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| Anybody tried 20th Anniversary Purist cables? Just got these cables. Not yet broken in but pretty incredible on first listens. An XLR to RCA interconnect and speaker cables. Amazing stuff. | |
| Jadis Orchestra Reference SE and DA-50 Integrateds "Jadis products are best enjoyed by folks who get the emotional end of music, and are less concerned about the way things look on paper or measure."Rereading your post once again, I see you've answered this question already. Thanks. | |
| Jadis Orchestra Reference SE and DA-50 Integrateds Wow! I'm really, really impressed by the replies here. Thanks Joe and Mr. Bartok for these exceptional details. Joe, I know that specs really don't mean much but I was curious about the fact that the frequency range on the DA-50 is only 20-17k, wh... | |
| Cable auditions - Hard Work? I think there is some truth in what you say Yuri. Audio listening is entirely "subjective." Why is that? Because the ear is an organ that is the ultimate transmitter to the brain. As long as all potential listening experiences are mediated by such... | |
| Cable auditions - Hard Work? "Washline: The bottom line is this: Without doing blind A/B testing, your emotions and the fact that you spent big bucks on power cables will influence what you are hearing.A/B testing is not enough."Pretty tough to judge people's ears, yuri. Bett... | |
| Best Integrated for the Money I think the AVI integrated is superb for the price. | |
| Cable auditions - Hard Work? Well, I supposedly got suckered into buying a 300 dollar multi-tap with RF nodules some time ago after buying some new components and after having plugged the stock power cords into an el-cheapo multi-tap worth about 5-10 bucks. I was also curious... | |
| Starting From Scratch - What would you do? Yes, you should probably begin with the speakers you love and work backward, but that doesn't mean you have to buy the speakers first and then the rest. I found the speaker range that I wanted first, and then I bought my amp. When I finally got th... | |
| Is There any Truly "High End" Integrated Amp? I was searching this exact question last year. I heard a lot of the amps you mention including the McIntosh 6900, the Krell, the BAT, the Levinson. I've heard the Manley Stingray, Jeff Rowland Concentra, and the Gryphon 2100. I finally settled on ... | |
| Esoteric DV50S, Any Plans to Discontinue? Well the UZ universal is coming out now and is a two channel with single-ended inputs, and priced much higher than the DV-50S currently is. It's also built better from the looks of things. Don't know what this means for the DV50, but I'm guessing ... | |
| Marantz DV-12S2 Thanks Mike. The one who gave me the run around though is Marantz itself, not a dealer. this is the local operation of Marantz and the guy in charge of the repairs is the one who sent the player back to Japan (supposedly). My wager is that Marantz... | |
| JM Labs 927 Be vs Sonus Faber GPH also the 937BE Nice choice. I like these speakers a lot and nearly bought them myself. Hope you enjoy them very much. | |
| Marantz Player Question I should have added that the SA11S1 also uses the Super Ring transformer (so does the SA 17) but it uses a different DAC architecture. My general position here is that if Marantz can't make the repair, they should replace the machine with one of c... | |
| Marantz Player Question Here's an update. I can't believe this is dragging into the new year, but c'est la vie. Marantz initially tried to repair the machine, but was having trouble in doing so. Now they want to trade the player for the DV-12S2 and have me pay additional... | |
| JM Labs 927 Be vs Sonus Faber GPH also the 937BE I much prefer the 937s over the 927s. the 927s did not sound right to me. Some thing with the synergy of the drivers. The 937s were great though. I preferred them to the Diva Utopias, though I finally bought the Altos. I don't like the Sonus Faber... |