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| Cambridge Audio D500SE CD player Trelja, Kitch29, does this unit have a digital INput as well as output? If so, I wonder if you could run a digital out to an upsampler, then an input (even, ugh, Toslink) from the upsampler (or for that matter, a DVD player with a digital out that... | |
| Jadis Fidelity Cwlondon, in looking at the cables I mentioned to you, I realized they're all kinda (some might say outrageously) expensive. I should note that Trelja has been using some affordable silver cables with his Jadis with which he is pleased, and that i... | |
| "local" sacd's Excellent post, Onhwy61. Markel's point about upsamplers (or filters, or whatever they really are) is a good one, and I in fact did that about a year ago when I bought a Purcell upsampler, rationalizing at the time that between a $5000 SACD player... | |
| Jadis Fidelity Detlof, you will probably be VERY happy with the Aesthetix, it is one of the few units I have heard which I would put on the same plane as the Jadis equipment and that I would consider as a replacement if I had the money, the space and the inclina... | |
| Jadis Fidelity I replaced a pair of ARC Classic 150s with my JA80s, and an SP-11 MkII with a JPL and then the JP80, and have heard most of ARC's current amplifiers and preamps, so I'll try to give you my thoughts. The ARC equipment is excellent, no question abou... | |
| Must -have SACD's There is a Lyrinx recording of the Beethoven 1st and 3rd Piano Concertos available on SACD which has extremely natural sound, particularly the piano (as does the Sony Classical disc of Periah playing the Bach Goldberg Variations, also a good disc)... | |
| Jadis Fidelity Odiomuse, as you can see from these posts, the cosmetics of the Jadis equipment are a not insignificant part of their appeal! I admit it too; I've been tempted by the similarly natural sound of the Lamm tubed amps, but I've resisted in part (other... | |
| "local" sacd's I'm sorry to say that, in the NYC area, the only place I've found carrying them is Tower, and their selection is pretty much limited to a few of the Sony discs, which they kept in the rock area next to the mini discs (oh, the irony), and the Delos... | |
| Jadis Fidelity Oh, by the way, Odiomuse, the JA100s really were designed to run with KT90 tubes; that's the tube for which their transformer was optimized. If you want to use EL34s, as I think you were saying, you might want to look for a used pair of JA80s, whi... | |
| Jadis Fidelity The above posts are all accurate. I've owned my pair of Jadis JA80s for about 9 years and my JP80 about 7 or 8, and I can say I've heard many pieces of equipment in my system both before and after buying them that will do one thing or another bett... | |
| Turntable innertubes: air, water, oil Alexc, it wasn't me that got the stuff, but I did see the bottle and it can't be more than 4-5 oz. My friend who has been doing these experiments thanks you for the sources on silicone. By the way, getting back to Tom's original thread, my friend ... | |
| Stylus Cleaners? I've been using something called Needle Nectar, and felt there was some improvement in the sound but wasn't really bowled over by huge improvements. While it looks like it does a good job cleaning the styus with a small magnifying glass, I certain... | |
| Snake oil and tweaks that work! Having heard them last week, the inner tubes under the components are a cheap tweak to isolate your equipment from vibrations and very beneficial, particularly for CDPs and tubed eqipment. Just play with the inflation level, you don't want to over... | |
| Cambridge Audio D500SE CD player Photon46's damping with sand on top of the CDP is also a good idea if you try the innertube support; you've isolated the unit from vibrations coming from its support, the bag on top mass damps the chasis vibrations. I'd hate to see what this all w... | |
| anyone with a 'system' near me? There are a number of audio societies and clubs out there--in NJ we have the New Jersey Audio Society, NY has The Audiophile Society, the Gotham Audio Society and probably more. Stereophile has some of them listed under their Industy Update column... |