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arcticdeth

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Very Best Bootlegs
Love bootleg box sets.       
Audio By Van Alstine DVA M225 mono amps
Heard great talk about AVA, even heard positive about their customer. Service.      Very basic designs, which have good reliability    
Can a Amp be "timeless" and compete with todays amps?
@fthompson251    where are located? Don’t just send them to any old shop, research a lot! we drove many hours to Rockford,IL TO A PLACE CALLED : https://soundsclassic.com   i refuse to ship my gear, I will drive my,amps to the headquarters if... 
I finally purchased a new Integrated Amp
Luxman???   nice, great gear musically and aesthetically!!      Love the silver faceplates , for past 30 years had all black components, now I have incorporated many silver faceplates, looks so much better.   awesome receiver!! Looking forwa... 
Fear Inoculum in Vinyl
Cousin bought me the new Tom petty LP, I purchased the 2 LP GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY DBL vinyl, vacuumed, ran it on the platter, and not a pop, tick, absolutely great, my old records, most have some pops and ticks during playback,     The sound is... 
best amp for a Maggy 1.7i
Never owned ML’s or Maggie’s, if they are at all bright, those emo amps would not fit well. They are overly bright in treble, mid and have high gain, which promotes tweeter hiss, but you don’t need worry about that.   
Sunday dreaming about preamps...
McCormack VRE-1 preamp!  
Too Much Power
I have a post it note on top of my preamp “scotch or beer, lower the volume”   had nightmares in the late 80’s early 90’s with smaller speakers. Not with my,modded CV D-8 pairs. Power hungry monkey coffins. After the right side binding posts li... 
Too Much Power
Never too much power.      The sound will be effortless and open, airy etc my speakers are rated for 250w and have never sounded better with a Sunfire 600:sig at the helm!  You need the power. Get power and don’t look back   would need a lot ... 
Help picking an amp to work with my system
Sounds of underpoweringspeakers.    make sure you have the headroom  those 25W thingies are fine for an average room or small room with a sub they sound nice.    if you love a little volume , you will need a good, 200wpc had 15 or so amps sinc... 
most beautiful (looking) speakers
Gallo with the steel mesh cover. Sound was also amazing   cerwin vega 2000-15   energy rc-70 w grills removed   altec Lansing m510.   acoustic energy 500 series.    BIC v-830  
Home Demo Faceoff: Nordost / Audioquest / Transparent
Audioquest.    great company, people!   have pair xlr cables. We moved, sat idle for long time, a small wire was broke. Called, sent in, returned like new, one of the best warranties in audio.   lifetime warranty, will always be loyal to them.   
Can a great system make a mediocre recording sound good?
Started tape trading in u.s. u.k. Germany, Sweden, been sent 3,4,5,6 gen demo and live shows. most sound horrible, but that’s part of the fun of it.    cassettes get play on my,Panasonic ex-c45, and the National. a great sounding lil beast!  
Forgotten heavy bands from late 60's to early 70's
Most bands mentioned are,not metal. Maybe a,precursor in down tuned guitars. with the Sabbath slow dirge and bass heavy sound.      Leaf hound, possibly a steep towards that direction   coven (lyrics are amazing, Jinx has the perfect voice for... 
Best Rock Drummers
Munetaka higuchi