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| What would you do? I have a Denon DP 47F that I bought new about 30 years ago. It has functioned flawlessly - I've never had a problem with it. I'm running a Hana SL cartridge through a Krell phono preamp. I replaced a Shure V15-V with the Hana and I very happy with... | |
| Krell, MBL, Levinson, et al... What if 50% off? I don't agree with the basic premise of your question. There is no evidence that high end audio is dying. Read the reports of the Munich or Chicago shows and tell me that high end is not healthy. There are new companies and ultra expensive compone... | |
| How old is too old? I'm of a similar age and over the last few years I have been buying my end-stage components. I have a large collection of CDs and SACDs and I can't bear to part with them. I also stream using Qobuz but there is just something more satisfying about... | |
| How reliable is PS audio equipment? I have bought several components from PSA but I will never do business with them again due an extremely dissappointing experience with their CD transport. I bought a Perfect Wave Transport (the original CD only version) around 2019. I found out a... | |
| Chair We just moved into our new house and I have been looking for a new listening chair. We were visiting my daughter in Bozeman and decided to go furniture shopping. I encountered the most comfortable recliner I have ever sat in. I haven't bought it y... | |
| There is no substitute for cubic inch or in this case surface area In my experience there is only moderate correlation between speaker or driver size and the size of the soundstage the speaker throws. There are small bookshelf speakers with two drivers that when placed on stands and positioned properly produce a ... | |
| Best ear plugs for both sound quality and reduction Another vote for the Etymotic ER20. For about a decade I attended a lot of very loud shows and these always did the trick. During that time I had a recording studio in my houses where I recorded local bands and I bought these by the dozen to give ... | |
| Has anyone tried these products? Panels such as these have been engineeered for maximum sound absorption per unit of thickness. Their specifications are credible. Nobody is going to plaster these panels on all of their wall space. They are intended to reduce reflections in a liv... | |
| What do the statistics say about the age of Audiophiles and the replacement rate? I don't see any evidence that that the audiophile hobby is dying or even shrinking. 1. There are more audiophile brands every week. I see company after company coming onto the scene with new gear at all price levels. Peruse the latest Music Direc... | |
| comparison between Teac 701t transport vs esoteric p-70 model or alike? I have the 701T as well as a Jay's Audio CD3 MkIII. Both are hooked up to my Berkeley Reference MKII MQA so it's easy to compare them. I can't say with any confidence that I can hear a difference. They both sound wonderful. The reason I have both... | |
| What does 90% of the Absolute Best Sound Cost? Interesting question. For the sake of discussion I'm going to use retail prices for this exercise. Obviously you could do much better by buying used equipment, which, like you, I did, but I'm trying to compare apples to apples. The core of my sys... | |
| Modular LP record storage suggestions @inagroove Thanks for the excellent suggestions. I particularly like the pipe insulation. | |
| MissingCDs and records I'm in the process of moving to our new house and this would have been an excellent time to get rid of my 4000+ CDs and 1000+ records. I've even ripped all my CDs to FLAC. But I couldn't do it. There is something about spinning the physical media ... | |
| Outlet Requirements I'm goingt to assume that you had the electrician install 3 separate circuits (2 @ 20 amps each + 1 @ 30 amps). If this is not the case please let us know. Does the 30 amp circuit have a 30 amp receptacle? That would be an odd choice because it wo... | |
| Good outlet for amplifiers I met Caelin Gabriel (principal at Shunyata) at AXPONA several years ago during a slow time, and we talked for quite a while. When outlets came up he told me the following tips: Hospital grade outlets are not appropriate for audio because they ar... |