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| advice on dedicated line Al, in your post above, you write the following about surge protectors: "I and a number of other members use this $259 8-outlet BrickWall surge suppressor/line filter with excellent results. Note that it provides some degree of noise filtering bet... | |
| Have you ever deceived your wife-audio purchase Don't really have to. On the one hand, my wife hates my stereo. She simply doesn't get why I love it so much. On the other hand, and this is a big hand, at least she knows where I spend so much of my time when not working. Also, it's pretty tough ... | |
| Why speaker lines come and go Kijanki ... add Paradigm to the list, at least their high end speakers. The company also makes its own drivers. That's a big reason why Paradigm can pack so much speaker into such a reasonably priced package.Particularly noteworthy is their beryll... | |
| VPI Direct Drive Turntable I recall reading on one of the audio web blogs that Mathew Weisfeld is taking on a higher profile VPI management role and Mr. W is giving MW breathing room. Wish I could recall where I read this. I'm glad to read Dnath's post that the Traveler con... | |
| Audio Research d79 blows plate fuse Pka, do you intend to get a quote from ARC re the rebuild. Just curious how much they would charge. | |
| New KT150 tubes? Thanks Tsushima1. I read the various posts in the attached link. I suspect that ARC had either supplier issues and/or there were performance improvement gains by going with the new caps. My Ref 5 SE and Ref 150 both have the "old" white Teflon mon... | |
| Vandersteen 5A or Sonus Faber Stradivari Homage Very big time COOL! Really glad to hear that John Rutan came through. Kudos John!! | |
| why dsd Kijanki, I'm on another computer. My wife confiscated my computer. I mentioned all of that because I have the URL link of an article that makes a good case in support of the redbook CD format. Similarly notworthy is that the author also explains w... | |
| Why speaker lines come and go Great link Mapman. Interesting that there aren't more posts about Ohm speakers. I would sure appreciate reading more about the Ohms, so hopefully, folks who own these speakers will speak-up (pun).I'm old enough to remember when the Ohms were intro... | |
| why dsd Lloyd ... if you look at Stereophile's 2013 List of Recommended Components, you'll see some reasonably priced and highly regarded redbook CD players listed. I think the cost of top grade CDPs has gotten to the point where the entry cost will not r... | |
| Help with new speakers Gary ..., you posted that "[m]y choices are b&w, totem, golden ear, paradigm, mcintosh, dyn, and focal. Thats it. Ive owned all of these brands except golden ear and totem which i just dont like ...."Tell me about the B&Ws and Focals. Thes... | |
| Help with new speakers Well Gary ... welcome to our crazy hobby. It's a merry-go-round from which you can't easily get off. Look, I'm not telling you *not* to flip the Tributes. I've been there and done it with lots of gear. Some flips worked out ok for me and other fli... | |
| Thinking I need a Sub... B-limo, check out my posts re Tom Tutay's impedance buffer. This little piece of kit enables me to use a single self-powered sub. Of course my sub has fine tuning controls which enable me to adjust phase alignment, cut-off frequency and loudness. ... | |
| why dsd Kijanki ... admittedly I don't understand anything about Delta-Sigma DACs or Alpha-Pi-Omega D/As configureed in quad mono mode, or this or that. But I have a thread running about redbook CD not being a dead medium. I maintain that redbook CD can s... | |
| Most underrated composer of 20th Century? Newbee, I assume your post to Schubert was intended to be tongue-in-cheek. At least that's how I chose to read it. But, fwiw, I just listened to Mahler's 4th Symphony on a snowy/rainy/cold miserable day here in Philly while fiddling around on Audi... |