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| Power Cable Shootout... Some good recommendations above. Some can be auditioned with a return privilege (TelWire for example).IMO, it's best to stick with brands that have strong demand so re-sale is easier. Shunyata, Purist Audio, Transparent, Cardas, Audience, JPS Labs... | |
| Power Cable Shootout... Let's say you buy two used cords that each sell for $1000. You spend $2000 for both. One you keep, the other you sell for what you paid. That's the benefit of buying used. The net cost is $1000 for the one you kept.Later, you can buy a third cord,... | |
| Power Cable Shootout... Cable shootouts are largely useless because everyone's system and ears and preferences are different.I suggest deciding what price level is comfortable for you, and then buying used cabling at that level. Listen. Compare. Keep what you like. Sell ... | |
| Ringo Starr or Charlie Watts??? The show was fraught with drama and emotion, as you can imagine.The second time I saw The Who that year, Pete put on a guitar clinic. It was amazing to watch and hear.The only previous time I had seen The Who was at their "Farewell Tour" in 1983 (... | |
| Ringo Starr or Charlie Watts??? "whos best" triggered a memory...Ringo's son, Zach Starkey, played drums with The Who when I saw them twice in 2002 (the first time was their first concert just days after John Entwistle died).Zach was excellent. | |
| Service my Belles Calling Dave gets the fastest response. In my experience, he usually answered the phone himself. Email is hit or miss.Perhaps he's on vacation? | |
| Tube amp for "difficult" speakers,,, It's not a question of having enough power to drive the Dynaudios to a proper level, it's a question of frequency balance. Since the Dynaudios dip to 5 ohms in the bass region, and have an 8 ohm nominal rating, I believe it's probable the bass wil... | |
| tt surface noise reduce or tolerate? Amen. | |
| tt surface noise reduce or tolerate? 06-23-08: DetlofOddly enough, if comparing this to the the original LPs drawn from the same sources, you hear no such thing, possibly because it is masked by surface noise, when playing the LP.That's my belief. Tape hiss being masked by surface no... | |
| tt surface noise reduce or tolerate? I would think that the surface noise should be no greater than tape hiss. If that means anything to you.Dan_ed (System | Threads | Answers)IMO, that's a very good analogy for someone familiar only with CDs. Plenty of CDs have tape hiss in the quie... | |
| tt surface noise reduce or tolerate? 06-23-08: Detlof...vinyl reproduction can be so quiet that Tvad would be quite surprised. I'm certain this is true. However, I maintain that the simple physical contact of a polished and sharpened gemstone on a vinyl surface makes it impossible fo... | |
| tt surface noise reduce or tolerate? Sometimes we forget that many of us were listening to vinyl for decades before the invention of CD, so we were accustomed to the normal surface noise of vinyl. Our expectations of what is possible regarding quiet vinyl are not the same as those of... | |
| tt surface noise reduce or tolerate? Few ever mention the inherent physical flaws of LPs: poor quality vinyl, bad pressings, or simply the physical nature of the reproduction method itself.No amount of cleaning will eliminate the noise inherent in the medium.It's a major factor behin... | |
| The BEST system you've ever built !!!! Edit...Technics SL1200 MK2. Can't ever keep the Technics models straight. | |
| Benz Micro M2 loading 06-23-08: PiedpiperI've also heard 25 times which puts it at about 600, but neither are necessarily so.Yes, I've heard that, too.I'm using 220ohm loading of the Heed Quasar (presently auditioning), and it sounds better to me than the 470 ohm optio... |