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| VTL ST-150 vs... ? I moved from tubes to a W4S STI 1000 on a lark. It took several hundred hours of breakin to sound good. I had read that that was the case and it was. Anyway I really like it now and I have twice changed back to my previous tube amps and I could no... | |
| Rogue Audio Cronus .... reverse polarity ? When you change cables or even tighten them you are possably affecting the sound. If you intend to change things try cleaning the ends and connectors then restoring them AS IS. Now listen to them again BEFORE reversing or changing them to see that... | |
| Need a DAC recommendation I can second the P S Audio Dac III. I have one on a second system and think it is a great bang for the buck product. | |
| Cheapest way to ship large speakers? Freight. Pack the speakers individually. Get a correctly sized pallet and strap them down laying side by side with extra layers of protection to reduce the chance of a fork lift damaging them. I had some speakers shipped to me that were about as y... | |
| RE: Ethernet Cable /Patch Cable ...Any Difference? Cat 6 has a one guage larger copper conductors than Cat 5. The plugs are also usually more robust. The 4 twisted pairs are seperated by a round or x shaped spacer(for x-talk)to keep the pairs spaced differently than Cat 5. The external sheath is u... | |
| Does High End In Wall Speaker Wire Exist? If you install a conduit such as Fiber Optic Innerduct in your walls you can run whatever you want point to point as long as you install a large size say 1" or larger. Keep your bends smooth and gradule and you can install or change wire in the fu... | |
| music servers for bad eyes I have Mac Mini with I Tunes going through HDMI(1080P) to a 50" plasma and the video is really large and clear. The scrolling of album cover art and the titles, songs names and other information is very cool. Hope this helps. | |
| Wyred amps and Merlin VSM-MXe speakers Use the HT bypass feature on the wyred integrated and you by-pass the built in pre-amp all together. You can use any pre-amp you wish with the amp section only to evaluate your problem. | |
| Tube Monoblocks for heavy music on Khorns I have k-horns and use a JJ integrated parallel single ended 300B amp. The best yet for me, BUT I also have a stereo Jadis Defy 7 at 100 watts with 6 6550's per chanel. On ROCK the Jadis really shines with little loss due to the higher volumes I a... | |
| upgrading inductor Changing the gauge higher or lower will change the resistance. What is your goal?Mark | |
| Anyone try stuffing their ports? Years ago I read of someone using plastic straws bundeled and inserted into the port. This seams like an interesting middle road to try. I assume that the straws were cut to the same legnth as the port tube. | |
| Audiophiles are older than dirt I scored 100% correct. I think the Dual turntable model number is 1219???? Do I need help??? | |
| Does the quality of a digital signal matter? CD's are not 0s and 1s. They are pits burnt into the metal layer and are measured for lenght by the lazer and then converted into a digital format. Then they are run through a Digital to Analog converter. | |
| Ribbon speakers Aurum Cantus | |
| McIntosh MA7000 or MC252? I am not sure but I seem to remember that the MA7000 has the output autoformers and the MC252 may not. This seems to be a love them or hate them topic in past discussion topics.Tubeking |