aewarren
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| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live I've had neighbors ask, "Is this the house where the band lives?" Imagine Miles and Trane living in my house. | |
| To couple, or not to couple, that is the question My speakers are on a second floor suspended wood floor. I decouple. On a concrete basement slab, I think I would couple. It's not very often that we successfully go against our preconceived notions. | |
| Benz Micro Glider Stylus protection Your SME V has a cueing device. Use it. | |
| Static attack! Time to get the humidifiers going Apparently by spending gobs of bad money after good. | |
| How many people do you think have the same DAC, amplifier, and speakers My ex-wife has the same system as I do, along with everything else I used to own. | |
| Digital Improving All the Time? I've found that the older I get, the worse my streaming gets. | |
| Sad songs- We love them- We need them Candle In The Wind ~ Sir Elton I Remember Sky ~ Dianne Reeves | |
| Magnepan .7 Alternatives Your biggest issue is with the room dimensions. Basically those are the wrong speakers for that size room or the wrong room for those speakers. Good luck! | |
| What’s your latest high-end audio purchase? I bought a lot more music this year. It makes my stereo sound great. | |
| Where did you buy your first audio gear? @mikelavigne I also bought my first real stereo from Len at Magnolia Hi-Fi in Seattle when it was a neighborhood small appliance store around 1969 or ’70. Gerrard Zero-100 TT, large Advents, Marantz console amp. Anybody remember Jafco on Westlake? | |
| Should I bi-amp or bridge my amps to feed my speakers I have heard those speakers with and without subs at a dealer in Portland and the spatial difference was not subtle. They were also spread farther apart from each other than "normal" and severely toed in. I don't remember which amps were driving t... | |
| I have seen a lot of ideas concerning Cable lifters I had a bunch of Vibrapods left over and just sitting in a parts drawer so I put them to use as cable lifters. Not sexy, and I'm really not certain of any improvement in sound quality but my cables are off the floor high enough for the Palmetto bu... | |
| Why not? Have you ever seen a bone-stock Harley? The after market industry (including their own) is ripe with every conceivable thing you can hang, bolt, glue or screw on one that make the bike different from someone else’s. Whether or not these additions ... | |
| Does dose anyone see these speakers in real? Those look like something you would see in a '70's hair solon. | |
| Recommendations please! I owned a Modulus #3A for many years and I can concur that it's a very good preamp with a very nice phono section. A remote was never an issue for me, but if it's important to you I'd open a conversation with @bigkidz as well and at least listen t... |