willow7
Responses from willow7
| the gateway product that turned you into an audiophile Enjoy reading this thread - lots of product names from the past that bring back memories. My path began with a pair of stacked Advent speakers powered by a Mitsubishi integrated amplifier and a Dual turntable. | |
| Footers under new speakers Had a local shop cut some granite (counter top) into the size/shape desired (slightly oversized) as a base for the speakers and then placed on the floor consisting of thick carpet over concrete. Similar to concrete patio block idea except with som... | |
| Bluesound Node Icon After about 20 hours of run time in a an A/B comparison the new Icon DAC section is much improved over last gneration NODE, However little SQ improvement if using an external DAC (Marantz Ruby SACD with matching Ruby integrated amp, T+A 300 speake... | |
| Need Opinions for Different Cable Manufacturers/Cable Designs Your comment "warm sound with lots of clarity and detail and naturalness" were the words I used in the journey to find IC's and speaker cables for my Marantz/Focal setup. Started with AQ (need to go very high in price), then DH labs (great value, ... | |
| Power Cables <$500 for Digital Sources Take a look at moon-audio.com and their black or blue dragon power cables. The under $500 black version uses quality Furutech plugs. I use them on my main system. Big fan of Cardas and the Parsec is good for affordable PC. | |
| All Hail the meek --yet mighty – NODE 2i Absolutely, the Node and excellent BluOS app is often underestimated. When tweaked wtih the Teddy Pardo LPS, ethernet cabled, and coax cabled to exteral DAC - the SQ is really good (of course not using much of the Node but the transport). We use ... |