alvinnir2
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| The Sacred Ritual of Vinyl: A Return to Mindful Listening @dogberry happy days indeed. Lucky you. I have found this to be a really interesting post. Having been through vinyl, 8 tracks, cassettes , CDs, digital files from computer, and now streaming I can say i've had extensive time with all formats. I... | |
| The Sacred Ritual of Vinyl: A Return to Mindful Listening One thing I truly loved about vinyl, was the "Ritual" of going to the "record store" where you could go into the store and interact with people who worked there and were music lovers as well. They would be excited to share a new album with you a... | |
| The Sacred Ritual of Vinyl: A Return to Mindful Listening @unreceivedogma You are correct, it is not for me.......anymore. I was into the ritual for almost 60 years and have owned numerous high end turntables, cartridges, and phono preamps. When you have done something that long, some rituals no longer ... | |
| The Sacred Ritual of Vinyl: A Return to Mindful Listening I really miss having to get dressed for the weather, get in my car, fight traffic to get to a place to buy my records,, park the car, walk to store, walk the aisles to find the record I want, line up at the cash to pay for my record, drive home, ... | |
| Back in the vinyl saddle again. I had a VPI Aries with the same tonearm, I think you are likely to not find anything comparable to what you have table and arm wise for your budget so I’d say keep them I think a new cartridge is a great idea. Buying used is a bit of a mixed bag ... | |
| PrimaLuna EVO 400 v Cary SLI-100 Some good advice here. Your Heresy Speakers are very efficient at 99db. You can easily get away with a low powered amp and have the ability to then use single ended triode class A amps that use wonderful sounding tubes like 300B, 845 or other amp... | |
| The best opening act you've ever seen & heard? @larsman - And rock they did. There had never been a band before them with so much persussive elements. They were so tight. I just recently read Sanata’s autobiography and he has a good story about that concert. Apparently they were told they wou... | |
| Eversolo or Aurender: Options and Opinions I had a U1 Mini without the LPS and upgraded it to an Auralic Aries G2. It was a worthwhile upgrade soundwise and I much prefer the Auralic Lightening App to the Lumin App. BTW I bought it used in Vancouver, where I think you live as well, for a ... | |
| The best opening act you've ever seen & heard? Well not exactly the opening act but a surprise nonetheless. Santana at Woodstock. No one out east had heard of them . They were virtually unknown as their first album had not yet been released. Before they played many were thinking who is this b... | |
| Aurender a1000 impressions vs Eversolo A6 and Cambridge Cxn100 I think the incremental jumps in quality between these 3 units are likely more from the improvements in the internal DACs. In my experience, the DAC has a larger influence on sound than the streamer. A entry level streamer with a excellent DAC wil... | |
| Auditioned Wilson Sabrina X vs B&W 803D4 and Shocked I am lucky to live in a city with several brick and mortar hifi stores so am able to audition speakers in person. When I was shopping for new speakers a few years ago, I found that the disconnect between what many reviewers liked and what I though... | |
| Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs? I now exclusively stream music. Here are some comments on why and some responses to other opinions. If your CD player sounds better than streamed music it’s probably because you have not optimized your streaming set up. If you are still using a c... | |
| Enough is Enough @ricred1 Well I went onto your profile and had a look at your system. If your dealer think it sucks then I think they might have to invent some new words to describe mine. I wish I had a system as wonderful as yours. Maybe mention the name ... | |
| Calling All Tube Gurus I don’t mean to derail this in any way but wanted to add my experience. In the pursuit of better sound we search out tubes,sometimes based on some thing we read like "Joe’s tube lore".Why Not ? It’s a fun and informative read. But these and simila... | |
| Eversolo DMP-A8 bypassing my preamp despite setting to fixed volume out 2 things not so far mentioned and likely you have already tried this BUT: Can you adjust volume via the Volume knob rather than the remote? Are you sure you have not hooked up your power amp cables to the "record Out" outputs? |