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| Electrocompaniet EMC-1 A very good CDP according to all reviews, however for $4000new I would try one of the many excellent $1-2000 outboard DACs first with your existing player used as a transport.Offers a flexible appraoch to future upgrades as well. | |
| Speaker Cable Length As has been discussed in many threads, if you have audio rack on side wall use long ICs to amp between speakers, and short speaker cables, cheaper total cost and better sound. I would not go shorter than 6ft on speaker cables for the simple reason... | |
| Systems:some tweek responsive,some not? I think possibly it is more the owner is more responsive to "minor tweaks" than the system. I notice some members constantly change cables, speakers, etc. every month, each time saying they have a great cable now.....till next month.Some people li... | |
| demagnitizing CD s? brauser, what are the improvements you are hearing, which as you say makes Bedini II a "no brainer" tweak? Are you using duplicate CDs to carefully compare treated vs untreated CDs? And if you aren't what do you base your observations on? | |
| demagnitizing CD s? I own both radio shack demag unit and bedini II, and the bedini II is better IMO. However I rarely use either unitnow as I have become less convinced over time that they makea noticable improvement. Just follow instructions with RSunit as Albert a... | |
| Group buy/share spools Belden wire 4 PCs A word of caution: unless you know what you are doing don'tplay around with making AC cords. You can seriously damage you equipment, risk electrical shock, start a fire etc. | |
| Late 60s Stones Unfortunately all Abkco Cds I have heard of early Stones are bad, especially Hot Rocks. I didn't realize these were mono masters "rechanneled" to stereo. I belive Virgin catalog starts at Exile on main Stto present and these albums are much better... | |
| Vibrapods and Speakers RC, I believe Anna Logg was also mentioned in the Sounstage article by Greg Weaver couple years ago, they both had Von Schweikert speakers and she told Greg to use the vibrapods on the speakers instead of the Black Diamond Racing cones that came s... | |
| Musical Fidelity A3CD player Yurko, yes power supply upgrade available if you send unit to BC for install I believe cost is @$200 but don't quote me on that, some members here are having it done. I last talked to BC couple weeks ago and was informed that in a few months they ... | |
| Musical Fidelity A3CD player Cal, I have not heard any electrostatic speakers driven byMF so I can't comment. Personally I use PSB Silver-i and Gold-i, very good sound for the money. If you like warm sound you might look into Vandersteen speakers, many many choices, try to he... | |
| Keeping cables off the floor I have tried this tweak very carefully evaluating it, and I hear no noticable improvement or change in sound. I at firstthought this worth doing and an engineer friend of mine cameover and shook his head when he saw the elevated cables, he chuckle... | |
| BMI Whale vs King Cobra V2, others? I would follow DKuipers advice and get a trail listen to Shunyata Hydra, which improves all components in your system, before you spend big money on individual AC cords.You can call Galen Carol in texas for low down on the hydra. | |
| Shakti Stone? Shakti stones are very light not meant for dampening effect. They are supposed to absorb EMF which causes distortion in your audio signal. As I stated above I experimented with stones on CDP, Dac, preamp, amp. Easy to audition because you add/remo... | |
| Musical Fidelity A3CD player Cal, I do have a lot of MF gear, the DAC for you if you can swing the price is the new Bel Canto DAC1 with new power supply and tweaked board, retail is $1295 but you should get some discount with your dealer. Very good for solid state system, slo... | |
| best cd player used under 2k. Eric, newest Bel Canto DAC1 with updated power supply and tweaked board for $1395, MSB gold link dac $1395, Perpetual Tech P1a/P3a $1700 and others have all been extensively reviewed in major publications in the last year.....Sam Tellig just disco... |