fsonicsmith
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| Soooooooo many possibilities...! Audio Research Ref 6 has not sold me Just curious; which interconnects did you try with the Ref 6? Did you run balanced or RCA? If you go to the Cable forum and read the recent "Balanced Cables" thread, there is some great information from Ralp... | |
| Naim and Elac Adante, Wow I have no dog in this fight. I am not in the market for loudspeakers or any type of component. Audiotroy, I hate to break this to you, but your constant touting of Legacy and your slow but ramped-up cheerleading of Elac is growing tiresome. You ar... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Mikepaul, my system is no-doubt an outlier, but back in July I bought a brand new Ref 6 and Ref 150 SE and then two months later bought a new pair of DeVore 0/93's. I only bring up the "new" nature, because I have gone through the swings of break-... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Is the Ref 10 new or used? If new, it is going to go through some swings between now and the next 200-300 hours. Also, I am just a tad skeptical that before you ever got close to your listening position you jaw dropped-it just smacks of audio-hype... | |
| Balanced cables The Cable Company in Ohio has complete charts of those mathematical values from each high end company for their amps and preamps. If you go into a broadcasting-recording supply house and buy inexpensive cable that matches the value numbers of th... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! OK, every time I tell myself to ignore or simply lurk, this insane thread draws me back in. I feel like Al Pacino in Godfather II. I will echo the previous thread. If you are going to keep the ARC Ref 6-and I fully endorse doing so-you have to exp... | |
| Balanced cables FWIW, I'm looking at my manual to my Ref 150 SE and it does not include a schematic and instead only has some specs, including that the output polarity is non-inverting with "Balanced input pin 2+ (IEC-268)"Also interesting to me is this verbiage;... | |
| Balanced cables Al, that makes a lot of sense to me, but both Warren Gehl (of ARC) and Kalvin told me that the amp employed a differential amplifier at its input. But they may have been reading off of the same cue sheet, which may not have been accurate. Althou... | |
| Balanced cables So Ralph, based on your engineering knowledge, why would ARC make those design choices? Can you hazard a guess as to what the most likely reasons would be? My experience tells me that there must be trade-off considerations-at this level of audio... | |
| Balanced cables Aw geez, once again folks here set up straw-men solely for the purpose of setting themselves up so they can nobly slay them before the spectating masses and then take a bow for imaginary accolades of heroic wisdom. Or put more simply, for crying o... | |
| Balanced cables So Ralph, based on your engineering knowledge, why would ARC make those design choices? Can you hazard a guess as to what the most likely reasons would be? My experience tells me that there must be trade-off considerations-at this level of audio, ... | |
| Balanced cables I agree that simply recommending the cable that worked for you is senseless. However, it is very unfortunate that this thread has to once again devolve into the debate as to whether wire is wire. For those that believe that all wire is wire, fine.... | |
| Balanced cables Atma-Sphere is Ralph Karsten, http://www.atma-sphere.com/AboutUs | |
| Thumbs up for ultrasonic record cleaning Although I really don’t pay much attention to the audio press much any more, I did (kind of ) follow Art Dudley’s move towards the AD cleaner. At first he said he could not afford it, then low and behold he bought one. He is the one writer I have ... | |
| Balanced cables Al, I always read your posts with interest. You clearly know far more than I do about technical aspects of electronics. I can not read a schematic and never understood concepts of loading as it pertains to amps or phono cartridges :-). With that s... |