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| Does Anyone Know What is Up with High Fidelity Cables? Thanks for the responses so far. I am not necessarily that concerned about the long lead times as it seems nearly everyone has them these days with the possible exception of Amazon who has their own delivery system. For me the biggest issue as s... | |
| Does Anyone Know What is Up with High Fidelity Cables? Yes, I agree that the holdup is non-beneficial to HFC but mostly on the backs of their customers. After all, they have the use of our money since we paid when placing orders. I just wonder why they held a big sale if they had not yet achieved a ... | |
| Does Anyone Know What is Up with High Fidelity Cables? This is the reason I am posting. I have been contacting them for months now and all I get is excuses and a new delivery date that is never met. I just thought someone might have some insight into this rather unusual situation. Thanks. | |
| Quack System Upgrades Funny that this subject comes up from time to time. Having an advanced engineering degree, many of these tweaks fail the smell test, wreak of alchemy, and cause my internal BS meter to peg and flash wildly. Many of them seem designed to separate... | |
| GARY BEDINI and JOHN BEDINI have passed on 11-6-16 Wow, very unusual. I once had a Bedini BA-803 power amp, a monster. Sad to hear of their passing. | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Ralph, Erik, thank you for the detailed explanation of how electrostatic speakers work with different types of amps. A nice education. | |
| Favorite guitar players not named...... I would add Jim Stafford to the list.Also recently saw a perhaps lesser-known but hugely talented touring guitarist named Ed Berghoff in a backyard venue. He could play everything from Hendrix to Lindsay Buckingham. Very impressed. Check him ou... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Yes, I also agree with atmasphere as I once had some Wilson Sophia speakers, 4 ohms nominal impedance, and a pair of Fourier Panthere OTL amps whose output impedance was around an ohm or so. Adding a pair of autoformers made a huge difference in ... | |
| MBL omnidirectional speakers. How do they sound ? Heard them several times at the Newport Beach Audio Show.The smaller 116s in a small room were nothing remarkable.The 101s, however, are perhaps the best-sounding speaker I have ever heard by a long shot. They were set up in a double hotel room, ... | |
| Tube for a Noob ??? I agree with the others that if you are not committed to vinyl, I would stick with either CD's or digital downloads and get some tubes in there somewhere. To make vinyl really effective you need a decent turntable/arm/cartridge combination, vibra... | |
| If I'm looking for "Tube Sound", why would I put a Tube Pre in front of a SS amp? Another rationale for using a tubed preamp is that tubes work better than solid-state in amplifying voltages since tubes work at hundreds of volts while SS works at tens of volts. Solid-state work better at amplifying current since they have much... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz I use HFC Ultimate Reference cables from my turntable to my phono stage since my turntable has DIN-to-RCA connectors and my Steelhead phono stage has RCA inputs. Rick Schultz told me early on that all of the cables are of identical build (at any ... | |
| Dark Side of the Moon - Is MFSL really all that? Never liked the MFSL versions, particularly the UHQR. Too compressed, thin, and lightweight. I like the original UK and German pressings. I have also tried a number of reissues and don't like them either.Found this in Wikipedia: An obi (帯?) is... | |
| Will changing gain affect frequency response? In addition to how changing the gain of a preamp can change sound due to nonlinearity of the gain control, another thing to consider is where you achieve the gain. For instance, I can change the gain on my phono preamp as well as on my main pream... | |
| LP: Left Channel Drops In and Out I saw on Audioasylum Vinyl Asylum that someone else noticed this problem. Surprising that WB never found it. Since the recording was in 1990 at the end of the vinyl heyday, I seriously doubt that more than one mastering or pressing was done of t... |