kaipau
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| Musical Fidelity Very much a latecomer to this thread. Yes. I have an M5 CD rated as one of the best $3,000 CDP's ever made and an M5 500i integrated amp. The CDP is 18 years old with a valve output stage still going very strong and the amp is just staggering. It... | |
| Power Cable for CDP So- I went for the the Neotech Nep‑3003 iii shielded silver plated, UP OCC copper and mated it to IeGO silver plated IEC/Schuko. Did I achieve what I wanted? Yes. Did I get more than I bargained for? Yes. Glare. Still barely 10 hours on it but ... | |
| Power Cable for CDP 'Shunyata Research’s exclusive NR (Noise Reduction) technology is a multi-stage filter network' The only filter I put near my kit are DC blockers. I took every other filter out because they squash dynamics. The Shunyata also uses brass connectors... | |
| Musical Fidelity A5 CD player - long Having been adding "tweaks" to my system for a few years now, I am thinking source upgrade to get night/day improvements in sound. As the owner of an A5 CD, I figure the next outlay will be in the 10-12k region to beat the A5. Every review of th... | |
| Power Cable for CDP @soix- thats a good question. More transparency really. Presently there is terrific pace, slam, detail the lot but served up with with lots of "weight". On the IC side, I have pure silver IC’s terminated with pure silver RCA’s so the weight isnt c... | |
| Speaker Cable Recomendations Are you making cables or buying off the shelf? I had never made a cable up to 2 years ago, and wont look back now. You can make a €300-€500 RCA cable that will thrash an €800-€1,500 off the shelf with minimum soldering skills. Speaker cable wise,... | |
| Solid copper or stranded copper for speaker cables? What is your choice and why? Solid. I came by a very old run of Audioquest F something solid core a long time ago and couldn't figure out why new stranded cables didn't produce the same sound that I liked. I eventually bought a run of solid core Neotech cables and went "oh, ... |