cd318
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| $27,500 for whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat??? @french_fries , "For me, the contradiction comes from their stating how well the present line performs, while they are already working on re-designing them at the factory for the next upgrade. The availability of "newer technology", or some new ca... | |
| My stereo receiver is a little too bright. Can a cable help me out? Sometimes 'brightness' in equipment will magically disappear when you use it with loudspeakers that have a fuller sound. It's also worth experimenting with speaker placement if that can help to restore the correct balance.Any system with a weak /c... | |
| Is it a good idea to buy CD players over 10 years old even it is a reliable brand? No. Definitely not.Why buy a used CD player when you can buy feature festooned reliable latest technology from companies like Marantz, Sony and Arcam for an awful lot less than $2-3k?Certainly not for sound quality either. CD players from the 80s ... | |
| Which to Upgrade first? My Amplifier or Speakers Better Magnepans seem to be the only worthwhile answer as you love your 3.6R's so much.Amp upgrade is is an irelevant hopeless money pit when you have 200wpc already, I'm afraid.It's your own fault for having such a decent system in the first place. | |
| Best speakers out there for Midrange and Highs @jmarshak,Nothing, apart from damaging volume levels, causes more distress to the reproduction of recorded sound than the stresses generated by the attempt to reproduce bass. Naturally enough these physical stresses increase in relation to the amo... | |
| The Biggest Upgrade Possible? @pkvintage, "Rich or poor keep searching to achieve those 10/10 happy scale moments. Happy is just plain happy. Period. It’s what we live for."Good advice, so so easy to forget. Memories are always important to sustain us as we go forward. It woul... | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance @douglas_schroeder , "But, the audiophile public once in a while needs to see that there are good people trying to serve them (And, of course, serving themselves by involvement with the gear; that's obvious) and are not duplicitous. :)"Agreed. T... | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance @douglas_schroeder , "Got bias?"If you meant me, then the answer is a definite yes! I do have a strong bias against fraudulent cable insinuations. (Let’s not call them claims - no manufacturer/seller would dare).The same way I presume that you hav... | |
| $27,500 for whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat??? @jon_5912, you've got me thinking now. Anyone living in the West who has travelled much must have inevitably encountered people living in such dire poverty that they would make the poorest of us here seem affluent in comparison.Against such a back... | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance I wonder whether only audiophiles are susceptible to Paranoid Cableitus?Would it be also possible to sell $1000+ RJ11/ethernet/router power cables too?Probably not as virtually everyone already understands that the actual broadband supply (and to ... | |
| High Efficiency Loudspeakers Wood cones are definitely worth exploring given there will inevitably be trade off between the usual gains and losses. Gains include slight increase in tonal density, losses include a slight loss of apparent speed.My JVC mini system sounds fabulou... | |
| Ken Ishiwata has passed away. Along with Harvey ’Gizmo’ Rosenberg Ken Ishiwata was my favourite audio guru. I’m not sure if either have any modern day counterparts.There’s a great tribute from David Price, who knew him well, posted here on stereonet.https://www.stereonet.co.uk... | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance @in_shore "There’s not much close to the confiscatory pricing of lengths of wire in this hobby except for perhaps streamers and server’s , basically computer parts in an attractive looking box.I love these threads and if I were in the audiophile b... | |
| Ken Ishiwata has passed away. That is sad news indeed. Condolences to all his loved ones.I still vividly remember seeing him at a show a few years ago. He wore a fantastic tunic top and looked more like an exotic magician than an audio salesman. His low voiced enthusiasm was i... | |
| Top Ten "Definitions of an Audiophile" @in_shore , “Audiophile’s”.... A group of people belonging to a niche hobby which whom many are easily manipulated into believing the more expensive said product’s are the better the performance."Easily done by continuously denigrating measurement... |