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| Soliciting Member Perspectives: Levinson vs Bryston vs Audio Research I have loved the Bryston amps I have heard many times at The Show with Magnaplanars. In fact, was a complete Bryston system and breathtaking. My only local high-end dealer has Acoustic Research and those were fantastic with Aerial speakers. I love... | |
| The Science of Cables These arguments are so exhausting as people seem to have made up their minds already. Some of us actually listened first and then when confronted with the real experience of different sounding cables began to dig into the science in order to bette... | |
| Proceed AVP differences I use one of these preamps. I've read there was a card option to allow an analog 5.1 input. | |
| Is it the beer or do speakers/electronics really need some extended warm-up period? For many years my big system needed about 20-30 minutes of playing time to sound its best even with everything powered on 24/7. I believe it was the tubes in my preamp and dac but the Sumo Nine Class A & Audio Alchemy transport warm up as wel... | |
| Amps from the 1980's -- What gear holds up sonically? Reliably? I've had several models of Sumo amps through here in the past 20 years, of them 3 Nine Class A's including the prototype. None of them needed recapping (per James Bongiorno who I befriended in '98) and all of them sounded great. We did mod the Nin... | |
| Ry Cooder recommendation... A real rare one that is pretty bare bones instrumental music is the soundtrack to The End of Violence. Now most all of Wim Wender's films have great soundtracks (Until the End of the World is a stupendous mix of tracks, enhanced with overdubs and ... | |
| THE WALL---Why? It is mostly the fact that power conditioners or whatever you want to call them have a maximum current capacity and amplifiers need a lot of current. Regenerative power supplies have rather severe limitations for maximum wattage and can be damaged... | |
| Are there headphones that image in front of you rather than in your head? AKG K-270 headphones have separate tweeters that fire from the front. Perhaps the 1000 mentioned before is also like this. | |
| Can I use a step up transformer? You can certainly try a step-up but in my experience they color the sound too much and lose the low end. I've had Sony, Denon (2 kinds, they where the best IMHO), Dynavector, & Fidelity Research, they were great investments, I sold them all fo... | |
| Power Cord Length I love how people who have never tried "fancy" AC Cords are so sure they cannot make an audible difference. I hate that they do indeed make quite a difference in most cases but they are terribly synergistic and it is difficult to recommend any one... | |
| Cerious Technologies NEW Graphene Cables Stealth Audio Cables has had a graphene cable for many years, the Metacarbon. It is actually the designers favorite but IMHO is still miles behind the incredible Sakra helium dielectric cable (which uses amorphous alloy wire, and I was part of dev... | |
| Changed amps - center image moved I find a diffuse center image is often 'fixed' by using cones beneath the amp. One amplifier I reviewed came with Audioquest Bigfeet (sorbothane) and I felt the imaging was quite non specific.The designer told me that was his intention as it is mo... | |
| Neutral electronics are a farce... I record, mix, master classical and rock music semi-professionally (you’ll never get to hear it but some has been on the radio). I review gear for a little magazine about 3 years now. I feel I’ve been listening critically since about 1974 and star... |