redkiwi
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| Are you Guys Rich or What!? I have an agreement with my wife that my music hobby can cost as much as we spend on a car. Given she has a passion for Alfas, that gives me a reasonable budget, but I am always suggesting she upgrades from time to time. If you are serious about t... | |
| Upsampling/Advice on Transport Transports make a musically significant difference and can be heard through any upsampler/jitter reducer I have ever heard - same for the cable running into it. That Parasound transport sounds smooth and congealed - cannot understand why anybody w... | |
| AC regeneration and power conditioners I really distrust that word "perfect" - how many times do we have to be fooled by the marketers? | |
| Your Best Hobbies (other than Audio) Coffee, Wine, Beer, Fine foods, Cooking (mainly breads and curries), Sport. | |
| Footers/Shelf Material To add to my previous point - ie. improving versus merely changing the sound. I perceive a problem in this vibration control area in that most of the products on the market are designed to the wrong criteria. Instead of trying to be heard less, th... | |
| Turntable innertubes: air, water, oil Tom_nice - I could be wrong, but it is possible you are going round in a circle. Using air bladders at first comes like a breath of fresh air because the peakiness of structure-borne resonances is removed. But on the other hand, the sharpness of t... | |
| Long interconnects or speaker cables? With long ICs you tend to pick up more grain than with short ICs, less so with balanced ICs. With long speaker cables you tend to lose immediacy and soundstage size compared with short speaker cables. You will also hear more of the speaker cable's... | |
| Footers/Shelf Material Hi Ken and all. To answer your question Ken, I am trying the various shelves and footers with three different systems and am trying to progress by following the path that sounds good with all three systems. This way, I am hoping I don't go down so... | |
| What time do you wear? I like a very light watch and have three that suit my tastes. A solid gold Raymond Weill, a Raymond Weill Othello (the really thin black one - a joy to wear), and a gold Breil. I find the Rolex just too heavy, particularly visually. | |
| Footers/Shelf Material Dekay, "the parts connection" can be found at www.sonicfrontiers.com/tpc/. There are lots of goodies there, albeit not necessarily at the best price. Download their entire catalogue and have a look through it. The E-A-R feet are in there somewhere... | |
| speaker cable, stand help for Totem sig. Target R1 or similar are the way to go. Anything less beefy will not anchor the small Totems well enough for them to be coherent from the upper bass on down. | |
| How should I bi-wire my ML sl3 For reasons I don't understand, double runs of 8TC sound better only with powerful (>100W) solid state amps. Otherwise single bi-wire run is better in my experience. | |
| Love of MUSIC or love of GEAR I have known some "gear heads", but usually they fall into two categories. Category A - the big noter - likes to tell people the brand of the gear he (rarely if ever a she) owns, even if it is in a box in the garage. Category B - the simplistic ty... | |
| Soul Recommendations Hi Jayboard. I have been chasing down most of the suggestions here and have picked up 8 or 9 CDs with more on order. Thanks to you and everyone else here! Now Baby Huey was just a suggestion from my favourite CD shop when they saw what I was buyin... | |
| Is CES worth the trip? If you read the Burn-in thread you will realise that going to CES is a waste of time. Every room you go into will sound awful because your brain takes a week or so to be burnt-in to the unfamiliar sound. Just kidding, but some people seem to belie... |