eugene81
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| Tannoy Turnberry SE Imaging and Breaking In Thanks for your replies.48 hours later: BIG improvement in imaging and even more so in soundstage! Everything is well-placed in orchestra - this may now be the most impressive type of music given the huge scale and dynamics these speakers produce.... | |
| Pass Labs XP10 or Wyred 4 Sound STP-SE For me, the W4S did not sound thin at all. On the contrary, images were quite dense and saturated, maybe even more so than my Conrad Johnson CT-5 (though not as delicate or refined). This is exactly the reason it replaced my Placette Passive while... | |
| BADA DAC 1 Connection Question AFAIK you can't go unbalanced -> balanced with a simple adapter, so one of the three transports would have to have a balanced output.Short of changing your components, you could connect your TV to the BADA via TOSlink and connect the Oppo and t... | |
| Class A amplifiers - which are considered the best Pass XA gets so much overwhelming love here I will give my +1 to Luxman. I replaced a Pass XA-30.5 with a Luxman M-600a and haven't looked back. Similar, but better all around for me. Like the sound, the build quality and craftsmanship is also mor... | |
| Conrad Johnson ET2 - ANYBODY? Oh well, I bought a CT5 anyway. :) Still interested to know more about this ET2, though. Someday... | |
| Conrad Johnson ET2 - ANYBODY? Bump... | |
| Ungrounded power cord: Will I die? Can you tie a floating chassis to a grounded chassis with a speaker wire? | |
| BPT 3.5, Audience aR12, or Equitech 1.5Q? Bigshutterbug, that's a good point. The Audience units come with a powerChord e, which is my cord of choice and used elsewhere in my system. It would be great to hear from somebody who has used an aR6 or aR12 and one of the balanced power units.Ra... | |
| BPT 3.5, Audience aR12, or Equitech 1.5Q? Thanks for the input.OK, maybe not *completely* ignored. I've installed a Porter Port outlet (big gains) and 2 Blue Circle BC 86 MKIII filters (less so). I'm hoping a more sophisticated conditioner will provide huge improvements given the cost. I'... | |
| Integrated Amp That Does it All?... Wyred 4 Sound mINT or Bel Canto C5i would be the closest thing except they don't have XLR inputs. You could use S/PDIF, TOSlink, or RCA for your Oppo. Since you like the Bel Canto DAC 2.5 maybe the DAC in the C5i would be more to your liking, but ... | |
| Ungrounded power cord: Will I die? Inna, not sure how you interpreted my post that way, but I am definitely not asking for advice on how to get electrocuted!I think I'll take my chances on using the Luxman cord with the DAC. I will probably upgrade in the next year or two anyway. I... | |
| Ungrounded power cord: Will I die? I guess even if the amp is safe to use with an ungrounded cord, they might put a 3-prong inlet for use with all of the other aftermarket power cords out there.So the moral of the story is: It depends on the device. Stick to what it came with. | |
| Ungrounded power cord: Will I die? "If it came with a three prong plug then safety standards dictate it should be there"OK, so since my amp came with a two prong plug it should be safe to use with the amp even though the amp has a 3 prong inlet? | |
| Paradigm S8 vs. Sonus Faber Cremona M "I have heard of Krell, Ayre and Bryston, is that what I should be looking for?"Those brands offer very different types of sound, especially Ayre compared with the other 2. What kind of sound do you like? The warm, lush, silky, romantic? Or the co... | |
| Frustrated with the sound of my system Having had the MSB Link III, Kimber 8TC, and Kimber Silver Streak, these components can definitely sound strident and hard. I highly recommend a tube DAC -- MHDT Paradisea is a GREAT choice for offering warm, natural, relaxed sound at < $400 us... |