rcprince
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| Opinions on Walker High Definition Links The man who designed my speakers was over one day and noticed the Walkers on my speakers and asked what they were for. When explained, he brought out his spectrum analyzer and we measured some white noise (I was only using them on the tweeters) th... | |
| digital output crackling When you say the signal was crackling, was this while a disc was playing or without a signal going through the DAC at the time? If the latter, it is normal to hear that digital crackling, at least with my DAC. Otherwise I'm not sure what the probl... | |
| Definition of Local Dealer I imagine it varies from manufacturer to manufacturer, as it is their requirement to protect their local dealers. In the NY tri-state area, the territories could be a lot smaller than in the midwest, too, due to the number of dealers in the area. ... | |
| help with a lush 50 watt+ amp Older CJ tube amps; also, in the higher priced vein, older model Jadis JA-80 or 30 monoblocks with EL-34 tubes would give you the sound you're looking for (don't take a modified one, though). If you're driving older Quads, the JA-80s are reputed t... | |
| Reliable valve suppliers on web For NOS, I go to Andy Bouwman of Vintage Tube Services (vintagetubeservices.com, I believe). Nobody tests them more thoroughly than Andy, nor knows more about the old tubes. | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music "The Call" from Vaughn-Williams' Five Mystical Songs. | |
| It's a year later... Tab110s: No idea of the price yet. Joe's bringing it over next week, likely. My guess is that it's half the price of the interconnects (1 vs. 2), which would make it $800 for one meter of Expression (Joe says that's their best RCA terminated one) ... | |
| It's a year later... I'm surprised I know the translation--the 24MXL is the current Audio Logic DAC; the Marigo 5.7 (which now has been surpassed, likely, by its 5.8 version) is a digital cable. I personally will be trying out the Kubala-Sosna in a week or two, but ha... | |
| Guitar player? , What model do you own or play? Guild F-212, circa 1969. | |
| Feedback search This one's easy. Under the seller's name in the ad there's a link called "View Feedback". Just click on that. | |
| Your listening chair With the ottoman, my bet is that the relaxation you get from propping your feet up will give you far more listening pleasure than any theoretical degradation of the sound from the ottoman. A recliner is a different matter, as it will lower your ea... | |
| What sounds more musical than audionote equipment Don't know how it compares to your Audio note system, but Jadis and Lamm equipment have the musicality you describe. | |
| sound sacd discs like dsd Cds? Listening to that particular SACD on my SACD player (a modified Sony SCD 777ES, with an Audio Logic output stage), on both the redbook CD and SACD layers, the redbook is pretty close, but falls a little short in terms of decay of instruments and s... | |
| thoughts on kimber select 2120 ? I've been using the single-ended version of this cable (2020) and the Purist Proteus as my digital cables for many years. I just sold the Purist, as I felt, after it broke in (which was a long time), the Kimber was just slightly better in overall ... | |
| What i/c to use and mix with NBS ? Well, I can add that when I first started the process of replacing the Omega with the Kubala-Sosna, I started with the speaker cables and all NBS in the chain, it worked very well; then replaced the Omega from the crossovers to the amps, then the ... |