mep
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Only if you want to blow up your Spectral gear.
What's surprised you gear or cable wise?
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Only if you want to blow up your Spectral gear.
chops
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I never understood why anyone would want interconnect/speaker cables with circuits built into them to purposely alter the signal. Kind of defeats the purpose if you ask me.
mep
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Superwide bandwidth that will drive the amps into oscillation if the cables don't have the correct termination network.
Clean power is a must - Dedicated panel, dedicated grounding , good in wall wire , furutech NCF outlets
Cables make a huge difference at every position, I auditioned several top brands and landed on mostly zenwave and am still blown away with what I hear when comparing the competition.
First watt sit 3 playing my horn speakers was a MIND=BLOWN experience. the sound from this $3500 ss amp is on another level. Where do I go from here???
BAACH SP - IMO this is the future of digital playback at least and where I will be exploring. My soon to be Setup BAACH SP > Pass labs xp32 > 2x Firstwatt sit 3s > bi amped JBL 4367's w 2x sub 18's
Cables make a huge difference at every position, I auditioned several top brands and landed on mostly zenwave and am still blown away with what I hear when comparing the competition.
First watt sit 3 playing my horn speakers was a MIND=BLOWN experience. the sound from this $3500 ss amp is on another level. Where do I go from here???
BAACH SP - IMO this is the future of digital playback at least and where I will be exploring. My soon to be Setup BAACH SP > Pass labs xp32 > 2x Firstwatt sit 3s > bi amped JBL 4367's w 2x sub 18's
Michaels HiFi
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Which Zenwave did you end up with? I auditioned several.
GSOphile
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Zenwave +1. I have Zenwave D5 IC's between my Esoteric player and pre. Compared with several a few years ago (Transparent, Wireworld, Clarus, Synergistic Research, and Zenwave D4).
PCR11/14 power cables , DSR and D4 Interconnects , s4-17g high efficiency and SCR11 speaker cables , Clear Bass cables for my subs.
Shadowfax
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Thinking back, one of my biggest WOW moments came when I joined an audiophile society in home demo day with Lamizator, Hattor, and Pure Audio Project.
Pics here- https://www.audioshark.org/hometown...e-1pm-14884.html?highlight=Pure+Audio+Project
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We were in the basement with the Trio15s and the Voxative Field Coils driven from a hybrid Lampi Integrated I don't know if they ever sold, and the Pacific DAC after they rolled some special tubes in.
They played Jessica Williams "Heather" from Live at Yoshi and I was floored. I bought the disk that week but have yet heard it sound the same on any system since. That is a killer test and demo track.
Anyway, I will never own a Pacific but it sure was fun to experience it.
Pics here- https://www.audioshark.org/hometown...e-1pm-14884.html?highlight=Pure+Audio+Project
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We were in the basement with the Trio15s and the Voxative Field Coils driven from a hybrid Lampi Integrated I don't know if they ever sold, and the Pacific DAC after they rolled some special tubes in.
They played Jessica Williams "Heather" from Live at Yoshi and I was floored. I bought the disk that week but have yet heard it sound the same on any system since. That is a killer test and demo track.
Anyway, I will never own a Pacific but it sure was fun to experience it.
Mr Peabody
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Mr Peabody
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I took this from a review in Absolute Sound
MIT’s reputation in audio circles is inarguable. In the realm of cable and AC products few other designer/manufacturers have stood at the forefront of our hobby like Bruce Brisson, who founded MIT in 1984. For years, questions have swirled around MIT’s “mysterious” network enclosures and the Multi-Pole Technology they house. Brisson addressed this issue during his discussion with editor-in-chief Robert Harley in the “Cable Designer Roundtable” in Issue 234. When he was asked about the core beliefs that guide his product development, he replied: “When measuring correctly, using impedance analyzers, one understands that audio cables suffer from at least two resonances. As an example, an eight-to-ten-foot speaker cable will typically possess a series resonance somewhere below 1kHz as well as a parallel resonance somewhere between 150kHz to 250kHz. Using a form of piecewise network analysis, I optimize the cable’s resonances via additional networks, hence the network boxes found on all MIT cables. Our best cables possess networks that optimize the cable to function without the series resonance down to a fractional hertz, or just above DC. Looking at the high frequencies in the time domain, our best speaker cables yield a useful transient response of 2.8 microseconds, or ~357kHz.”
