rcprince
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| Fidelity Timf, on your last point, I have not heard any system that can reproduce the dynamics of a live performance, there's always some form of compression, particularly a full blown orchestral climax. You'd need many thousands of watts and a speaker cap... | |
| Living Stereo SACD's are a comin Thanks, Kal, that's what I wanted to know. Hadn't gotten to reading this month's magazines yet. | |
| Living Stereo SACD's are a comin Is there anything in the jacket notes that would indicate if these SACDs are made from the original analog tapes to DSD or from pcm masters? I am hesitant to buy recordings I already have on good vinyl in the SACD format if they come from pcm (pos... | |
| Quattro Fil vs Valhalla I think it's possible that any unused input/output is letting RFI into your system--I know that's why people use shorting plugs or things like the Cardas Caps on their unused preamp inputs. Maybe that's happening here? | |
| Fidelity It's actually an interesting philosophical question, though in the end Reubent is right, if it brings you enjoyment don't worry about it. Initially, my understanding of the meaning of high fidelity/hi-fi was to mean fidelity to the source, i.e., t... | |
| Freezer Cryoed Cables... No, but if you see some NBS Omegas there, that's the guy!! She claims she thought they were very large sausages that had turned grey with mold... | |
| Freezer Cryoed Cables... Damn it, I put my cables into the trash bags as Rpatrick suggested and then into the freezer, but my wife cleaned out the freezer and threw them out this weekend!!!! Be forewarned if you try this tweak! | |
| So YOU can't hear a difference in cables The Van den Hul carbon fiber cables are exactly as you described; the First was even better, but I had hum problems with it. If you like the sound of the VDHs, no reason why you shouldn't stick with them; if you want cables without that glare you ... | |
| Dynaudio Evidence Temptation? David, of all the amps I heard with the Temptations, the Boulders easily were the best in the bass; they had more uncovered low frequency ambient information than any amp I've ever heard, a very noticable trait. I think you'll like the combination... | |
| Dynaudio Evidence Temptation? I have heard the Temptations at my dealer's on a lot of occasions for several years. Amps used include the Accuphase 50 watt class A stereo amp, the Boulder 1000 series monos, Lamm ML1.1s and the Siltech amps, the latter two tubed designs. If you ... | |
| Quattro Fil vs Valhalla Valhalla is better to my ears than the Quattro Fil in precisely the areas you mentioned--basically, it's a little less lean sounding overall, which I view as a good thing. That's why I replaced a run of QF with the Valhalla. Ultimately, though, it... | |
| Toslink Survey / Please Participate I used Toslink years ago when I had a Meitner CD3 feeding a Krell DAC (should never have sold that Meitner). The plastic Toslink cables were not nearly as good as the glass ones--don't ask me why; you could bend the plastic cable and mess up the s... | |
| How do you fix an ''out of print'' scratched CD ? I believe that there are some products out there which are designed for this sort of thing, but at more a last resort--you might check Music Direct or Elusive Disc to see if they have anything like this. The one I saw advertised years ago (Buff St... | |
| which power tube sounds better: EL34 or 6550 John tracy, I agree with you 100%. I was speaking of some NOS Mullards I've heard in my 80s, but even they couldn't match the GECs overall and in the mids it was very close between them. If you've got the scratch, they're the best way to go, in my... | |
| Chord 64, ECD-1, Audio Logic, Dodson DAC opinions I would slightly disagree with Audioengr in that the current version of the Audio Logic, with its transformer coupling, is not really a "tubey" sounding piece anymore in the classic sense--earlier versions, particularly the early Model 34s, could ... |