zephyr24069
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| what are some digital cable upgrades/servers? 75-ohm with RCA pin is S/PDIF; I'm no expert so I cannot tell you the diffs at the cable/specification level.I've listened to the Harmonic and several other 75-ohm cables before; in your price range, I'd suggest the Eagle Eye. You'll be amazed at ... | |
| what are some digital cable upgrades/servers? Are you referring to TOSLink, S/PDIF (Coaxial) or AES/EBU?I've auditioned Meridian gear before; their gear excels at digital, I am not surprised you found their native inputs and outputs were superior to your ears.Reasonable cost digital cables I'... | |
| budget balanced pre amp, tube or SS? Thank you very much for the info! | |
| budget balanced pre amp, tube or SS? Jb: Thanks...was not aware of this pre-amp; can you send me some info such as any website with info on the product, any pictures from your setup if you have them, etc...?Does this pre allow for simultaneously active balanced outputs? I vertically ... | |
| budget balanced pre amp, tube or SS? Hey Chad! What Classe power are you using/will you use?Did you mean to say balanced input or did you mean tosay balanced power?I'm still enjoying my Classe CP-700 pre very much; it's notin the budget category however there is a CP-500, CP47.5,CP60... | |
| cardas gold ref speaker cable vs audioquest volcan I have shotgun runs of AQ Volcano on Legacy Focus HDs in a bi-amped scenario with Edge NL 12.1 amps. The AQ Volcano has shown me limitless bottom and top-end range, effortless dynamics and great musicality without too much coloration of the signal... | |
| Speaker shipping suggestions Depending upon the size of the speakers, weight and overall dimension of each shipping box, you may or may not be able to utilize UPS Ground with which I've had good luck shipping heavy amplifiers (120 pounds each), high-end transport, DAC and clo... | |
| New dedicated lines Gs: I did not have a chance to thank you for your post back in November as I learned alot from it. In speaking with my contractor who did my additional wiring it seems that when I made my original request to skip the Romex and move the circuits to... | |
| Starker 6 Cello Suites Frankly, I like them all; the nuances among the performing styles and the interpretations are all worth (IMHO) having. | |
| Best Recordable CD-R Media ??? HHB (non-gold) and Mobile Fidelity 24K Gold CD-R's have served me well; I stick with the 1x, i.e. slow-speed record-ables to allow for better output discs. | |
| HDMI to DVI adapter? AQ makes good quality DVI->HDMI and HDMI->DVI versions of the adapter. I use one of each in my system to/from my Lumagen Scaler and RPTV with good results. I don't have the color space issue outputting 480p from my transport into my scaler a... | |
| Starker 6 Cello Suites Agreed...the MLP SACDs made from original 35mm master tapes are excellent. I have the following Starker recordings across3 MLP SACDs;- Bach, Bruch, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Lalo, Saint-SaensIn addition, on TopMusic (also Delos Int'l), there ... | |
| Mixing a Stereo pre-amp with HT Pre-amp processor Agreed as well...I run this type of configuration and am extremely happy with it; I've got the best of both worlds in that the pre-amp I am very happy with is also serving as the baseline of the sound quality for the L/R channels in home theater. ... | |
| New dedicated lines Agreed...just put two in my room in late July. I had the electrician wire them so that;- they were on the same leg/phase- they did not share a neutral- all circuits were re-ordered s.t. the 20-amp dedicateds were the 1st 2 circuits off the main; t... | |
| Tube CD Players other than Jolida I've heard that Vincent Audio tubed CD players are quite good and well constructed. I'm thinking about picking one up personally as a trial to playback HDCD as their models have this capability. |