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| what is everybody listening to right now One of my favorites this year is the group Switchblade Symphony who sound like gothic trip hop/rock music. If you take the truly excellent Massive Attack "Mezzanine" album sound and add to it a gothic theme you have "Three Calamities" the third al... | |
| JOB, BelCanto, Perpetual, MilleniumDACs? Sol, I will of course share results after break-in, my system very similar to Wes Phillips, Musical Fidelity A3CD MF amp/preamp.......I am very happy with current system for Classical and other well recorded material, but 1/2 of CD collection is r... | |
| Best ss Line Level Preamp under $10K ?? Sean, checking the net I discovered CTC Blowtorch preamp is real, a John Curl collaboration retail $9000. Unit is being promoted by Bound for Sound magazine. At first I too thought this was a joke, strange name, very much like a Sluggo joke. I hav... | |
| Any advice on CD player upgrade? John, if Arcam A7 has digital output you may want to consider using A7 as transport and buying used Dac here. Bel Canto, Birdland, Millenium etc 24/96 that produce sound you have to pay $2000+ in new player to get | |
| JOB, BelCanto, Perpetual, MilleniumDACs? Tubegroover, I purchased used Bel Canto Dac1 couple days ago, will start out with HT cyberlink copper digital cable, and keep an eye out for used Illumination D60 or HT cyberlink platinum here at audiogon to upgrade to. This will go with my Musica... | |
| ADD Analog to Digital best for Classical Just to further comment I picked up latest issue of TAS and saw a review of EMI Mahler 2 Klemperer/Schwartzkof "recordinging of the century" remaster series using ART tech. This performance is from early sixties, is fit on one disc, performance ge... | |
| Budget Powerline cond Recommendations Without a doubt the best sounding budget condtioner is Monster HTS2000 buy from globe-mart.com for $125 new. Robt Harly of TAS was amazed at its performance for price. | |
| ADD Analog to Digital best for Classical Sugar, I rarely buy new classical performances because of the wealth of excellent and inexpensive back catalog remasters, but the few I have purchased have all been DDD recordings. I have commented before that Decca "legends" EMI "recordings of th... | |
| MIT and tubes No one here, except Orb, has mentioned that MIT newest ICs are ISN (input specific networks) with three impedance ranges to better match tube equipment. Also speaker cables are now available in solid state and tube designs. Available in 330 (high ... | |
| Bass Cable-Copper or Silver? DJ, a second AQ cable for bass like Forest/Midnight would be great, or if cost is no factor a second run of AQ Clear. I would not mix cable from another company, although I have seen some reviewers do this, this can be problematic. As to copper vs... | |
| JOB, BelCanto, Perpetual, MilleniumDACs? Tubegroover, what digital IC are you using, did you try toslink connection? many people say they hear big difference between coaxial/toslink connection | |
| Anybody knows about NBS cables? Gino, I also deal with Wen from time to time, just wondering how did you justify the big jump in cost from Goertz MP $130 to NBS Monitor IV at $700 each.....did you try many other ICs at that price and lower or did you follow Wen"s advice? | |
| dedicated interconnect ? Glen, have you gone to EVS Millenium Dac site, www.tweakaudio.com ,they talk about this type of "tweak" under his tweak section. However extreme caution is recommended because of electrcal shock or fire hazard possibilities.......not to mention yo... | |
| JOB, BelCanto, Perpetual, MilleniumDACs? Phile, EVS = electronic visionary systems, website is www.tweakaudio.com Fam makes good point that there are several Bel Canto DAC1s used here at Audiogon for $800-900, and soundstage.com also has good review of Bel Canto....... | |
| Cheap Powercords...worth the effort??? BTW G13 reminds me AR complete can be CDP or an integrated amp, if you have both start with CDP cord first, will produce largest improvement, Sam |