
| Blown Threshold S/300 Stasis II I can only use my Threshold S500/II as a reference here, and while I have sincere respect for David99's opinon, I don't hear "grainy", perhaps a bit hard, but my Threshold could only be described as smooth. I would go as far as to say, very smooth. | |
| Worst Name for A Piece of Equipment Cairn Fog. | |
| Best single-malt Scotch... -J., guess I'd have to put in a hookah to smoke it? | |
| What music do you want to play really loud? John Cage's: "Demonstration of the Sounds of the Environment" | |
| Best single-malt Scotch... -j., I used to like the imported and therefore packaged "Amphora". That's no longer availble here in the states. I now get most of my pipe tobacco loose from Barcley Rex in NYC. A good cigar has beautifull aroma, that is until it lingers. I tend t... | |
| The WORST Components for Rock and Pop Music Quad ESL's? | |
| Best single-malt Scotch... -j, I tend to go towards blends with a lot of burley light. I used to buy Amphora, but, it's no longer imported. I don't care much for the flavored blends. I can enjoy the vanilla ones though. I haven't tried espresso. I tend to smoke a pipe a lot... | |
| Best single-malt Scotch... Jonathan, what kind of tobacco do you prefer? | |
| Speaker match with Pass Labs XA-160 Bartokfan is right on! I would never buy a recording that has a Xylophone on it. | |
| Attention Vandersteen 5A owners/ amp matches 23/12/8? You might get better results working on the room. | |
| Speaker match with Pass Labs XA-160 Perhaps, I'm mistaken here, but, I thought I read in TAS that Nelson Pass didn't think that the XA-160's should be used with speakers that dropped below 6 Ohms. | |
| Best $200 speaker cables for overall performance? Mtrot, may I remind you that Alpha-Core has a very generous trial period. You could try another run, and see if it works for you. If it doesn't, all you'll loose is a very modest (heck, cables don't weight much) shipping fee, if you decide that yo... |