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In Reply to: RE: Is it called a swarm? posted by farfetched on September 05, 2024 at 13:22:52
There were times where you could find three sets of amps on the floor for easy comparisons. And others spread across the other listening rooms. Once he ran a pair of ASR Emitters each with its flotilla of three additional battery boxes that filled the entire space!As for "retro thrill", Harry favored Nordost cabling after comparing them with others. He's not alone with that preference. So do Carl Marchisotto of Nola and Bea Lamm and Luke Manley of VTL for their work and home systems.
Here was the last system found at Sea Cliff using the Nola Concert Grand Reference with Odin cabling throughout.
A more recent pic from the internet at an audio show in 2023 for Nola also with Odin.
As for VTL, fast forward if you don't want to watch the entire tour to about 18:30 where Bea describes their product evaluation system. She helped me years ago with a problem with one of my MB-450s that prevented me having to send them back for repair.
Nordost audio cable measures well, too. EDC (effective dielectric constant) quantifies the amount of energy stored rather than passing it through. It is essentially a product of L and C using a constant. Like golf, the ideal value is 1. Here are some comparative values I've calculated via Excel. JPS Labs is the single ended IC used for phono. 1505 is the Belden cable I use in the office in a DIY setting. Blue Truth II is the balanced cable I currently used as suggested by inmate Kal Rubinson. It's actually a later version with better metrics that matches Valhalla and available from Amazon!
With speaker cables, 5T00UP is a generic Belden cable while the JPS Labs Superconductor is what I use. Zip is always in the 3-4 range.
Edits: 09/05/24Follow Ups:
An old friend of mine lives in Glen Cove right next to Sea Cliff and I asked him if he ever heard of HP.I was so hoping he was going to say, "Oh sure, old friend, next time you visit, etc."
My biggest takeaway from HP always was, always go for the dedicated listening room rule 1. My setup is spartan and has two modes, summer gets the Audiolab 8000a, winter gets the BAT vk-3i and the VK-500. Speakers are the ever lovely LRS's. A Sub, etc.
Just a 17x12 listening room these days. But it *is* a listening room. I learned to respect the room from The Absolute Sound. It's kind of ironic. I never got a "gear snob" vibe from either TAS or Stereophile. I did see people really reaching, in order to, well, just play some lovely music.
No regrets except I never should have given away my Snell D's when I moved.
/ optimally proportioned triangles are our friends
Edits: 09/06/24
We both enjoyed sushi and he had a favorite restaurant in Glen Cove. The Salmon "saki" was always fresh.
He and his friend Dr. Cooledge (who introduced me to him) were always about the music. We attended concerts at the ASO when he visited Atlanta.
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