charliecheese

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Describe your preference in a single sentence
The things that jjss49 and knighttodd mentioned describe what I'm looking for the most. If I were to add anything to their statements, it would probably end up looking like this: "Music reproduction that has great clarity and precision, a rich/f... 
your first system-
A light green General Electric 300 portable turntable with speakers. My parents bought it, so I had no choice. A piece of crap, for sure.  
The pope's rig?
I'll bet you won't find a vinyl copy of Too Tough To Die by The Ramones in his collection.  
Recommendation for Digital Coax
I now use a Blue Jeans coax cable and a Blue Jeans toslink cable for my two digital sources running through my Wyred 4 Sound Remedy reclocker. Extremely satisfied with both.  
Beautiful Music That Reduce You To Tears
Pretty much the entire CD of You Want It Darker by Leonard Cohen. Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun by Debussy. Gold Leaves & Shadows, both by Michael Hoppe & Martin Tillman. Etude 2 in A Minor by Philip Glass. Julia by The Beatles. ... 
Products you added to your system in 2021 that made most impact to your music enjoyment
Just like oddiofyl, 2021 was also a major revamp for me.  Things I kept: 1. Music Hall mmf5 table from the early 2000s, along with original Goldring MM cartridge 2. Vandersteen 2ce floor demos purchased in 1994 with stands Replaced several pie... 
Better CD Sound: The Search
henry53, mksun, billzame, and sandthemall mentioned CD players/transports made by Audiolab in this thread. On another thread I mentioned that I replaced some audio equipment this last summer, and when I did that I purchased four Audiolab component... 
The "British Invasion". A question for you old farts out there.
When I was a kid, I listened to the two AM stations that were popular in the Tulsa area during the early to late 60s: KAKC and KELI. (This was long before KMOD took over the FM airwaves.) Those stations were played all the time at our house, becau... 
A Newcomer to Digital Looking to Upgrade My Dac, Tubes? Ideas?
Last year we had a severe thunderstorm that fried some of my audio equipment. This last summer I took the plunge and bought several new pieces of equipment (including stuff for sound diffusion, noise filters, vinyl playback, cd playback and plain ...