atagulkula
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| Is the Eames chair a favorite Yeah the Eames original is expensive but the better replicas are the same or less than the Stressless and have very good reputations despite Chinese build. I'll check out a Stressless | |
| What do/did you do for a living? Financial crime scene investigation - hedgefundcsi@gmail.com Madoff Stanford other large ponzu schemes. Interesting work. Investigated and reported to Congress on why SEC missed Madoff. | |
| Ever feel like a "low dollar" customer that your dealer doesn't think worth their time? Mike at Audio Classics has been great to me. Bought a MC 275 and a MC 123 for excellent prices. After I had inquired about the 8k 123 and decided to hold off. He called a week later. Customer had bought it and returned 3 days later upping to ... | |
| A warm DAC? I very much like the Benchmark at ~$2200 | |
| Need preamp recommendation I recently got a new McIntosh 123 and it ticks your boxes phono stage, all the streaming capabilities DSD and excellent DACs too ! I caught a 3 day returned open box at low end of your px range. Marantz has a similar unit at half of Mc but not has... | |
| Can I go wrong with Stillpoint Ultra Mini anti-vibration isolation feet? I wonder if anyone else has tried ( feel free to laugh but they work pretty darn well IMO) rubber hockey pucks as isolation feet, for < $2 each hard to go wrong I have several sets that I use under amps, UDP. | |
| Expectations after re cap of power-amp I just had a Krell KAV 250 refurbished which I believe was mostly new caps and while it always was a touch tad or pinch ( not sure which) better than its KAV 250/3 partner in my system to my ears after the refur it does sound “fresher and cleaner”... | |
| Do any still use an older high end tuner from the past?.... I have a barely used Jolida tube tuner that really sings when I had it connected. Put it up for sale but got got nothing but uhhhh radio silence (sorry). Nice looking unit too maybe I’ll break it out again | |
| I'm interested in hearing what "the best" systems sound like, where to go? baclagg+1 to Nils Lofgren, a local guy from Bethesda MD and his bro Tom is pretty good too! Most people don't even know of Nils even though he played with Neil Young, the E Street Band and Ringo. Excellent guitar work in his discography. Keith d... | |
| Need under $1500 preamp for my system There are 1 or 2 listed already and I will be listing another-Krell HTS that while also multi channel throws an outstanding sounstage and is highly nuanced IMO. I use a Jolida tube tuner with it and it is really engaging. Well under 1500 | |
| Advice on whether speaker upgrade is in order Following and reading as this is interesting to me as I have old but very reliable 804Matrix fronts from early nineties I think and 805 N rear surrounds (sound anchor on both make dramatic positive impact to low end ) some unknown but ok sounding ... | |
| Headphone amp as pre amp I use my Benchmark headphone amp as a pre and use clean out to my Mac 275 tube amp with excellent results | |
| Jolida JD-402 Tube Tuners I'm posting a near mint JD402A tonight. $375 | |
| Audio Mods for the Jolida JD-100A CD Player I own a level 2 mod JD 100A by Underwood Wally and parts Connexion, that I use for all my CD's. IMO opinion it is an equivalent sound on CD from my McIntosh MCD 301. Obviously it doesn't play SACD. I am considering selling but I see a stock on... |