br3098
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| Yter cables direction I see. If it's the subject of a thread on Audiogon then it must be true?No problem. Please provide us with your proof or other evidence that wire is directional. Something that was NOT written by a cable manufacturer, if you don't mind. | |
| Yter cables direction >>>>>Exhibit A of not knowing what the word directionality means. To think some people accuse me of shooting fish in a barrel....🐟 🐟 🐟 “Not to start a flame war...” Funny! 😀 geoffkait, I'm pretty sure that I know what "directiona... | |
| Yter cables direction Not to start a flame war, but there is simply no such thing as a unidirectional audio cable using copper or silver as it's conductor.It IS possible to introduce bias and selective resistance onto a conductor through active (powered) means, and, of... | |
| clearaudio turntables theoriginalauthor1,The $ USD is not a weak currency. On the contrary all other currencies are lower. Here's a basic macroeconomics fact: a strong currency in the importing country makes imported goods more expensive. | |
| Tube tester: Orange VT 1000 I used to pull tubes from every item in the house just to take them down to the Thrifty Drug Store and test them. I probably ruined more tubes than I realized - it drove my Dad nuts.Drug store testers were "service tube testers" and only performe... | |
| What separate tube phono stage do you use ? Any chance of a photo(s) of the interior of your PAB Croft.noromance, I will do so as soon as I can. I painted the living room last weekend and have everything packed away. Now it's a rush to restore the room before Thursday.I used to be a dea... | |
| What separate tube phono stage do you use ? +1 on the recommendation for Croft. I'm using a Pear Audio Classic Phono, designed and built by Glenn Croft. It's easily the best sounding MM phono preamp I have ever owned and it plays nicely with all of my SUTs for MC needs. | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... Will no one rid me of this troublesome thread? | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... LOL | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... tangramca, actually I am a former (recovering) dealer. If I had the answer to your question I would probably still be a dealer today.In the 1970s and into the 80s there used to be dealers like you describe; I worked for one in the 1970s. But the... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... tangramca: If I was trying out a $5K cart, I would happily pay a hundred bucks (2% of the potential purchase price) to have it installed by an approved tech.I don't know where you live, but I live in L.A. A "local" customer could be 100 miles a... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... To my fellow Audiogoners,I apologize for violating my own policy and responding with reason and emotion to (what I consider to be) a silly thread. I will avoid feeding the creature from here on forward. | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... ...my Koetsu dealer told me that it is actually cheaper to fly into Japan for a few days, buy the cartridge there and enjoy the visit, than it is to get ripped off by the likes of Music Direct and their repacious profiteering with these cartridg... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... ...since many of you seem to have no problem with being completely ripped off in this endeavor...If you have a better way to offer high-end cartridges to the select few high-end audio buyer, please put your money where your "mouth" is and show us ... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... daveyf,Dude, you just HAVE to be a millennial. Good luck dealing with the real world! |