chayro
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| Harbeth SHL 5 amplification I think what is almost uniformly left out of these type of discussions are the listener's musical preferences and expectations. If all one listens to is string quartets, solo guitar and other small-scale works, a low-powered tube amp may be absol... | |
| Chinese fake cables How fake, how good? I'm not sure how strong the laws are in China against counterfeiting, if they exist at all. I believe this is one of the subjects of the current talks between our countries. OTOH, there are several companies marketing products here that slap the... | |
| Worth to upgrade my Audience aR6-TSS to aR6-TSSOX? For that kind of money, you should be saying "holy crap" or it's equivalent. When I upgraded from the AR6 to the AR6T, that's how I felt. It was a definite upgrade. Everything sounded less electronic with more space between instruments. The re... | |
| Harbeth SHL 5 amplification As I said in my response to your previous post, you need to demo the speakers at home with your equipment. Or at least bring your amp to the dealer. That said, if you are looking for "power" the SHL5s will sound better, IMO with a robust amplifi... | |
| Headphones? I could use your experience/thoughts. Jusk make sure you know that Grados have no isolation whatsoever. You need to listen in a quiet room, just like with your speakers. I have a pair of G1000i and they're great. | |
| Mark Levinson - how to fix white logo paint that has peeled away? I used to sell and mix custom paint colors and there are a thousand different shades of white. Each one had little bits of yellow, black, red...Whatever it took to get the desired shade. You will never match it exactly without knowing the precis... | |
| Directionality, Fuses, Demagnetizing, Warm-up: Tweaks Matter! I was a professional musician for many years and I learned something - don't assume that nobody else can hear something just because you can't. I had a professor that said anyone who couldn't hear the difference between a white key and a black ke... | |
| Directionality, Fuses, Demagnetizing, Warm-up: Tweaks Matter! Are there truly people out there unable to hear this? Or is it that they are so sure of what they think must be that they’ve never actually tried to discern what is? A little of both? Or completely different? ________________________Yes.And there ... | |
| Harbelth HL5plus As you are working with a dealer, a home demo is in order. That is the only way you will know what kind of bass response you are going to get in your room and with your amplifier. The Leben is a low-powered unit and may not elicit the bass you n... | |
| Music I would succumb to under torture I personally cannot stand Rush. Bad music played well. But that's me. | |
| Quiet Enjoyment: right of audiophiles neighbors to NOT be annoyed "Annoy" is a flexible term. To some, if they hear anything at all, they are annoyed. People love to play the victim because it puts them in a position of moral authority. A friend of mine once walked in front of someone on line in the supermarke... | |
| Poll: Naim owners, what cabling are you using? DIN? RCA? NACA5? Other? @williewonka - as I recall, the little Nait did not require the use of Naim cables for extra inductance, which I believe is what prevented oscillation. That's how I remember it. So the issue is not low capacitance, but higher inductance that's n... | |
| Poll: Naim owners, what cabling are you using? DIN? RCA? NACA5? Other? I think you can probably use any flatcap with the CD5s, The flatcap, unlike the Hicap, has 2 outputs, so you can probably upgrade both, but I got out of the Naim game before your integrated came out. My guess though, is that you might find more ... | |
| Poll: Naim owners, what cabling are you using? DIN? RCA? NACA5? Other? All I can say is, you will be shocked at the degree of upgrade the flatcap makes with the CD5x. IMO, it should be your first investment and then the Hiline. IMO, you should leave the speaker cables until last, if at all. | |
| Poll: Naim owners, what cabling are you using? DIN? RCA? NACA5? Other? I don't think you're going to find many Naim lovers here. I was heavily into it back in 2005 or so and I think it's great stuff. At that time, they only had the standard grey DIN interconnect, but when the HiLine came out it was a revelation. I... |