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Wood racks and humidity
Hi Conlad -May be too late to the party, but I have several, if not most of the racks/shelves mentioned already here and feel the need to comment:The Symposium Acoustics Segue shelves and newer Foundations Ultra Top 4 shelf rack I now have (5 mont... 
Upgrading Fuses
Gbmcleod -I somehow just happened upon your post of 12-30-11. Your experience is almost word for word what mine has been going from the stock fuse to a HiFi Tuning Supreme fuse with my Simaudio 600i amp., solid state no less. The change was immedi... 
Shunyata CX Python Speaker Cables
Over the last week or so I had taken out the MMG (planar) speakers in my system and used only my Dynaudio Focus 140s to compare the Python speaker cables with the Kimber 8TCs. The Pythons "sound" broken in. My initial findings of only noted small ... 
Shunyata Power Conditioner advice
Mwheelerk,I have a Hydra 4, FWIW. To answer your question(s), as I understand it from users of more than one Shunyata conditioner the idea is to separate the analog from the digital equipment. Your set up sounds close but still mixes amp./sub. (as... 
Shunyata CX Python Speaker Cables
Vhiner, I am thinking this new addition of the Shunyata Python SCs may be one of those changes that is heard over the long term vs. short term A/B testing. And I will check the connections as I am unfamiliar with the bananas such as these have. Th... 
Shunyata CX Python Speaker Cables
Gbmcleod: Last week Santa brought a pair of Python speaker cables (said to be demos). My only frame of reference is with my long term (5 years or so) Kimber 8TC (newest version with WBT term's). With my set up I was somewhat surprised there was no... 
The best CD Player for the money
I have had the Rotel RCD 1072 (MSRP $700) and a NAD T585 (uni. player)($1199). The Rotel never gave me any trouble. The rather new (to me) NAD has trouble with hybrid SACDs now (read errors), but plays CDs fine. After living with both for some tim... 
Sony XA7ES vrs Cambridge 840C and others...
I have had the 840c since the week after the TAS review.It replaced the Rotel RCD-1072 I had at that time. I have no experience with Jolida or the Sony. The 840c is superior in every respect, even with HDCDs, vs. the Rotel. Additionally, I had twe...