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| Tonearm wire, SILVER vs SILVER, all the same? For what it's worth: I've had 2 experiences with silver cable, one in my tonearm and one w/ interconnect, quite a few years apart, yet the experiences were exactly the same. I listened to the silver cable for some weeks, and noticed that I was fee... | |
| Avalon Ascendants - How is the treble? Since I don't know much about the Ascendants, I confess I didn't know there were aluminum vs ceramic tweeters. If I were to buy a pair, I assume they would be new, so I guess I am more interested in opinions about the ceramic tweeters, although I'... | |
| Harbeth Experts I've had a pair of M30's for about 6 weeks. They replaced some Vandersteen 3A sigs. I prefer the Harbeths; they are warmer and have wonderfully detailed midrange, with less emphasis in high end detail (which makes them a bit "forgiving" in charact... | |
| Cardas Cross power cable - brightness issue I appreciate your thoughts, Glenn. I so far can't really figure out the power cable or power conditioner issue. Although I must say, in general, that one of the frustrating things about high end systems (as I've experienced them) is that I can lov... | |
| Cardas Cross power cable - brightness issue Hey, dark and euphonic, I like that! Seriously, I do. And this is interesting advice. I talked to Cardas as well, and they said I hadn't given it enough time to break in...although someone else said power cord doesn't really have break in time, to... | |
| Report on Harbeths vs. Vandersteens Drubin, that's a great thread, and one I studied before committing to the Harbeths. In fact (and this is part of my point about the use of the Forum), I committed to the Harbeths, and gave up the Vandersteens, without having auditioned the Harbeth... | |
| Report on Harbeths vs. Vandersteens Dodgealum, thanks...I do intend to audition the Super HL5's against the M30s...and various of the Spendors. But for now, I'm going to relax for a while and listen to some music. Many of us complain about the "brightness" of the recordings, and tal... | |
| SRA or Symposium? Krisgel - Had the same experience with the Symposiums. If I used the aluminum couplers, the sound was bright. I wondered if I was imagining it, but then tried them with some hard rubber feet under the electronics (from Brown Elec. Labs, that makes... | |
| Manley Snapper or VTL ST 150 The ST 150 is very good in triode mode, but I didn't think it drove the Vandersteen 3a's very well (which are not very efficient...I think they're in the 87dB range or so) except in pentode mode, which I didn't like much. My impression was that th... | |
| Want something more forgiving than Vandy 3a sigs I appreciate your thoughts, sgbaird, and, in fact, I just picked up an old ARC SP-8 for the fun of it to see what it does to the sound to go back in time, so to speak. I may well send it to Great Northern Sound for mods later. I felt that GNSC did... | |
| Want something more forgiving than Vandy 3a sigs I'm happy to oblige with additional information about source material. Here are some "torture test" discs that I like very much, but that I do not favor on the Vandersteens--either at my home, or the dealer's: Delius by Barbarolli on EMI 65119; De... | |
| Want something more forgiving than Vandy 3a sigs Further report for anyone curious: I worked out a trade with a buddy and now have Harbeth M30s, at least on a temporary basis. I prefer their mids and highs to the Vandersteens, personally...lots of musical sounds, though perhaps somewhat less det... | |
| Tube rolling for the Cary SLP 2002 Very interesting, Kyle--I just got back my Cary 2002 Monday, which I had sent in for a similar noise problem in the right channel. The world being the way it is, it didn't make the noise for them, but I had them do the Jensen oil cap upgrade, and ... | |
| Want something more forgiving than Vandy 3a sigs I appreciate everybody's contribution. I've got the Cary SLP98 up and running, and with it in the system, the top end is certainly more relaxed. So I'm going to look at the speakers described, and if that doesn't work, consider some Cary amplifica... | |
| Want something more forgiving than Vandy 3a sigs I'll look into the single driver speaker concept, and thank you for the suggestion...that's a new idea for me.I have tilted the speakers back so that I am not in direct axis with the tweeters.My equipment is on 2 separate circuits, the amp on one,... |