ziggy333a
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| ARC Ref150 or Aesthetix Atlas with Vandersteen 5A Definitely give John Rutan a call. Besides a great guy, he really knows Vandy's and which equip. sounds the best with them. Audioconnection in NJ. | |
| Best Song Intro Another Vote for Sweet Jane live on " Rock and Roll Animal" Hunter and Wagner on guitar. | |
| Nordost vs. Transparent...which is better? Hi Adg,Its ziggy (Frank) Glad your really enjoying the Valhalla IC in your system. Couldn't agree more but did not know you purchased Valhalla PC. As you know I have all Brahma PC's. Do you think the PC had a lot to do with your system sounding so... | |
| Cable Recommendations Never owned your equipment but I'll suggest cabling on my system. Started with a bloom of Acoustic Zen.(Krakatoa PC, Silver Ref IC's and Satori shotgun SPC)As in this hobby your always looking to upgrade, so after reading countless positive review... | |
| Best speaker on used market around 10,000.00 Vandersteen 5A | |
| Your First Concert was..... Alice Cooper's "Welcome To My Nightmare" at Madison Square Garden in 1975.I was 15 at the time and its still my BEST CONCERT so far. He was on another planet with a tremendous band. | |
| Guitar Solos Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter on Aerosmiths "Train kept a rollin" and Earl Slick's solo on "Moonage Daydream" on David Bowies, DAVID LIVE record. Just to namea couple for me. | |
| NORDOST HEIMDALL VS A ZEN SILVER MK II At one point I had All AZ cabling in my system, including the Silver II. Sounded fine with my Pass Labs amps, Cary CD, and Vandy 5A speakers. But after hearing so much positive feedback on Nordost cables, I decided to give them a listen. I first b... | |
| Best Sounding CD / SACD player under 15K Personally Esoteric sounded horrible on my system. Joefama, another player to consider is the Cary 306 pro version ($8,000). It upsamples, plays CD/SACD/HDCD's and is American made. I own the CD-500 and will be my lastCD player. Save your money an... | |
| The amazing new Marigo Evolution Signature Mat After reading all the hype about the CD mat, I decided to purchase one from MusicDirect. I received mine yesterday and heard NO DIFFERENCE at all. On my system their was absolutely no sonic improvement. Just sent it back today.Cary CD-500 PassLabs... | |
| Next upgrade I recently owned the OL Aurora MKII with the Encounter arm and a Shelter 501 cart. Depending on your budget, Start with just the table and then add the upgraded arm and cart. Do you own a RCM? Super clean vinyl is a must. | |
| Best CD player under $5K? Just purchased a Cary CD-500 from Johnny R at Audio Connection. It will be my last CD player, it sounds that good on my system. It also plays HDCD's and upsamples from the remote. The player retails for $3000. | |
| Biwiring Vandersteens w/ Audience AU24e, a match? No experience with Audience SP cables, but Kimber Kable 12TC double run was recommended to me by a Vandersteen/Audio Research dealer here in NJ. I also spoke to the Cable Co. about my Vandersteen/pass labs combo and he also recommended the Kimber1... | |
| Short runs of flexible power cord? I use Acoustic Zen PC's which for their thickness are pretty flexible. I have a couple 2 foot in length Krakatoa's made shorter by AZ. Plus they sound Great.Actually I will be selling one of the shorter ones soon. | |
| Best Live Album Ever... Thanks Lindisfarne. The 70's had some awesome guitarists, but these guys were special. They did KILL and ROCK!!! |