albertporter
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| Pet Peeves Viridian, did you like the hungry fat cat video? I laughed out loud when my son sent me that link. | |
| Pet Peeves What about pets that add their own sounds while you're trying to listen?Good Example | |
| Considering analog...but nervous 01-23-11: Schipo100% free of all noise?I doubt this very much and I'm a vinyl buff.Schipo (Threads | Answers | This Thread)Assuming you are addressing my comment:I have my vinyl playback pretty much 100% free of all noise. It's possible to do but ... | |
| Considering analog...but nervous In response to your question:On with the questions:1. One of the biggest things that has kept me from trying Vinyl thus far is the concern of excessive hiss and crackle/pop that vinyl is known for. Is it safe to assume that purchasing new Vinyl an... | |
| Aesthetix Rhea Signature and IO MK2 Save the NOS tubes from your Calypso and use them in the IO, the IO is one of the finest phono stages ever built, I don't think you will ever regret going that way.Callisto is equal to the IO, one of the best ever. Take this one step at a time, go... | |
| Aesthetix Rhea Signature and IO MK2 Your dealer is correct. The Io is much better than the Rhea, I have had both in my system and compared. | |
| HDMI Switchers I own the Oppo switcher, it is excellent.Other than my opinion, consider this experience, something that came as a complete surprise to both myself and my tech.I paid for professional set up of my 65" Panasonic Plasma and after the initial calibra... | |
| How popular is Wire Transfer..... One of the earlier posters said that Paypal was structurally set up to allow Buyers to defraud Sellers but not vice versa. This has not been my experience. I once used Paypal to pay for a piece of electronics which the seller never shipped. The bu... | |
| How popular is Wire Transfer..... Dennis saved me a lot of typing as I was about to enter this discussion and post all the points he's made. One thing I didn't see mentioned, PayPal is frequently requested for overseas transactions and sometimes the buyer wants the item shipped to... | |
| Why Doesn't Contemporary Jazz Get Any Respect? 12-23-10: Coltrane1Wow, what a great post from 8 years back that avoided me until today.I find it extremely interesting that not one contributor to the post mentions that Jazz, like it or not, IS considered America's only true art form.Maybe not i... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? It's so close to Christmas I think it's time to spin some serious holiday music:Jingle One of the few holiday CDs I'll play on my system. | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Nilthepill, I appreciate your comments.My list of digital trials would be long, it goes back more than 25 years. The last serious attempt was a couple of years ago, a very expensive one box player sent to me by the importer. It was not to my likin... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? (Alex) Sure, but in my experience there are also recordings available on high-res digital media that, for some reason, sound better than the analog release, so I guess good digital is not a bad thing to have around. I don't disagree that digital ... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? I can very much sympathise with your "battle", as in many ways I have gone through similar myself: the difference being that in my case I was able to reach a positive, rather than negative outcome, with what would be considered pretty ordinary equ... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? 12-20-10: Muralman1Albertporter,My system won't like any cable with more than a whisper of dielectric. :-)My Audio Note with important diode change, and 47 Lab Flatfish feeding it will change your mind. That would be nice, wish we lived close enou... |