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| Cumulative Effects of Cables? There are some that disagree on this point, and believe that using interconnects is like adding spice to a dish ie. that it is OK to balance a "yin" cable with a "yang" cable elsewhere in the system. Others believe an interconnect cable should be ... | |
| Isolation vs. Absorbtion Plsl, I am still trying things, but like something light and rigid, not just because that is what I am trying right now, but discovered some time ago that the Theta worked better that way. I would want to keep trying things for another week or so ... | |
| Soundstage - Too much? I agree Sedond, I have experienced stable images 6 feet outside the speakers when I placed my speakers on the long wall giving me side walls that were 9 feet away from the speakers. | |
| Footers/Shelf Material Jadem6, I have two boards of 454mm * 354mm * 57mm (or approx 18.5" by 14.5" by 2.25" for the metrically challenged). To my knowledge they were cut from a large piece of Maple Butchers Block and are made up of glued pieces of Maple, not a solid blo... | |
| Isolation vs. Absorbtion Hi Sean. My view is that mass loading of components has pluses and minuses. I hold to my view that mass in general is a bad thing (for reasons both you and I have referred to above), but is a necessary evil in the pursuit of rigidity and damping. ... | |
| Upgrade Time Again.... please help Hi Rosebud. I never wanted to become a tube guy. But I got to the stage where I felt I had put together about as good a system as I could, but when I went to live events I was always gobsmacked by the fact that there was a kind of beauty to voices... | |
| Isolation vs. Absorbtion Not at all Sean, instead I am a bit embarrassed at your flattery. The general conclusions I have come to are not detailed enough to answer all of the questions you list - but nevertheless so far I believe: it is OK to use multiple structures sitti... | |
| Upgrade Time Again.... please help I cannot see how you are going to be happy with solid state after having had tubes Dan - once the thrill of the bass is over. Wolcott sounds ideal and a good match for your speakers. I have heard a good number of the solid state power amps you hav... | |
| If you could remaster three cd's... I second the "..Girl At Her Volcano" Retroguy. There are several albums I love but can only listen to on the car stereo where the recording nasties are irrelevant - one is "Miss America" by Mary Margaret O'Hara (I may have some part of that name w... | |
| If you had to make this decision.... I like the buffered version of the Placette - sounds more like a direct bypass than any other preamp I have tried. But being a good Kiwi, I have to point out that the new Plinius linestage preamp sounds great too. | |
| Rel Storm and Rel Strata III Hi Sugarbrie. I did try the Storm with the top-of-line XLO powercord - unfashionable today, but actually one of the more neutral sounding power cords, and the only one that I had spare that was long enough. I didn't get the chance to try the Storm... | |
| Isolation vs. Absorbtion I don't buy the mechanical diode idea as anything more than an analogy (and all analogies are inaccurate), and tend to agree with Mapleshade that for a cone to do its thing it would ideally have a point on both ends - hence the Mapleshade idea of ... | |
| Audiogon "RECORDINGS TO DIE FOR" list I think I really would die if I was only allowed 5 albums. Following are a few I would die for - chosen from a much longer list, mainly for their obscurity (rather than repeat the many others listed above that I agree with). David Sylvian "Secrets... | |
| Who is Most Beautiful female singer ever Sophie Zelmani gets my vote - great eponymous album by the way. | |
| Thiel 2.3--bright or harsh ? Hi Pops. I have Thiel 3.6 driven by the latest Plinius SA250 in one of my systems and they do sound great (and not at all bright - as you say. But the 2.3 is not in the same ball-park and tonally leaner IMO. I feel the Plinius is better than eithe... |