Recent content by Tel

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Wishing you all the very best Paul.

If you want fast speakers then nothing comes close to compression drivers (horns) In my view it is as important how fast they stop as how fast they start. I have had ESL (ML and Quad) and high efficiency box speakers and nothing comes close. I wouldn’t go back All the very best systems I have...

I don't think there is any real difference between topographies if the amp is well designed and uses good quality components, especially transformers. I had a DHT 300B amp with interstage transformers built and after a lot of listening ended up choosing a PP design. The best 300B valves I have...

It was a long running thread on Wigwam over 10 years ago. far more than 14 people took part, there was lots of discussion about the method and lots of discussion about the results. There were no better results than statistical chance. The conclusion was that there was no evidence that there was...

Astonishing that a cable used in recording studios, and presumably what was used to record a large amount of the music owned by members is deemed by some not good enough for home hifi. Says more about the neurosis and mental health of some of the members than it does about the cable.

Your thinking is back to front, a great cartridge will capture nearly all of the original signal but it is at a tiny voltage therefore the really important things are the SUT (if neeeded) and the phonostage. The pre-amp comes next and the least important is the power amps, (as long as they can...

Yes, on more than one occassion. There was no difference between a £500 cable and a kettle lead. I use kettle leads in my system, no one who has ever listened to it has ever asked about mains cables. Do a blind test on different leads, if you can do better than chance in identifying a kettle...

Indeed, this thread is about mains cables isn't it?

Probably because there aren't any :)

Apart from the fact that electrons don't flow, they sort of bump into each other.

I listened to the latest incarnations at Munich this year. I don't get them at all, at first I thought it might be the music so I waited for a quite different track, they were OK but nothing special. They were not in the main exhibition but in a really nice room in the Marriott at one of the...

Just tell your mate that there are many people who have spent years in hifi and now have >£50K systems who quite happily use kettle leads as they are as good as anything else out there. He is of course free to ignore that advice and just be a media and advertising victim and pay what ever he...

I have had a Rega DAC in my system for a number of years. It performs well and I like the variety of inputs, as I have a squeezebox, Bluray player and TV connected to it and it is happy with hi res (192K) files, and I have a few of those on the NAS. I have been to quite a few DAC bakeoffs and...

Forums and bake offs killed hifi reviews for me. I learn't more from hearing kit in real world systems than I ever learnt from magazines. When I was looking for a new pre-amp a few years ago I held a few bake offs and invited people to bring pre-amps, that gave me a chance to hear a lot if...