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| Just changed component stands - how to modify soun What kind of cones have you tried? | |
| Dedicated 20 amp/ground loop question I likewise have 2 dedicated 20a lines in my reference room with 4 others throughout the hosue and no noise issues or loops.If you are building have them do a separate sub panel for the audio/vido lines throughout the house. | |
| totem arro's or B&W 604 s2's Totem.I prefer the top end and vocals from Totem to B&W. | |
| Mac with USB Dac I use both. In my opinion it is not a replacement, but another nice source to have. | |
| Thiel 3.7 Placement Try placing them 3ft into the room and 10ft from listening position as this will be ALMOST optimal. The 3 ft from each side wall is perfectly fine.Your dealer should be able to advise on this, maybe has you just wanted a second opinion.good luck -... | |
| Speaker recommendations Is your budget flexible?The qualities you are wishing for suggest to me a speaker around the $2000 mark, as opposed to the $1000 budget you outlined..... | |
| Isolation with levelling What about a cone which can adjust the level? The Stillpoints cones when used with risers are adjustable. | |
| Can you get "bookshelf sound" from a floorstander? You need to audition the Dynaudio Confidence C1. | |
| MIT AVT-MA vs. Magnum M3 speaker The AVT-MA conveys a bit more emotion than the Magnum M3.Magnum may be a bit more detailed.Both are exceptional cables. | |
| Tubes or S.S. for Thiel CS 2.4? Thiel actually was using an older Krell solid state at the factory when I was there about a year ago. | |
| Long Power Cord You could also consider a combination of the initial thought and the suggestion above.Buy some quality bulk wire and run it to an outlet near the projector. There are numerous conditioned/protected outlets now available from PS Audio and MIT which... | |
| Apple Macintosh Music System Apple computers will output 96k data through optical, and even higher res data through firewire.I use my Bel Canto dac3 (I am a dealer FYI) with toslink coming out of my iMac and get very good results.IF you had a dac with a firewire input I think... | |
| Do you spend more on audio than your income allows I started a business to justify it. It has been a very great way to enable the equipment expense, meet lots of great people and keep a reference system that I want and use for the business.Hopefully someday it will blossom into a full time day job! | |
| How much improvement with better toslink cable? Glass toslink make a huge improvement over regular in my opinion. I have detected almost zero difference between cheapo and branded non-glass toslink, but the upper end Audioquest and Wireworld supernova 5+ toslink will stand out far above the sta... | |
| Speaker placement: Any difference for cd or vinyl? should be one for all |