phillyb
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| Best line conditioner??? They are a crap shoot. How your gear reacts to them is the unknown. Balanced power gives some gear fits. I like Furman reference 20i and I have kept it, while others have come and gone and some quick. I feel for front end gear the Harmonic Technol... | |
| Want to buy for a power conditioner? Any power conditioner will change the sound, now if you like it and most of all does your equipment like it. They all interact with the power supplies. Some gear hate balanced power, some get slow sounding. I use a Furman Reference 20i. I tried it... | |
| Attn Vinyl lovers - what CD Player do you use? Nkonor,I thought the British Blue Box was the best the Beatles sounded on vinyl. mobile Fidelity EQ them and I was not happy and really don't like a lot of their releases. Stones sounded better than any releases in Vinyl on the German Telefunken's... | |
| Attn Vinyl lovers - what CD Player do you use? Greg, i never enjoyed early Esoteric. The K series though really hit the mark. I will say best buy in a New CD player is Marantz Reference players, the new one is musical as the old one but more purity. I could live with any of them. The K01 is ju... | |
| Quads Unlimited Restored Quad ESLs I own the 63's with time and care and proper set up and with a good sub you be in haven. If front wall damping is there and corners and you pull the speakers out 3' and play with the toe in, you will be rewarded. If the recording is poor on vinyl ... | |
| Velodyne MiniVee 8 or Sunfire HRS-10 The Mini are great speakers. They go low, are fast and tight. Forget their size they work as advertised. I have used them with Quads and Maggie's. | |
| Sealed subwoofer for ESL-63 Buy a Martin Logan Sub. After all they build Electrostatic speaker. I use one Depthi-i sub with excellent results with Crossover at 35. Seamlessly blends in and makes my 63 sound even better but without hurting the mid range purity. | |
| DSD vs. PCM vs. MQA - Group listening experiment No matter the format medium is the production is bad the sonics will be bad. The only way to improve is to go back and remix. A great recording sounds good on vinyl and CD if mastering was done with care. MQA will never change that and I take this... | |
| Attn Vinyl lovers - what CD Player do you use? This endless Digital vs. Analog is non stop. Having owned both I can say both can be excellent and bad. Much is in the mastering and recording quality to begin with. early digital was new so like early analog it had issues but those days are many ... | |
| Esoteric K01: What are the best settings for CD? You have to let each filter burn in. When I would a/b a setting against the FIR and Org. Setting and i did not like it, like you say a film and bloated. I went to SDYL-2 with Org. As my dealer strongly suggested when I purchased it and gave it a f... | |
| Esoteric K01: What are the best settings for CD? After using my K-01 for a year now. I found the best setting for most music is no up sampling (org). With filter set to Sdyl-2. Sound has so much depth, tone, color, transparent with 3D presence. I was rather shocked at the improvement. I never li... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? It has Soul. It all goes back to mastering. I have owned LP's 1st pressings and 1200 CD's some of the LP's sound better others times CD's sound better. Digital you need a low noise floor, kill the noise from RF by terminating unused inputs and out... | |
| Esoteric K01: What are the best settings for CD? Dgarreston. Use a Harmonic Technology Magic power cord that filters all 3 areas of AC, you won't feel the same. I have 2 of them, thought of selling them, tried several others, pulled my ad and I am keeping the HT cords. There is no equal for fron... | |
| Esoteric K01: What are the best settings for CD? The recording should make or break the sound quality. Always been that way, nice thing is you can use FIR or sdly 1 setting to smooth things out. I never leave Org. though.No different than a phono cartridge, some are vivid and in your face, other... | |
| Esoteric K01: What are the best settings for CD? I think when using the Esoteric el natural org and DF setting much like the SACD when played you are hearing the quality of the DAC's in this unit without manipulating the information off the disc. These units have superb DAC's. I listened to Sina... |