zaikesman
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| Budget Power Cords For Tube Mono Amps ? With my circa-200w VTL monos, the inexpensive aftermarket cord I preferred best among the several I tried was the original Shunyata Sidewinder. Probably like anything in this low price range, it's a cord with discernable flaws (brightness if used ... | |
| Best sounding phono preamp under $600 Mingles: Not that I've heard it either way, but the Phonomena has an optional outboard power supply upgrade available, which as I recall Michael Fremer felt took the performance up significantly. (If I remember correctly, I believe he wasn't as im... | |
| What were your own blind cable test results? You hit upon two of the main difficulties with this type of test from a practical standpoint: You need a partner -- blind testing can't be done by oneself -- and comparing multiple unknowns blind (whether actually involving several different varia... | |
| VTL 450 mystery - please help I don't believe that the Power Plant had anything to do with it. My MB-185's have blown more tubes and fuses than I would've liked to see. About half the time I've owned them they've been plugged into an ExactPower EP15A, but they also blew tubes ... | |
| Soundwave properties, looking for answers. "...better yet to get the bass to reach me in my listening sweet spot and not the corners where I hear them much more than in my listening position"The bass will always be strongest in the corners and near walls. The less leaky of bass -- i.e., th... | |
| What? No Norah Jones New CD Thread? 60 Minutes did a segment on her tonight. The interviewer brought up some critics' complaints (previously unknown by me) that Nora was essentially, as I opined, uninteresting, both as a performer and a songwriter. She didn't really seem to disagree... | |
| Anyone else regenerating A/C? Clio09: Yes it does. This can be problematic with power amps, which can sound constricted, if clean, plugged into the API. (The power amp outlets of course get only filtration, not isolation transformers. A lower-powered amp I once used didn't suf... | |
| Anyone else regenerating A/C? Everyone's take on that last point won't always be the same, probably because no two systems are the same. For instance, I've found that if I only have one superior power cord to use with my digital separates, it makes the most difference if I use... | |
| Upsampling put to "THE TEST": R U ready 2 take it? Dan: I agree, that's the conclusion I came to as well. The bigger problem with CD may not be resolution so much as getting the data from the disk to the converter in real-time with accuracy. It's not that there aren't losses going from analog to 1... | |
| Anyone else regenerating A/C? "Any other subscribers?" Yes, my EP15A powers my whole system, with my preamp and sources being additionally plugged into an API Power Wedge Ultra 116 that follows the EP. This is a balanced isolation transformer unit, not dissimilar from what EP ... | |
| Upsampling put to "THE TEST": R U ready 2 take it? No, but I hasten to state again that I never reached, or ever tried to reach, any sweeping conclusions about upsampling, however that term may be defined. My limited experience couldn't support that. I was mostly hoping for other listeners with ot... | |
| Opinions on newest NHT Absolute Zero My opinion is that Absolute Zero is a cute name. | |
| Thiel 3.7 Some interesting stuff there. As I speculated about in my previous post, the actual woofer does indeed sport a corrugated flat diaphragm, outwardly the same as the passive and different from earlier photos. The blurb talks about elimination of cav... | |
| Exactpower Ep15a or PS-Audio p500 One thing I wonder about is whether feeding my DNA-500 balanced AC would somewhat quiet its moderate physical transformer hum. Of course, using an even bigger transformer to accomplish that task might result in even more hum in the room. But as I ... | |
| Exactpower Ep15a or PS-Audio p500 Not sure that filters ever become "old technology" in the sense that we will ever be without them, but regardless, if the entire waveform is being regenerated, it seems to me PS is not depending on filters to make a dirty waveform cleaner. But wil... |