kitch29
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| Emmylou Harris, "Red Dirt Girl" When I first listened to "wrecking ball" I thought it was an overproduced curiosity and a shame because on the few more acoustic cuts her voice, phrasing and interpretations were first rate. Just as Garfish with the 'phones, now with the new cd pl... | |
| Most overpriced audio component made Your friendly neighborhood urologist lives in 3.5 million dollar house, drives a $70,000 car to the office which has $250,000 a copy test equipment. He spends $250,000 on a home theatre set-up because all his friends have and friends dealer recomm... | |
| Full range sound from sub 1k speakers Every now and then Meadowlark Kestrels are available on this site and others for under $1000. They are essentially 2-way monitors mounted on an integral stand that just happens to be a transmission line which yields wonderful, tuneful bass. | |
| Cambridge Audio D500SE CD player You know that label on top of the D500 SE Trelja referred to that says give it 36 hours to break in? Well it apparently has a 36 hour timer in it that automatically switches from a Fisher Price DAC that plays right out of the box to the 24/192. I ... | |
| Keeping cables off the floor PVC pipe is a static electricity generator, just run your hands along a length and you can pick up a charge. When used in a sawdust collection system, it has to be grounded along its entire length to prevent sparking as the dust moves along and th... | |
| Cambridge Audio D500SE CD player Miked- keeping in mind just 24 hours so far, I compare it to Audio Refinement Complete, which was similar but not nearly as dynamic and the combination of my Parasound 1000 and MBS DAC III which was even more laid back than the Parasound alone, al... | |
| Cambridge Audio D500SE CD player Received my d500 yesterday and ran it all night and all day, Mr. Tallyman. I suppose it's that 3/10's volt (output is 2.3 volts) but this player is far more dynamic than the Parasound 1000 it replaces. As did Trelja, I find the soundstaging very g... | |
| Sand bags under a cdp - didn't work well I posted elsewhere that the tube I tried did nothing at all but now I see from some other posts that it wasn't wide enough. Too much air, not enough squish? The urethane mat is still sounding good, you can get one anywhere that sells woodworking t... | |
| Snake oil and tweaks that work! Oops! Line two shoud read "electronic or mystical". | |
| Snake oil and tweaks that work! I've tried a lot of tweaks over the years, mostly back in my analogue days. I've decided there are two kinds, those which are electronic or physical and taken mostly on faith like cones or raising wires off the floor which usually cause a differen... | |
| Dave Brubeck-Take Five C'mon, Cornfedboy, it's called a "rhetorical question"! | |
| What about Meadowlark? When you consider that the Kestrels are available at less than $1000 used (I paid $700) and to my ear were more "musical" than the Vandersteens, Thiels and JMLabs I compared them against, I think anyone auditioning speakers up to $1500 has to take... | |
| Dave Brubeck-Take Five Unsquare Dance! Of course. Thanks guys. Now where can I get that cd re-issue? | |
| Cambridge D500SE ?? Careful reading of the D500SE blurb on the Audio Advisor site says the Crystal DAC was ORIGINALLY designed to play DVD's and SACD, therefore will "sound great with conventional audio CD's"; asssuming it will play SACD's is wishful thinking. | |
| Tonearm/Cartridge Upgrade Had an Eminent Technology model 2 air bearing arm back in the day with silicon damping. Magic with the VPI! Try Larry at Hollywood Sound (hwdsound)he's THE analog guy. |