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    Spatial Audio M3 Sapphires

    Well, I still own the Sapphire M3s by Spatial Audio Clayton Shaw and They even sound better than my last post. I updated my room acoustics and they took another jump. These remain some of the best speakers I've owned and heard over 40 years in this hobby, while no speaker is perfect what they...
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    Eliminating Noise on my AC line - need assistance

    These work superbly and have no audiophile prices. Blocks any outside noise from wifi Bluetooth etc. Buy on Amazon. Monarch Abode 17018 Single Switch Hand Hammered Duplex Decorative Wall Plate Switch Plate Outlet Cover, 1-Gang, Pure Copper. Everyone who's tried them has had nothing but good to...
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    If the Esoteric K03Xs CD/SACD Player has harsh leading and trailing edges...

    I've owned 3 Esoteric SACD players, the early ones had an edge the latter ones not. Having said that, my room is now treated with GIK panels, and what a difference they made, so how much was my room on the earlier Esoterics, I now have the K03Xs after owning the K-01, K-01X and it is superb, and...
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    Equipment Rack Location

    Really unless you have a very large room rack between the speakers or off to the side both cause issues, so pick your poison, on the side wall you impact the width of the room and cause the sound of your rack to influence due to the acoustics changing from say wall with the rack and its depth...
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    If the Esoteric K03Xs CD/SACD Player has harsh leading and trailing edges...

    Funny, I owned the Esoteric K-01 and I found it very musical. I used no tweaks on my cables or power cords. Which can cause issues with the balance of the signal where highs become forward etc. If I played 1950s Sinatra the playback was as warm as the tube gear the cording was made on. Played...
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    Where Do You Place Your Equipment Stands?

    My rack is on the side wall away from the speakers with my amp on an amp stand between the speakers. I feel no vibrations when your music is playing due to the amp and rack's location and design. The rack is close to the side wall with enough space for me to connect power cords and interconnect...
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    Positioning the new Reference SACD SA10 from Marantz

    I have owned the SA10 now for 2 plus years after selling my Esoteric K-01. I lost nothing and gained a more natural sound. Settings of course make a difference to a good degree. Filter 1, noise shaping 3-1, headphones off (when on it impacts the music) gain set to medium, yes it impacts the...
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    Do Mobile Fidelity Vinyl Re-issues Have a Digital Step in the Process?

    I think a part of the issue here is like my friends who own many releases and loved them is that now they find DSD was used or digital in a step of the process they are upset but I think it is also and one agreed that DSD or digital can sound so good and that goes against their beliefs that...
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    Do Mobile Fidelity Vinyl Re-issues Have a Digital Step in the Process?

    He likes another pressing, well that goes with any format. Sorry I had American LPs, then purchased Japanese LPs and then German LPs, versions, and guess what they sound a bit different. I have friends who own MoFi LPs and raved about how good they sounded, and that's all that counts, now they...
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    Do Mobile Fidelity Vinyl Re-issues Have a Digital Step in the Process?

    Any format used is suitable as the care taken, and even if mastered from a digital source, in fact, that can sound more accurate than coming from a master tape that is long past its prime and has degraded over the past 60 years. And chances are the master is long gone and they are using safety...
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    Elvis

    This was just a great movie by itself, interesting, joyful, sadness, but in the end, it was a moving story, and that voice even at the end was so powerful and with such a feeling, when Elvis said he sounded like nobody he was right he had a special talent and when he had interest he was...
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    Done with digital

    All gear adds coloration and TT do, the mats used to do, the arm does, room feedback that the stylus picks up does, cartridges do, and the stand you sit the turntable on also does. I love vinyl, I grew up with vinyl, but when folks start saying how superior it is, well that's not true, it cannot...
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    Done with digital

    I heard Oboe's sound real on my CD-based system and I have been going to the Cleveland Orch at Severence Center for the past 35 years. I have many recordings of them playing and when recorded right and mastered right the listening is like being there.
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    Done with digital

    True but vinyl it does not exist, like in digital it does not, which one you enjoy does exist, but what was heard in the studio we will never know. I look at Vinyl like Electrostatic speakers, never over dynamic, limited reproduction but what they do well they do like no speaker can, I owned...
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    Done with digital

    The problem is what is raw/uncooked at natural? That is to each his own what they feel it is. Smile!
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    Done with digital

