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| What gear do Audio manufacturers use at home? I have heard Steve McCormack is using Acoustic Zen cables. Word is that a number of fellows at Audio Research, Art Audio, and Soliloquy are using Acoustic Zen as well.Pat McGinty of Meadowlark uses DH Labs cables at home and at trade shows, plus i... | |
| Small Speakers to Use With McIntosh Electronics ? Check out the award winning Epos M12 (monitor), and floor standing M15. Very clear and open. The floor standers are quite small in footprint. | |
| Audioweb/ What a bear Thought I'd try ads at AudioWeb a few times. I consider myself pretty web-savvy, but just couldn't deal with the poor archetecture of the site without more frustration than it seemed worth. | |
| home theater in a box? Check out the Aego5, both with and without their processor.WhatHiFi gave it 5 stars last month, calling it the best one-box small system out there. Same speakers that Michael Fremer raved about in Stereophile (Mar. 2001) as a stereo channel system... | |
| upscaling, bits and resampling ?? Besides having less chance for error, Upsampling systems often have processors doing algorithmic interpolation, dithering, etc. that will add some additional information in between the digital 'spaces'. A well implemented one will reduce the size ... | |
| Is it too mismatched to pair Maggie 1.6 & NAD 370? Consider the wonderful Audio Refinement Multi-2 (retail $1095). It's designed by YBA, a renown high-end French manufacturer, but produced where labor costs are lower. Very clear, smooth, involving, even tubelike without the drawbacks. It puts out ... | |
| 2000 or less : best choices for mains? My experience with Paradigm Reference speakers is that they can sound excellent, but the quality of upstream components is key. It's amazing what these speakers can do with high quality sources, cabling, and recordings. I think you're doing well f... | |
| help with spade connectors Mohamed, This could be a good alternative for you, offering you not only a fit with your Transparent cables, but a permanent upgrade to your speakers. You could go with all copper posts from Cardas or Eddison-Price, which I believe come in 1/4" di... | |
| help with spade connectors It's really the duty of a good dealer to make sure your spade lugs are sized appropriately...yet few will bother, as it takes time and sometimes work on the customer's part to check their post dimensions. I'll put my customers through the check, b... | |
| new acoustic zen digital cable? It's an all silver digital cable. They are still working on the name, but it's currently available.Value Audio-Authorized Acoustic Zen dealer | |
| Apple's Wireless Air Port 2.4 gig...could affect digital signals. Not sure how much. | |
| Audiophile Quality 5 Channel Amp? Audio Refinement by YBA makes a great 5 channel amp. It recently received an editor's choice award in one of the main Home Theater magazines (Perfect Vision, etc.; sorry, I don't recall). Audio Refinement is known for making solid state amps that ... | |
| Integrated Amps: Classe vs. Audio Refinement? We are a dealer of Audio Refinement, and perhaps I can clear up a few things.AR equipment is manufactured in Taiwan, where labor is far less expensive than in France, where the equipment is designed. There are differing qualities of manufacturing ... | |
| Absolute Power Cords? Any opinions? I spoke with someone representing the Absolute cord, but didn't like some things I heard...particularly about them not grounding through the 3rd pin, but instead expecting all emergency grounding to be routed through the rest of your equipment. Th... | |
| Audiophile oddities Don't take it out...it will never sound the same! |