rsbeck

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Silver vs. Cooper speakers cables
It is true that gold will not corrode like copper. Gold has more resistance, so you have to use a thicker gauge of solid gold to get the same resistance as copper. If you take care of copper cables, seal the connections well, clean them from time ... 
Best Complete HomeTheater USED for $5000.00
>>The gains in two channel sound quality become very small in real terms<<Wow -- we are definitely not going to see eye to eye.I have way more than $5,000 tied up in my two channel system and had exponentially more than that wrapped up... 
Silver vs. Cooper speakers cables
Aluminum, on the other hand, makes excellent siding. 
Silver vs. Cooper speakers cables
Gold has the benefit of being way more expensive than copper. 
Best Complete HomeTheater USED for $5000.00
>>a QUALITY 2 channel setup is much better than 5 or more channels of mediocrity, ANY DAY!!<<Right on. Also, just want to reiterate -- if you go to a 5 or 7 channel system for movies, most of the sound, a lot of the time, will be comin... 
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I would think long and hard about adding multi-channel. I, too, am a confirmed two channel guy. I set up an ultimate two channel music and multi-channel HT in one system. But, I found that very few films even use rear surrounds and the ones that d... 
Most "Ruthlessly Revealing" Speakers. Your opinion
Some of the most resolving, coherent, natural sounding speakers I've heard:Avalon EidolonJoseph Audio PearlsEggleston SavoyAerial Acoustics 20THaving heard the Watt/Puppy 7's, I can only imagine how resolving the Alexandrias must be.Same with the ... 
Silver vs. Cooper speakers cables
I feel that not enough attention is paid to aluminum. 
Is Preamp overkill for me?
Check this out ---http://www.placetteaudio.com/remote_control.htm 
New speakers and excessive midrange
This could be a break in issue, but there may be other things involved;First, these are bookshelf speakers so they will be limited in bass response. Their web-site rates these speakers' response as 50Hz to 20Khz, but they don't give any informatio... 
Mackie HR824
Your decapo's are rated +/- 3 db 44Hz to 20Khz. I don't know where you got the idea that your speakers have some exotic frequency response curve based on psychoacoustics. The frequency response doesn't bear this out and there is no reference to su... 
Music from hard drive better than CD?
>>Rsbeck: Do you run the Apogee mini Dac into a pre-amp or straing into a set of powered monitors?<<I run it straight into powered monitors. There is no need for a pre-amp. This is one of the things I like about this set-up. The Apogee... 
Mackie HR824
The first three high end speakers I looked at contradict what you're claiming.Here are six more ---Aerial Acoustics 20T Price $18,000++/- 2db 28 Hz to 30 kHz Vandersteen 5A Price $15,000++/- 1.5 db 20Hz to 30 kHzThiel CS 7.2 Price; $15,000++/- 1.5... 
Silver vs. Cooper speakers cables
You know, if you look carefully, this thread asks us to compare silver versus "cooper." So, in the interest of accuracy, I a/b'd a silver cable, which sounded good, but a little bright against cooper. While blindfolded, I asked an assitant to conn... 
Silver vs. Cooper speakers cables
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