zargon
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| Vandersteen 5 and 5A owners PS, and you can surmise why AQ uses 5As for voicing their cables. | |
| Vandersteen 5 and 5A owners 4yanx, I understand your concern about inserting an Amazon IC in the chain. I offer a couple of thoughts. First, the Amazon is a very good IC. Second, there is barely 6" of it. And third, there is probably more wire than that on either side of it ... | |
| Vandersteen 5 and 5A owners 4yanx, I have heard both the 5 and 5A using both rca and XLR, but the differences in other components and rooms would more than mask this difference. I haven't had the opportunity to A/B just that change in a single system and single listening ses... | |
| Proper method when rack is not on cement floor Lets us know what you learned and how it ended up. Have fun! | |
| Proper method when rack is not on cement floor Tonyptony,If I understand it, you have an unusual situation where the speakers are in one end of a room with a suspended floor over the basement, and the components are in the other end of the room over a suspended crawl space. Your concern is whe... | |
| Audioquest cables: replace the DBS Battery pack. Bernhardknoop, your experience confirms what I understood should happen. Elduende, I would guess that AQ has discovered that while 12v works, the higher voltages are even more successful in keeping the dialectric formed (not influenced by music si... | |
| Tube Testers. Which to buy and where? The B&K 747 is a solid state unit that is easy to use and tests all the later tubes (50s on up). They can be found for $300 or less depending on condition. | |
| Audioquest cables: replace the DBS Battery pack. While I have no association with AQ, it seems many are misunderstanding what I believe they are claiming (whether true or not). The DBS is supposed to keep the cable dialectric "formed", that is, broken in. So comparing the cable with and without ... | |
| Headphone amps I third the Earmax. Relatively inexpensive OTL tube amp, small and portable, and a very impressive sound with the Sennheisers. | |
| The best headphone amplifier for Senheiser HD-650 Consider the EarMax or EarMax Pro, OTL, with 3 small tubes. It is compact, very easy to listen to, and relatively inexpensive to experiment with other tubes. You can find them used around $400 or less. | |
| Speaker cables for Vandersteen 5As? According to AQ, there won't be any breakin or further change due to the DBS. I have been comparing the Cheetah DBS with some older Anacondas. No matter how long I leave the Cheetahs off the system, when I put them back they sound the same. Not tr... | |
| Speaker cables for Vandersteen 5As? Cdw57: Did you buy the Kilimanjaros with DBS? If so, are you finding them ready to go? If not, are you noticing a change during breakin? | |
| Speaker cables for Vandersteen 5As? Cdw57 - My dealer sells Vandersteen, and AudioQuest exclusively. He claims that Richard Vandersteen has used AudioQuest frequently both in factory tests and in shows. I tried a number of different cables with my 5As and ended up agreeing with both... | |
| best recording of Diana Krall ? I have every one, and its definitely "Love Scenes". | |
| Old Vandy 2Cs worth the cheap price for starter? My new reference system is in the living room, and I have kept my 2Cis for my office system. They are just too good to give up, and I couldn't buy anything nearly as good for the price I could get used. One of my sources is a McIntosh MR67 tube tu... |