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| Most musical player or DAC? Tholt, what players have you owned (or presently own) besides the Musical Fidelity and PS-1.IMO, the glaring, non-musical, weak link in your system is the NuForce Ref 8. I have auditioned them, and to be blunt, they are about as a-musical as any a... | |
| So Much "Harshness" Leasrfool, in the case of the TT-PSU, plugging it into a conditioner would seem redundant.However, if your other electronics were plugged into the conditioner, and the TT-PSU was not, then the results might have been different.There are many condi... | |
| SS. Amp to go well with Aesthetix Calypso Preamp. I recall having read the Stereophile measurements as mentioned above.I cannot understand why Jim would state this:02-23-09: RussbJim at Aesthetix told me the Calypso will work with amps. that have a 10k input impedance or greater. | |
| Are contact treatments worth the money? I found a few sources for electrical grease. McMaster.com is one.However, I have not found a source for electrical grease that contains silver particles like Walker or Quicksilver. | |
| Are contact treatments worth the money? Gregm, can you provide a link or two to sources for industrial conductive grease?Thanks. | |
| SS. amp. for vandersteen 3A-signatures Steve McCormack uses Vandersteen 3A Signatures in his reference system, so Unsound's suggestion is excellent. | |
| Neighbor Complaining... IMO, placing them along the unshared wall will help, but I agree with Schipo that the neighbor is likely to still complain.Tough situation. | |
| So Much "Harshness" Power supply has a little bit to do with it as well, though I personally think this is the least of the reasons. In a recent experiment at home in my system, a power conditioner made only a very slight improvement to my CD player, and sounded abso... | |
| Please suggest good balanced Preamp The Aria WV5 Standard Line preamplifier is $6700. The OP is looking to spend $3500 or less. | |
| SS. Amp to go well with Aesthetix Calypso Preamp. Those are pretty good nominal output impedance specifications, but nominal output impedance can be misleading.Check the measurements section of the Stereophile review and see if Atkinson mentions significant rises in the output impedance into lowe... | |
| SS. Amp to go well with Aesthetix Calypso Preamp. If that's the case, then I can't think of any SS that wouldn't work.However, many tube preamps have relatively high output impedance specs that make them poor matches with anything below 20k, so while Jim says the Calypso will work with just about... | |
| SS. Amp to go well with Aesthetix Calypso Preamp. What's the output impedance specification of the Calypso? | |
| So Much "Harshness" I agree with the comments made above regarding harshness sometimes being the product of less-than-optimal recordings.The problem with high resolution systems is that all warts are exposed, whether the warts are in the system or on the recording.It... | |
| Researching the CD/HDCD Players from China 02-22-09: KijankiI think they cover torroids just in case or for the looks.The collective they, referring to all manufacturers who cover torroids is how I interpreted this comment. Therefore, by including all manufacturers in the collective "they"... | |
| Researching the CD/HDCD Players from China 02-22-09: KabirThey might sound good but they won't last long. I went through two Shanling SACD players in 2 1/2 years.You're not alone, Kabir.Several years ago, after reading a glowing review on 6Moons, I purchased a Shanling SCD-T200 SACD player... |