fcrowder
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| AMR / EMM / PLAYBACK Designs I cannot speak to use of the EMM Labs XDS1 as anything other than a player, but in that mode EMM Labs has been extremely successful in addressing earlier criticisms. The transport mechanism which is sourced from Esoteric works flawlessly and the t... | |
| AMR / EMM / PLAYBACK Designs Let me again stress that the sound of the unit is much impacted by the choice of power cord. I have tried a number of cords with which I have had success in the past, including the Stage III Zyklops. With most of these cords, the mids were a bit l... | |
| AMR / EMM / PLAYBACK Designs The XDS1 has been in contitnuous play since Friday morning but will still require many additional hours of breakin. Given the new rather brute force power supply, you might think that power cords would make little difference. You would be incorrec... | |
| AMR / EMM / PLAYBACK Designs The XDS1 arrived yesterday while I was at work and will see some heavy playing this weekend. Initial thoughts will follow the weekend. | |
| IsoClean Focus SC-101 and SuperFocus speaker cable That would be a good rule of thumb. | |
| IsoClean Focus SC-101 and SuperFocus speaker cable I have owned both. They are excellent, particularly the SuperFocus and can generally be found at very attractive prices on the used market. I would note that both are warm and full with significant bloom and both have somewhat truncated top ends. | |
| AMR / EMM / PLAYBACK Designs Jason,If you read my review of the Playback Designs at www.Dagogo.com you will have noted that I sold my existing Esoteric X01-D2 after many years of enjoyment and am currently borrowing a CDSA from a good friend. This has given me a golden opport... | |
| AMR / EMM / PLAYBACK Designs For what it is worth, I am out of the country but EMM Labs has shipped an XDS1 for review. I will certainly comment after I have had the chance to break the unit in. | |
| Best Power Cord for Phono Stage They can build anything which you want. | |
| AMR / EMM / PLAYBACK Designs Just a correction, I am the Dagogo reviewer who reviewed the Playback Designs. I did not purchase the unit. I returned it to the manufacturer with all shipping charges paid by me. The manufacturer in question was a perfect gentleman and put absolu... | |
| Stand out phono stages The real problem with athread like this is that other than a Michael fremer, most of us will never hear anywhere near the full range of phonostages available and the number that we will hear in our own systems is even fewer. Add to this the rarety... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? My Rockport TT replaced a Goldmund Reference with a T3F tonearm in which I had used a Clearaudio cartridge. Given that the T3F had destroyed, at least one Clearaudio due to lateral deflection, I was concerned that the Rockport arm might have the s... | |
| Best Power Cord for Phono Stage Even with a well designed phonostage with an outboard power supply, the power cord which you use can have a rather dramatic impact on the sound. Two cords which sound very different but each of which is superb are the Bybee Millenium and the Jorma... | |
| Stand out phono stages I hate to sound as if I am pounding the same old drum, but the Einstein phonostage is silly good and shows up on Audiogon used for a really low price. It comes with a varirty of loading resistors and can be improved by using HiFi Tuning fuses and ... | |
| Continuum Caliburn - really the best TT on earth? I have tried to track through some of your prior posts to determine your basis for this statement and I must admit that the answer has eluded me. Could you enlighten me?Thanks. |