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    Puresound Titanium speaker cables (1.2 metre pair with spades)

    This is an extremely rare pair of Puresound Titanium cables. The cables use an alloy of palladium and gold and are shrouded in a woven Titanium outer. Length of each cable is 1.2 metres. Condition is good with no damage or signs of wear. Sound quality? Quite an airy, detailed sound with...
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    Audiophile Fuses

    I've always been sceptical about fuses but following a friend's experience with SR black fuse in his Ayre KXR, I decided to give it a go (30 days free trial made it a no brainier). Results: following my friend's experience with blowing these fuses, I went for a couple of steps higher rating for...
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    Krell FBP600 with factory upgrade to 700cx

    Great condition Krell FBP600 which was upgraded to FBP7000cx by authorised Krell service centre. Supplied with custom wooden shipping crate and also purpose made Transparent Reference power lead. 230v unit. Located in U.K. £4750 plus shipping
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    Aurender S10 (silver) for sale

    Aurender sold
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    Aurender S10 (silver) for sale

    Aurender w20 now settled in and content of my s10 now cloned onto w20, so s10 now packed up and ready for a new home. Great piece which sounds terrific. Price drop to £2400 plus shipping. Happy to demo.
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    What cables are you using in your system ?????

    Thanks for the background. I certainly can't disagree with your last sentence. I think the basic metallurgical aspects are empirical and not well understood but as long as the results of the cookery work then we are all happy.
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    dCS Vivaldi Cables?

    Exactly. I viewed the clock cable as a much simpler, more predictable situation. From that point of view, I thought there was possibly little real benefit in exotic high end designer cables for the clock signal Your point on bending is also a good one. Any thoughts on mechanical micro...
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    dCS Vivaldi Cables?

    This was primarily done for clock cables. Maybe unsurprisingly, those cables which showed minimal disruption of signal actually sounded best. Nice to see a convergence of subjective with measurement.
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    dCS Vivaldi Cables?

    Testing reflection in various digital cables we found some interesting cable variations Ideally we should have seen a straight line. I won't embarrass any particular manufacturer by naming the particularly poor performers.
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    What cables are you using in your system ?????

    Checked it, thanks So why do you make your assertion? Not looking to argue, just looking to understand the basis of claim
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    What cables are you using in your system ?????

    What do you base that assumption on?
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    dCS Vivaldi Cables?

    Bad assumption. The issue is as much to do with the connectors as the cable.
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    What cables are you using in your system ?????

    Power leads: Siltech Reference for analogue components, MIT Magnum for digital components. Analogue interconnects: Siltech Empress Digital Interconnects:AES/EBU Siltech Reference Digital Clock:stereovox video FireWireand USB: Siltech Speaker: Vertex AQ Hirez
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    Collectible speakers

    Nakamichi Dragon Electrostatics. Bought the only pair I've ever seen for £500 on UK EBay a while back. It was a failed project in which Nakamichi commissioned a speaker design from a Singapore/Australian design team. Prototype batch (50 pairs?) wildly exceeded manufacturing cost target so...
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    FOR SALE: Wilson Audio Alexandria XLF - Desert Silver - NO REASONABLE OFFER REFUSED!

    If American will take them as hand baggage, I'll bring 'em home to the UK
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    Aurender S10 (silver) for sale

    DCS Verdi Encore and Logitech Transporter added
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    dCS Vivaldi Cables?

    Actually clock cable exactly about that. Reflections because of load mismatch can screw up by creating reflections back down the cable.
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    Aurender S10 (silver) for sale

    Aurender S10 (silver), DCS Verdi Encore, Logitech Transporter for sale I've just ordered a W20 to replace my S10 and now the S10 needs to find a new home. The W20 needs to arrive first (end September) so I can use the Aurender clone function to transfer contents across from S10 to W20. Unit...
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    What SONG are you listening to right now?

    Eli Jenkins Prayer from Under Milk Wood.
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    Anyone compare MSB sound to dCS Vivaldi or Scarlatti sound? Please share impressions.

    I've not heard MSB other than at a show so I don't feel able to comment on its superiority. Also I think every DCS show demo I've heard has been disappointing and, as a confirmed DCS user, I know I get it sounding much better at home than the company does in the unforgiving setting of a hotel...
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    What country has the best beer?

    For me, Belgium easily tops the list. Westvleteren 12 (when you can get it) is wonderful. St Bernardus ABT is a good substitute if Westvleteren is unobtainable. Rochefort 12 is excellent. Take care with some of these beers. Serving temperatures should be a touch higher than our American...
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    aurender N100H

    Interesting debate. After not using my DCS transport for many months, last week I put it back into my Scarlatti system and compared SACD quality from disk with Flac 16/44 playback of ripped or Qobus streamed material using my Aurender s10. No contest! The disk player is being sold together with...
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    dCS Vivaldi Cables?

    I agree with you: clock cables make a big difference. As I mentioned previously, key issue is 75 ohm impedance to minimise internal reflections. Worth trying a decent video cable such as Stereovox component video. Some exotic digital BNC cables from audio cable manufacturers were way out.
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    dCS Vivaldi Cables?

    Watch out on the clock cabling. Key issue (only issue?) is the 75 ohm impedance spec. Anything different will produce internal reflections. I had our lab test a range of cables and some very upmarket digital cables were not so close to the required impedance.
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    If you switched from Tact room correction to something else, what did you switch to?

    I switched from Tact to passive room treatment using damping panels, bass traps etc. every electronic solution I tried causes negative effect on soundstage. Extra electronic processing was a negative factor.
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    dCS Users

    SRS is better. I use Quarzlock which is even better with lower phase noise, cost €4.5k, made in UK,
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    dCS Users

    So you want the one line answer. Simple. To get best performance from the stacks I own/have owned (original Verdi/Purcell/Elgar/clock; Scarlatti upsampler/clock/Dac; Vivaldi clock/upsampler/DAC) the answer is clear that each piece adds significant improvement. In addition, external 10MHz...
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    dCS Users

    I understand. Certainly it is possible just to start with the DAC. If so, I would just input files with no additional external processing. I don't see much benefit in upsampling on the computer. What digital equipment do you use now?
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    dCS Users

    Why would you want to when you have the excellent DCS upsampler?
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    dCS Users

    I think we have a communication breakdown here. Aurender files may be 16/44 rips or 24 bit hires downloads. Certainly hires files can go direct to Dac, but others are upsampler. I also use Sonos, Crestron Adagio and satellite TV digital audio, all of which will benefit from upsampling

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