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| My Favorite Tweaks, What is yours? All of you got me thinking about this and I had to make a list because it shocked me how many I have in my system. When you run out of the big buck pieces I guess the tweaks have been the gravy on the potatoes. Some are serious, some are for fun. ... | |
| Tube Amp for Coda 8 Part 2 KDS, you have a great amp so be sure to add a commensurate pre, IMO tubed, to match up with it. Keep that system at a high level and it will reward you. Then later we can talk cables (!). | |
| Tube Amp for Coda 8 Part 2 @kds Great question. I have owned a few nice preamps in the last 10 years: Pass Labs XP12 - very nice unit. It was quiet and was everything you’d expect from Pass Aric Audio Motherlode - sound was okay, but as a single ended unit is was too noi... | |
| ??? WHY WHY WHY ??? Class A vs Everything Else After I tasted class A years ago I tried some class D to see if they could compete. Class A for me until I am forced into a different situation. Never say never, but as others have stated, so many Class A amps today don’t really get excessively ho... | |
| Tube Amp for Coda 8 Part 2 @kds I have an M1 and Coda 8. Going direct gets sort of dry and flat. So I always use a tubed preamp for musicality. | |
| Experience with Simaudio Moon North amps So, the Moon 400M's are not in the same ballpark then? A step down perhaps. | |
| Tube Pre-amp Suggestions. @kds Using ARC Ref5SE and before that had an Aric Audio Motherlode for a brief run. I have also thought about going back to Class D amps and just considering PS Audio 1200's. For fun. I'd probably get new speakers before giving up the Coda. The A... | |
| Need help with Aurender N20 Serious choice. Good on you!! | |
| Bass Traps Get those traps into the corners. As others have pointed out, you have shifted the response of the room now. It would help you to run REW and dial in your room using the graphical results. I made a run once with REW moving the traps inside the fr... | |
| Flatscreen between speakers How about some 1 inch thick panels and hang them right on the TV itself? Even foam will help some in a pinch. One inch OC 703 would be great but not sure you can get one inch. Some vinyl or rubber covered hooks and you're in business. Heavy cardb... | |
| Flatscreen between speakers https://www.audiogon.com/systems/10635#&gid=1&pid=3 Roll-away panels, in TN I put wheels on them. In KY, I used barn door rods and rollers to cover the windows: https://www.audiogon.com/systems/8615#&gid=1&pid=1 | |
| Article: "Do Blind Listening Tests Work? My Sessions with the Colorado Audio Society" Good topic. Aren't we all automatically biased by what our system sounds like when we listen to other systems? Don't we automatically compare the two in our heads? I think enough of us have been to shows and gone into megabuck rooms and were very... | |
| Cable Quest @rrboogie I had a Platinum power cable. It was 13 feet. I recall being disappointed with it. Perhaps I was expecting it to jump up and bite me. So, I sold it off. I was more impressed with the Synergistic power cables and own several now. I found ... | |
| Audio Research Ref 6 power cord I tried Synergistic, BMI, Cardas, Elrod, JPS, KS Emotion, Masterbuilt, and Hijiri on my Ref 5SE. The BMI was very good (Whale Elite out of production) but the Hijiri Nagomi was the best match. It brought out all the musicality the pre is capable o... | |
| Cable Quest https://www.audiogon.com/systems/10635#&gid=1&pid=41 I arrived at an inflection point about 3 years ago when I realized my hardware was very good but I could not seem to get the sound to equate to their level. So sure, I've been into 2 ch... |