redkiwi
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| Important Qualities Other than Sound My little quirk is that I cannot stand Maggies, visually, regardless of how they sound. They are just too imposing an object(s) to have sitting in the soundstage. Maggiphobic? | |
| 4ohm and 8ohm speakers? The issue of 4ohm versus 8ohm is too simplistic. For example, my valve amps really rock with some (but not all) of the 4ohm Thiels, and drive Martin Logans beautifully, but don't do much with the 8ohm Silverline Sonatina. If you just look at imped... | |
| Tube vs Solid State - Comparable Output? I understand the theoretical differences which suggest solid state should be better than tubes in the bass, and ditto for low impedence speakers. But, in one of my systems, the best amp for bass, and for the Martin Logans and Thiels they drive is ... | |
| Mismatched power tubes sound? I lack the words to describe it, but I have experienced the sound of mismatched tubes - one set drawing about 50% more current than the other. Despite biasing, the sound was "odd", less natural, perhaps "phasey" describes it. | |
| Inteligent high end cableing It was Gold Eclipse 2, and yes, short 8TC sounded more open. But the Wireworld cable has high capacitance and my experience with it could be amplifier dependent. At six inches, I heard none of the characteristics of 8TC that I usually do not like ... | |
| Inteligent high end cableing Emanse, I actually played around with various lengths of the cables I like (lots of time spent terminating cables). Even at lengths less than a meter, shorter still sounded better. So I tried 6 inches of 8TC (not my favourite cable), and it outper... | |
| Inteligent high end cableing Tm12 and Brulee are right on. The CST (Conicident) IC is amazing value, and better than everything that I have tried. HT is not even close. I tried the top of the line from a dozen name companies before the CST. I do not know about the speaker cab... | |
| Great Acoustic Guitar Recordings Joe Pass - unless you are allergic to real Jazz. | |
| Most overpriced audio component made What a lot of bull dust. If its all so over-priced why do you buy it? If you don't buy it, what's the problem? In the real world, an item is worth what someone is prepared to pay. If I make a product that has ready substitutes, then I have every r... | |
| Digital Interconnect The Optilink Pro 2 is very good, and if the AT&T is well executed will usually out-perform any coax in my experience. But, leaving the coax connected is potentially a bad move as you are leaving an earth link between the two. If you remove the... | |
| Will the HDCD format survive HDCD is a band-aid and sounds like it. Hope it disappears. | |
| Harmonic Technology Cables??? CST interconnects are the best in my system and so much cheaper than the other contenders. I did not get good results with either Nordost or Harmonic (inharmonic would describe them better). | |
| My Talk with Roger of XLO (power cords) I tend to agree with Sean that the original post is mumbo jumbo. By the way, I find the XLO cords sound quite good here in New Zealand where the power is 50Hz - I wonder why Roger exported to New Zealand if he really believed the issue was control... | |
| Optical or Coax digital I seem to be the odd one out and prefer AT&T optical. But, only if you use a very good optical cable - most of the industrial types sound awful, and the guage of the fibre needs to be right, and you need to use suitable termination aids like t... | |
| what isolation under tt,cd ? Cjs, I have both Vibrapods and Sinks. There is no comparison. The Sinks are light years better in a high res system. Both products subtract nasty sounding vibrations but replace it with some degree of muddiness. The Vibrapods add about 10 times as... |