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| sonic signature of Pure Note Paragon Question Brainwater,I went through a similar break-in process with Paragon interconnects. The first several days, they were hard to listen to. Very bright, almost harsh in the treble. After the first week, things got better, and the 'brightness' transforme... | |
| Pure Note Paragon users, comments apprecaited... Hi,I've been auditioning the Paragons for a few weeks now- given my particular system and tastes, I haven't found anything better, at any price. (I've tried...)To my ears, the Paragons aren't thin-sounding, bright, or bass-deficient. For now, they... | |
| Speaker cable upgrade please help........ Oops.For whatever reason, the Audiogon formatting system messes with the Hawksford Essex Echo paper url in the previous post. Here it is for cutting and pasting:www.essex.ac.uk/ese/research/audio_lab/malcolmspubdocs/G3%20HFN%20Essex_Echo_(cables_1... | |
| Speaker cable upgrade please help........ Hi Nick,Of your list, the only cable that I have passing acquaintance with is the Audio Magic Sorceror. As far as I can tell, it is the only ribbon-conductor cable on your list.Regardless of your other choices, I'd definitely recommend trying at l... | |
| Best Redbook player with XLR outs I'll second Hatfield's rec. of the Meridian 588. I've had one in a Rowland/Wilson Benesch system for several months now and have been very pleased. (The interconnects between the Meridian and the Rowland Concentra are balanced Kimber Select 1130s.... | |
| Wilson Benesch Curves Hi,Here are some Curves in a virtual system-WB CurvesThere are a couple of additional options that might be worth considering-1) Buy the new ACT used- there was a pair posted here not long ago with some minor cosmetic flaws- you'd get a huge disco... | |
| Rowland Concerto - Has anyone heard it yet Hi All,Great to hear that the Concerto is living up to its audiophile 'buzz' in your systems!I'm thinking of a Concerto as a long-term update to my current system, which is based around an original Rowland Concentra. It's not that I'm unhappy with... | |
| Cables for Rowland/B & W Hi Bryan,I have a Meridian 588 connected to a Rowland Concentra- not quite your system, but hopefully close enough to be a useful analogy. (Once it starts to show up on the used market, I'm hoping to try out the Rowland Concerto Integrated.)Best i... | |
| Wilson Benesch Hi Michael,I own a pair of Wilson Benesch ACT-Ones- they replaced a set of older Pro-Acs when I recently updated/upgraded my system.The comments above put it better than I could- they are amazing speakers. I've made comments re. their performance ... | |
| Good, Neutral, Reasonably Priced Cables? Hi All,Yet another bit o' information regarding ribbon cables- We've had some discussion of Alpha-Core and Magnan upthread. I didn't realize until recently that Audio Magic (the folks who also make the 'Stealth' power conditioners) manufacture sil... | |
| Good, Neutral, Reasonably Priced Cables? Oh, look. Everyone got together and worked things out. Very nice! A couple days ago, I was certain that some kind of 'everyone gets a timeout, and if you all play nice after that, maybe some milk and cookies too' post would be called for.Actually,... | |
| Good, Neutral, Reasonably Priced Cables? Alright Tvad, all-Overdue post re. cable distortion references- (life, or what passes for it, sometimes gets in the way of online chats...)Spent some time searching through the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI for short) databases. (If yo... | |
| Good, Neutral, Reasonably Priced Cables? And the learning fun just never stops...Rooze, FWIW, I've been using AG-2 biwires without the Zobels to connect a Rowland Concentra to Wilson-Benesch ACT-1s. No problems whatsoever. Given Sean's advice, I'm planning on installing the Zobels nevert... | |
| Good, Neutral, Reasonably Priced Cables? Since I missed the censorship thread, I don't have a point of comparison, but this thread has definitely been very informative and entertaining regardless.Anyways, more info for all on ribbon cables, subject du jour that they are-Magnan website 'w... | |
| Good, Neutral, Reasonably Priced Cables? Hi Tvad,I've got access to an extensive library of technical journals at work- I'll try to find some time (maybe friday afternoon) to see if there is a body of literature in them that might be relevant.I recall reading that participants in Audio E... |