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| Cable auditions - Hard Work? Paul, power conditioning is a difficult animal to explain, and one which must be experienced, IMO. But for me, it made a tangible difference in the resolution of my equipment. Why? Because whether we identify it or not, we all have grunge and hash... | |
| Cable auditions - Hard Work? Oldpet, I deleted it in a moment of deciding whether I wanted to get involved.Bottom line: 1) your gear seems plenty resolving to me, 2) do you use any power conditioning?, 3) what is prompting you to want to audition cabling? | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? Thank you for the information, Eldragon. | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? My wife and I own a 2000 BMW 540i. Fabulous car, although service and repair is expensive, IMO. I've always lusted after a 2000-2003 BMW M5. | |
| Are we all destined to be "womenless" audiophiles? It'd be good for the Audiogon women to chime in here, but I'm guessing most women would find a man who sits in front of a stereo for hours on end to be fairly boring. I don't know too many men who enjoy the audio hobby, so I have an easy time unde... | |
| Biggest Baddest Audio Cables I interpreted Horsestoharleys' mention of the perceived advantage of Transparent and MIT cables to be entirely related to their use of network boxes, independent of the wire, insulation and connectors used in their construction. So, I suppose I do... | |
| Other than the SOUND, what do you love the most? Exactly. I'm working on a Gold Lion branding. If I can just figure out how to get my forearm in the right position... | |
| Other than the SOUND, what do you love the most? I like the good, visceral burn from touching a hot KT88. Gets one in touch with audio on a whole 'nother level. | |
| Name three of yours the most favourite drummers 1) John Bonham2) Neil Peart3) Too many to name...........OK, how about Phil Collins (listen to "Cinema Show" from Genesis' "Selling England by the Pound", and the entire "Livestock" CD from Brand X) | |
| Best player for Poorly Recorded redbook CDs? The RealityCheckCD process and NespaPro process both help reduce the edginess of poorly recorded CDs. However, for the same investment, one could probably buy a reasonable tubed CD player like a used Eastern Electric MiniMax CD player (or $1099 ne... | |
| Cable Break-in....again? Ray, I wasn't actually recommending you swap cords as a yuck. It'd have been like a blind test...an interesting experiment in the effects of positive suggestion. | |
| Cable Break-in....again? Ray, it would have been interesting to have heard his reaction after a few days if you had given him back his newly purchased cables while telling him they were your old ones.BTW, I lean toward the camp that believes in cable break/burn-in, howeve... | |
| What Speakers Do Audio Insiders Own? This system is owned by a professional trumpet player in a major philharmonic orchestra. | |
| Best player for Poorly Recorded redbook CDs? Kana813, you're right.I withdraw my suggestion. | |
| Best player for Poorly Recorded redbook CDs? Inexpensive copper interconnects can help, as Sugarbrie suggests.I'd like to offer two other options. My preferred option would be to make the source as good as possible and add a tubed preamp in the chain. Once you give up resolution in the sourc... |