MIT’s reputation in audio circles is inarguable. In the realm of cable and AC products few other designer/manufacturers have stood at the forefront of our hobby like Bruce Brisson, who founded MIT in 1984. For years, questions have swirled around MIT’s “mysterious” network enclosures and the Multi-Pole Technology they house. Brisson addressed this issue during his discussion with editor-in-chief Robert Harley in the “Cable Designer Roundtable” in Issue 234. When he was asked about the core beliefs that guide his product development, he replied: “When measuring correctly, using impedance analyzers, one understands that audio cables suffer from at least two resonances. As an example, an eight-to-ten-foot speaker cable will typically possess a series resonance somewhere below 1kHz as well as a parallel resonance somewhere between 150kHz to 250kHz. Using a form of piecewise network analysis, I optimize the cable’s resonances via additional networks, hence the network boxes found on all MIT cables. Our best cables possess networks that optimize the cable to function without the series resonance down to a fractional hertz, or just above DC. Looking at the high frequencies in the time domain, our best speaker cables yield a useful transient response of 2.8 microseconds, or ~357kHz.”
atmasphere
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Flat to 20hz :roflmao:
Would love to see some data on these flat to 20hz transducers, heck any data period to back any of your claims Ralph , seeing in 25 yrs not one editorial has ever tested any of your products for real bench data to back up your claims ..
BTW the Bass array was around way before Duke , some of us were dumb enuff to try 4ch back when it was thought to be the way , guess how the subs were arranged
So feel free to post up some actual bench measurements of these greatest of all time audio gear ..!
Regards
My Classic Audio Loudspeaker T-3s employ the TAD 1602 drivers. Fo of 21Hz. They are in a bass reflex cabinet. As you probably know, a bass reflex allows for bandwidth below the Fo. So the speakers are likely good below 20Hz, but flat to 20Hz is correct. They are not small; I had my cabinets built a bit taller so they would have the same volume as his model T1. Normally he cuts off the T-3 at 22 Hz, but I wanted the silly little extra 2 Hz. They seem to measure that way in the rooms I've had them using pink noise.
In a 4 channel system the speakers would be placed symmetrically about the room. In a DBA, the subs must not- they must be asymmetrical, otherwise they might not be able to break up standing waves.
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A long long way back : Moving from Bose 901 to Infinity RS IIa speakers AND how important a powerful amplifier versus a receiver was. Don’t understand it all at the time but O do now.
~Two decades ago: Moving from the Infinities to Revel Performa F52s which offered a much cleaner and detailed midrange AND were not amplifier hungry.
More recently: Finding the Strads and now the Kharmas that provide it all in equal parts better than I had ever owned. Each have allowed me to hear the differences in cables, power supply / cable / grounding / source changes. The resolution they provided made my system better on multiple ways.
Lastly, how adding a preamplifer to my great sounding DAC/Pre driven system made a huge difference.
Each step has surprised me. There probably others I have missed.
~Two decades ago: Moving from the Infinities to Revel Performa F52s which offered a much cleaner and detailed midrange AND were not amplifier hungry.
More recently: Finding the Strads and now the Kharmas that provide it all in equal parts better than I had ever owned. Each have allowed me to hear the differences in cables, power supply / cable / grounding / source changes. The resolution they provided made my system better on multiple ways.
Lastly, how adding a preamplifer to my great sounding DAC/Pre driven system made a huge difference.
Each step has surprised me. There probably others I have missed.