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You guys are starting to make me wonder if we are developing completely separate communities between the site and forums here. Karp starting on Sept 3, Audioholics will be my full time job so be prepared as I intend to give what you ask (with the help of my staff of course) :D

Basically yes. In most cases you are better off just choosing a lower gauge single wire solution. For every doubling of a particular wire gauge, your effective gauge goes down by 3AWG. Thus two pairs of 12AWG speaker wire effective gauge works out to about 9AWG. You are usually better...

Mudcat; Stop reading my mind and stealing my ideas ;) We were actually going to offer this service after we get back from Cedia. I am looking for cables from: Nordost, Audioquest, Analysis Plus, Transparant Audio, Bettercables, etc.

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Broos; The old Aragon 8008 series of amps are superb in design and function. My previous reference system comprised of the 8008x3 (similar to the 8008ST)and 8002. These amps are a far step above the old Acurus stuff (which in inself were also great amps for the price). Klipsch has since...

Jack feel free to discuss your opinions on cables. They are quite entertaining so long as you don't try to push them as scientific facts. There are plenty of other websites and magazine publications that do cater to the metaphysics and chocolatey midrange magic of cables, but as you are...

Amazing, I remember reading a cable review on another website where the author stated his wife also heard differences in cables from the other room. Either some audiophiles have wives with super human hearing or fall victim to placebo effects. Cable break in is about as non fictional as...

Jack; Cable Break In is a classic snake oil cable myth. There is no mechanism for cable break in, let alone the termination. While its great that you seem to perceive a sonic difference in the type of termination you are using in your cable you should try a controlled DBT test to ensure it...

We just reviewed the Harman KArdon AVR 130. So you may wish to check it out.

I am selling my Sony SCD-CE775 Audience Modded SACD Player This is an excellent sounding SACD changer. Now that I have digital i.link and two universal SACD players, I no longer need this player. I am willing to part with it for $350 + shipping. Audience charges $500 alone just for the...

You will get no argument from me there :) Any alleged benefit of reduction of back EMF from the drivers induced in the cables will still be presented to the single amplifier connection. I like to refer to "Bi wire" and "buy wire" :p

Rather than going through the hassle of biwiring with two sets of 12AWG wire, instead go with one set on 10AWG wire as it will yield nearly similar resistance, inductance and less capacitance. It will also be easier for connecting. I would suggest using cables with compression style bananas...

Ok lets simplify the Bi Amping process by assuming we know the unity gain volume setting for the amps to be nearly balanced (+2dB): Step #1: Connect a pair of analog RCA cables from the preamp outs of the "Front" channels to an unused input of the AVR-3805 (In my case, I chose the CD inputs)...

Chris; Thanks for the suggestions and we are looking at simplifying the forum sections. There are way too many IMO. I think we got a little out of hand :rolleyes:

I checked this a month or so ago but will bring it up again at Cedia to make sure. Everybody is slammed getting ready for the show right now so sit tight.

82dB SNR is rated at 1watt so its actually not a bad spec. The distortion is high, but some people like the colored sound of tube distortion. Tubes disrtort much more gracefully than solid state amps. 40wpc is prob ok for high efficient speakers in a small to medium sized room, but not for...

Mitch; I think it will work with 3910. Last time I checked, Denon got provisioning from Sony to do this. Its a rough time right now to get ahold of the right people at Denon with all the prepping for Cedia, but rest assured all of this will be covered by us in detail with our Cedia...

Rob, lets also not forget that not all measurements are truly objective. Often more the case than not, a reviewer (not from Audioholics of course ;) ) will misinterpret a measurement, or make it incorrectly (especially for speakers) and imply a certain characterstic for a product that may...

Fortunately for cables, measurements do tell the whole story. For loudspeakers and other electronics it becomes far more involving. Making the right acoustical measurement of speakers and correlating that to sound is very tricky and often incomplete.

Its hard to make an intelligent recommendation when one doesn't know the following: 1) Your room size and dynamics 2) Your speaker configuration, brand and models 3) Your budget 4) Your primary objectives (which sounds like home theater) There are cheaper alternatives depending on your...