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| Anyone know the Shahinian Diapason Ensemble???? After owning my Shahinian Hawk for two years, purchased from another Audiogon member, I looked into the upgrade myself. No small feat to undertake considering coast to coast shipping would be involved. With Vasken’s email responsiveness and assu... | |
| Cerious Technologies NEW Graphene Cables I’ve been running in a pair of the GE speaker cables and jumpers (excellent banana terminations, btw) with just over 100 hours in my system. Prior to that I purchased the GE digital cable from Bob and used it for several weeks. In my system, what ... | |
| Review: Tube Audio Design Hibachi Monoblocks TAD 125 Amplifier I am also the original owner of a pair of the Hibachi monos. Some time ago I posted my impressions in another thread but want to chime in here since I just purchased an upgraded pair of Hibachi H2SE (special edition) directly from Paul. I now own ... | |
| Audio Magic Liquid Air The Liquid Air cables have made a huge difference in my system. I have used two versions of Jerry's power cords in this line of cables: the base Liquid Air for my preamp and a new (I may be the first one to hear them) "high-current" Liquid Air pow... | |
| SS amp - which one ??? I just recently purchased and now enjoy the TAD-125, "Hibachi" mono block amps that I bought for the same reason (sub for tube amps). Paul Grzybek designed it specifically to pair with tube preamps. I just sub'ed for a 300B amp and could not be mo... | |
| Charles Hansen of Ayre saved my love for audio I share your enthusiasm about mitigating the effects of RFI generated by switching power supplies. Not long ago I discovered that use of laptops with plug in supplies were clearly detrimental to the pristine, extended, and shimmering quality of go... | |
| SPEAKER Cables for QUAD 2805's with VTL 225's mono Hi Blue_strat, you can't go wrong with SunnyBoy1956's suggestion. He's been tuning his Quads for several years and well ahead of my own experimentation. Since I've had the Quad 2805s in the last few months, I've played with a lot of speaker cables... | |
| dehavilland ultraverve preamp with ss amp Interesting thread and worth reading for the variety of opinions. However, my search for a wonder-full, honest to goodness tube preamp ended with the Ultraverve (modded with better caps) followed by lengthy auditioning of vintage 6SN7s. Matches wi... | |
| deHavilland UltraVerve Preamp Occasionally, you come across gear that changes your world. I had this experience after long seeking a tube preamp to compliment my system and living environment. I had been using a very capable SS preamp. The UltraVerve that I auditioned set the ... | |
| VenHaus Pulsar interconnects Just added a 1 meter Pulsar with NextGen RCA plugs from my cd player to preamp. The results bested my reference VdH Ultimate First - a very nice IC in its right, with great microdynamics and clarity of sound.The Pulsars brought their own qualities... | |
| DECWARE tube amp- Reciews? Experience? The Zen Select SV84 C-S that I bought recently exceeded my expectations. I completely agree with the perspective cited by Mstieb above. The amp works well with speakers rated 90dB or above with typical load impedances (lower than 8ohms). The sound... | |
| Decware Zen Monos I wish to use this forum to spread my good fortune to hear the Decware Zen Triode Select SE84 C-S amplifier. While not the monos, Decware claims the Select version uses all the same parts and equals the sonic quality. And what quality there is to ... | |
| Replace Van Den Hul First Ultimates with silver IC's ??? Fiddler, I use the VDH 1st Ultimates in my system too. I know what you mean about their ability to retrieve detail. However, they lack a bit of speed and transparency compared to silver cables. In my opinion the best of both worlds (the harmonic d... | |
| Combinations that exceeded your expectations? PI: No surprise that you received good advise (even better that you took it). I have found in many cases dealers work hard to carry equipment that works especially well together. It's when we get the itch to upgrade that things get sticky and frau... | |
| Massage therapist looking for stereo for office I'm glad to see the L-40 by NAD recommended here. I will say that in my system this one piece receiver/with cd player integrated is very musically satisfying--even relaxing. The sound is warm and somewhat laidback with my speakers. Have not hear i... |