vicweast
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| Doubling a Set of Speaker Cables @almarg Thank you for the excellent information. Have you any direct experience with Paul Spelt's Zero- Autoformers? It seems to me that they have the opposite effect over doubling (or more) a speaker cable run, do I understand that correctly? | |
| Music Server format? I am afraid this is a personal decision, but there are several things to keep in mind. If you start with a recording and convert it, the most you will get in the conversion is the same quality albeit in a different format. If you are not careful i... | |
| Power conditioner help So, based on comments here and elsewhere I called Transparent and asked about their power conditioners. The young guy was very nice, and he tried to be helpful but alas, he could not give me a technical explanation for his marketing/sales spiel. T... | |
| Raven Audio Tube amps @mtrot ...If you liked tube amplification, you would love a really well-made tube-powered CD player. | |
| A nice read on tubes! Thanks for the link, it was a good read. Some of the comments are savage, but a few solid points are made in them. | |
| The most transparent speaker cable I'm still listening to my cheap AntiCables and loving what I both hear and don't hear. The only real temptation I have is to follow the Tempo Electric recipe for big-twist speaker cables, but again... I like what I have now and paid less than $300... | |
| Raven Audio Tube amps I posted above, this is an update. I moved the Raven Blackhawk LE from my living room system into my home office where I previously had some excellent solid state Parasound gear (the "Z" half-width rack-mountable gear, very good). Well... All I ca... | |
| What cables are you using for a hidden in wall clean look? I have B&W 802 D3s coming. @mgould This is one link: http://www.bluejeanscable.com/articles/inwallrating.htmHere are a few quotes from that link:"The main purpose of NEC is to prevent hazards to human health and safety from wiring, and these fall primarily in a few categori... | |
| Power conditioner help This is a very interesting thread. As far as balanced power goes, I have only read a little about this and all of it has been vendor material. I have yet to get an audio amp manufacturer (other than PS Audio) to weigh in, and would welcome that.@j... | |
| Power conditioner help @jay23 What is behind my attitude is the disconnect between my experiences, the experiences of those I know and in contrast what a few posts here stated. Taken together they do not agree: Hence the question — what gear, what circumstances? I asked... | |
| Anyone using Speltz Anti cables XLRs My understanding is that XLR is such a leap over RCA (signal quality, especially over longer cable runs) that even a decent but budget XLR will bring advantages over a high-end RCA. The problem is that most vendors do not include XLR interconnect... | |
| What cables are you using for a hidden in wall clean look? I have B&W 802 D3s coming. @bcowen My understanding about "plenum rated" cables is that code has to do with a fire combusting the insulation and thereby creating toxic smoke. The AntiCables seem to not fall into that category, but they are not plenum rated nor are they des... | |
| Power conditioner help @reynolds853 [ shhh! don’t tell them how great an amp the Ayon Triton III is... I pulled the superior but failure-prone original Ayon KT88 BTSX tubes (@$180 each) and am just now getting the replacement Gold Lions into the fully-burned-in state. I... | |
| Power conditioner help I commented earlier (above) on this, but I am simply astonished at the comments that poo-poo buffering power regenerators. Not a single negative comment rings true in my personal experience over at least 10 years of use with numerous different reg... | |
| which budget FM Tuner What fun! vintage tuners! You should have numerous options in great gear at the used $200 price point. ...And, if you don't like it -- hello audiogon and good-bye experiment. I picked up a SUMO tuner last year, and it's quite the little tuner! Gre... |