    More to your point, very turntable sounds different, arm, platter, mat used, and then the actual impact on top of all of those colorations is what cartridge you selected. Like cooking, we all have our tastes and the spices we like to add. I enjoyed my turntable days I grew up in this hobby with...
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    Done with digital

    I grew up on vinyl-owned 1st pressings from the time I was 8 till 42. A friend brought over his Sony XA7ES if I recall, and he played my LP and then his new mastered CD of the same, I told him don't bother, and he said to stay open-minded. Back and forth we went, and I told him to be honest it...
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    State of the industry - Roy Gregory Editorial

    So much under goes on, reviewers must make a huge amount of money if they can have in their home turntables at 100K, speakers to match and these reviewers always drop the amount of money their gear is, I make really good money but 100K or 50K turntables are not in my cards that is for sure, or...
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    My own experience with Luxman D10X

    Blessed I am I guess. Never had any issues with any I purchased and some early ones sound great, no compression used as it is today on all recordings for the most part, streaming, CD or vinyl.
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    My own experience with Luxman D10X

    Knock on wood I never had a damaged CD in 30 years and I've owned most likely 2,000 or more. Listening to a Telarc disc from 1991 as I write this. Corrision? what in the air there...smile!
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    My own experience with Luxman D10X

    God bless you that you had the time to burn/rip 5,000 CDs so you could play them through a storage streaming device. I have no time to even start that task. I burned 1,400 to my USB flash drive for use in my car, and that was more than enough time to let me know there is no way in heaven I could...
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    My own experience with Luxman D10X

    My dealer keeps pushing streamers and DAC and I keep showing him my CDs sound better and in every case, he says well in this recording I would agree. I have 1,500 CDs, I grew up on vinyl and collected 1,000's, and I no longer use vinyl, so my question to this salesperson tell me why I should buy...
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    An argument for NOT spiking speakers to floor

    Everything in life has a sonic signature, No matter what you use under speakers or gear you are trading one signature for another and the important thing is if you like it or not, but don't call it correct. Your ear and your room and your idea of sonic bless... a smile. It is not like another...
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    An argument for NOT spiking speakers to floor

    Well, let's look at instruments when played to vibrate? Does a guitar body vibrate, snare drum when hit, Kick drum, piano? Should we spike a piano, drums sets, damp the guitar body? No, that is why they have their own sound and sound live. Spikes have become standard only because they are...
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    Who’s up for a $2800 fuse?

    So a fuse can sound as good as an upgraded piece of electronics gear, if you believe that then god bless you. Enjoy! No way no how for me. :)
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    Who’s up for a $2800 fuse?

    They are blowing because they are not made right or to spec, if you have to start raising the amperage on a fuse to go way above what the unit is rated for that should scare the hell out of you if you have a power surge and 2nd tells you how poorly these homemade fuses are made. It is...
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    Protection and clean power

    Like always each unit adds something to the reproduction. Base testing everything has to be everything plugged into the wall as a starting point you will then hear the sound el-natural as the designers of the gear intended. In fact, once using the system for days like that it does sound quite...
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    Equi=Tech 2RQ Versus PS Audio P10

    Like always each unit adds something to the reproduction. Base testing everything has to be everything plugged into the wall as a starting point you will then hear the sound el-natural as the designers of the gear intended. In fact, once using the system for days like that it does sound quite...
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    Isolation Transformer and Balanced Power versus PS Audio Regenerator

    PURCHASED A CORE 600 FOR MY FRONT-END SYSTEM FROM UNDERWOOD HIFI AND IT SOUNDS AS GOOD AS ANY POWER CONDITIONER I'VE OWN FROM $5,000 AND UP AND YOU CAN NAME THE NAMES. SUPER QUIET, DETAIL, YET WITH BODY AND COLOR, PS AUDIO REGENERATORS ARE AS GOOD OR PERHAPS A LITTLE TOUCH BETTER, THE REST...
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    Let's Get A Consensus Of The Best DAC's In The Market Today

    A very natural DAC is built into the Marantz SA-10 SACD player which is no oversampling and the DAC is direct out. This unit has tone, color, and really deep bass, and reproduction of piano and the human voice is just so right and real sounding, plus it plays my 1,500 CD collection and counting...

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