shadowcat2016

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New to this. How do I stack my stuff?
A 95 pound amp is heavy, but even plywood would support it with 4 feet or spikes or whatever you want. That's less than 25 pounds per corner. 3/4 ply or just about anything else that you wanted to build, butcher block, layered plywood, whatever. I... 
New to this. How do I stack my stuff?
It’s not fancy, but it’s dirt cheap, quick and solid............cinder block with board shelving between them. You can go wide or straight up depending on your setup.......and wife. You can paint or stain the boards, even paint the block to dress ... 
Cable Burn In
I'm wasn't implying that different cable may or may not sound better or different in a hi-rez system, although in a pure sense, properly designed and built for the application, they should do nothing at all to the sound except get it from A to B. ... 
Cable Burn In
Sorry for the double post, not intentional. 
Cable Burn In
Spent 45 years working on top-shelf military electronics and have been an audiophile for just as long. I don't buy into the cables need to be burned in BS. It's a wire, it won't change tomorrow or next week or next year unless it breaks, shorts or... 
Cable Burn In
Honestly never bought into the cable burn-in thing. It's a piece of WIRE!! There's nothing to burn in................Try this, take two brand new identical cables. Keep one set aside and run the other set continuously in your system for a week, a ... 
DO CABLES REALLY MATTER?
Old thread and ancient topic, but my .02...........Worked on top shelf military electronics for 45 years and we never worried about "better" cables until well up into the Ghz range.............Any cable, properly designed and terminated for the pr... 
Seeking informed advice on speaker acquisition (Vandersteen vs. OHM Walsh)
No experience with Ohm, although I've heard good things over the years. I've owned Vandy 3A's for quite some time and love them. I'd like to upgrade them to the 3A sigs, but don't have 3 grand laying around loose. I recently did a pretty full-on r... 
The new Synergistic Research BLUE fuses ....
Not to "P" on anybodies parade or dispute whatever you hear or THINK you hear, but a fuse isn't going to make any difference in how your gear works or sounds..........I've been an audiophile for 45 years and a career electronics technician working...