gbmcleod
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| Nordost Heimdall 2 or Tyr 2 digital cables @akg_ca I have to input my experience regarding Valhalla and Tyr. As someone who has Tyr 2, and Valhalla 1, I find the Tyr 2 to be quite good, and quite a jump over the Frey 2, which I had for many years. And not nearly as "thin-sounding" as Va... | |
| Need Opinions for Different Cable Manufacturers/Cable Designs Well, I have Shunyata, Nordost and Transparent cables. Of those, the Shunyata has the lowest noise floor (so that I can hear the subway moving underneath the concert hall on The Nutracker Suite (Mercury Living Presence). All the cables reproduce t... | |
| What % Of Your System Are Your Cables? I am with Steakster and dougthebiker. My system is approximately 35% of total cost. As for cables having "no effect," well, the myth is more accurately the belief that they DON’T have any effect. Of course they do. Anyone with considerable experi... | |
| Solid State Preamp to replace tube unit @ambrusso Keep in mind that tubes have a great sense of dimensionality, and solid state will not have that to anywhere near that degree, although you may have more "solid’ bass with solid state. I have an NAD C399 (Class D) and I like it, but I f... | |
| Why isn’t more detail always better? @mapman "Bloom" is something mostly heard in live music, and rarely in reproduced (recorded) music (and the systems most of us have). It is when the harmonics (overtones) of an instrument (or an orchestra) spread outwards in space, the way it d... | |
| Goldmund Studio I had a Goldmund Studio back in 1986. It was the most accurate of turntables back then. Not locked in in the bass the way the SOTA Star Sapphire was, or weak in the bass as the Oracle turntables. It was astoundingly open and dynamic at all frequen... | |
| Please talk me out of buying the Avalon Eclipse Yes, truly HORRIBLE!!! | |
| ???What's The LEAST Expensive "End Game"Amplifier You've Ever Heard??? Well, I could be part of the "no such thing" group, but, having been a part of the state-of-the-art club back in the late, late, late 20th century (it sounds very odd to type that, as though it was waaaayyyy back in ’The Dinosaur Age’!!), I’ve fou... | |
| Apogee Calipers worth anything If you can get it repaired, it's a good speaker. I had them back in 1985 - before I got WATTS. But for parts?? I dunno. | |
| Please talk me out of buying the Avalon Eclipse @celo The Avalon Eclipse is a splendid speaker. And it has one trait, almost NO other speaker has (I owned it back in the 1990s, along with the Ascents) and that is, a vanishingly low "grain." With the right amp, the view into the soundstage wil... | |
| Do your ears deceive you? Yes, and I noticed that the violinmaker in your article - who was part of the research team that administered the test - was very surprised they couldn’t identify what they were playing. I’m guessing that Henryk Szeryng could identify them, since... | |
| Front Row Seat Power Cord? If you got a "front row power cord" (I’m not sure what that is), but your electronics and speaker are "mid-hall" perspective, you’re not suddenly going to feel like you’re in the front row). It will be mildly closer. And perhaps not noticeable. M... | |
| Magnepan LRS+ resistors on the tweeters… which? @audiofilo123 It appears this is part of the design. https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/magnepan-lrs/ | |
| Shunyata Delta or Alpha V2 NR vs. AQ Hurricane HC Good thread! | |
| Nordost Valhalla RCA vs. Wireworld Platinum Eclips @gganaway I agree with your assessment of the Valhalla completely. I had Valhalla at one point, and I noticed the same thing. |