clio09
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| Reality cables or Grover Huffman Grover sells his cables with spade terminations as well. I did not compare so can't offer an opinion on which sounds better. The advice to go bare wire with these is a good one. If I could that is what I would do. | |
| Passive Preamps? Anyone? Are you still using the Paradigm Reference Active 40 speakers? If so and I read the amp specs correctly the line in input impedance is 15k ohms. That is something to take into consideration when selecting a passive preamp. That being said the othe... | |
| Reality cables or Grover Huffman I felt the Grover Huffman cables were a bit livelier with a lower noise floor. They were more flexible as well, but that was not a factor in my choice.BTW - I chose the banana terminations. | |
| Reality cables or Grover Huffman I have heard both in my system and very recently. Tough call, they are both great values. I opted for the Grover Huffman cables. | |
| PAD vs VD Master series ayre ? I had both VD (Nite and Master series) and PAD (Venustas and AA) cables in my system. The PAD interconnects were easier to deal with than the VD. However, I am not sure how they'll sound with Ayre equipment. | |
| Apple macbook, solidstate H/drive option or not. You might be interested in reading this:http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/pcaudio/messages/3/39967.htmlGordon Rankin recommends the SSD and has posted instructions on AA as to how to install one in a Mac Book. | |
| Looking for some cheaper Speaker Cables-$600 or so I have used the Alpha Core MI-2 and now use the Grover Huffman cables. Both are excellent values. | |
| Ground Loop Issue 427 When I lived a few blocks away from a radio station I had all sorts of RFI issues resulting in hum. Phono stages (even solid state) were especially problematic. One of my preamps gave me all sorts of fits.Hopefully your problem is not related to t... | |
| B&K powering Spendor? If I'm correct the power rating on the amp is 225 watts into 8 ohms. The Spendors have a pretty flat impedance curve. I ran a TRL D-225 with my Spendor 1/2e speakers and found they liked the extra power. I have read where others used a lot less po... | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre For a second there I thought I was having a flashback and imagining Bill Feil was engaging Dave and Guido in a pleasant exchange about JRDG products. Then I realized Audiofil does not equal Audiofeil. In any case I can't imagine larger display num... | |
| SS or Tube Preamps with Dual-Balanced outputs My Capri has one balanced output and one single ended output. As pictured in the link.http://www.jeffrowland.com/Capri-back.htm | |
| Worth having my SOTA Sapphire refurbished? You'll probably be too busy enjoying it to get back to us. We'll understand though. | |
| If I like sound of Ayre Integrated I would Like... I miss Romy around here. Luckily I can get my fill over on his site. | |
| Do all Passive preamps exhibit this trait Ralph, glad we're on the same page with TVCs, although I trust your passive volume control option for the M-60s is well designed.Mingles, my K&K TVC (S&Bs) outperformed my Cary SLP-98 ($3995) and Joule Electra LA-100 MkIII ($3750). I'd ven... | |
| Do all Passive preamps exhibit this trait Ralph,That was not my experience using the S&B transformers. My setting was about 12 o'clock and it was fine in my system. My amp was .8V sensitivity with high gain and 67k input impedance. I do agree in principle with what you are saying and ... |