chayro
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| Linn Ittok lvii Mk. II upgrade to Origin Live or ? I would stick with what you have, as you refer to it as "excellent". Many people want a major upgrade, but then set an unrealistic budget for major improvements. What phono preamp are you using? I was using a Project Tube Box II and the upgrade to... | |
| album cleaning solution There are tons of discussions on record cleaning, but if you are just starting out, I would recommend you purchase a 16 oz. bottle of Nitty Gritty Pure2 fluid and use according to the directions NG provides. If they look especially grungy, I would... | |
| Is anyone interested some Sonus Faber Amatis? The best way to sell them would be to post a classified ad with several nice pictures. That could work. | |
| Audiophile 'Attitude' 08-28-12: TatersI also had an experience with David Weinhard. This was about 10 years ago when he owned Ambrosia. I was looking for a tube amp and he told me that tubes were garbage and that I should come aboard the 21 century. I recently looked a... | |
| Looking for Silent Fan Cooling f my ARC Tube AMP Vornado Zippi totally silent. I was using it when I was keeping a tube amp in a rack with somewhat limited shelf space. I had the fan blowing upwards over the top of the amp so the heat would blow out the side of the rack and not heat the upper sh... | |
| Unusual TAS bomb Any publicity is good publicity, goes the old show-biz maxim. | |
| Recent equipment you hated, thought overpriced I had a set of those $800 Reimyo wooden footers. Got them here for a few hundred buck. Very nicely made and all, but I just didn't hear much value in them. Of course, footers are very component and system dependent, but they just seemed very overp... | |
| Selling dispute. Please comment. How much does he want to make it right? If it's a reasonable amount, give him a partial refund. I hate to say it, but I think I agree with Buconero - the guy has buyer's remorse and he's looking for a way out of the deal. | |
| Cable For Esoteric UX-3 Universal Player Try the Audience AU24. Very nice cable and you might bring it in at budget. Also, the Coincident Extreme is very good at the price. You won't often find them used, so I would give Coincident a call and try to work something out if you can. A very ... | |
| Recent equipment you hated, thought overpriced Audio oracle: I'm with you 100%. As far as Rolex-the last time they made a worthy timepiece-Jean-Claude-Killy was racing the tram at Chamonix!Rolex are high-quality mass-produced watches and are priced like mass-produced watches. I believe their e... | |
| B&W Matrix 805's, need amp, pre-amp, or integrated Bada DC-225. $1200 from Pacific Valve. 30 day money back and one year warrantee. I had the earlier version of this amp while I was waiting for my Viva and it was incredible for the money. Full remote control too - meaning input switching. I've hea... | |
| wall rack and different shelf materials under TT I don't know if all turntables respond to the shelf materials, but my Linn was extremely sensitive to it. I used it on a wallshelf and I found that a 1/2" Corian shelf sounded better than both the Neuance platform or the standard wood. Even my Lin... | |
| where to go beyond Esoteric x05 Icoum - Funny you should mention that, because when I had my X-05, I purchased a DAC2 to make it more listenable to my ears. One would think it would cause a ground hum, running ICs from the player directly and the outputs of the DAC, but it didn't. | |
| where to go beyond Esoteric x05 I much preferred the Doge6 to the X-05. I really wanted to like the Esoteric, as it played SACD and was absolutely beautiful. I kept it for over 6 months to try and break it in, but I just couldn't learn to love it. I thought the Doge was much mor... | |
| Esoteric SA-10 or Ayre CX-7e: Too close to call?? Sunnyjim - What value was Stereo5's post when he could not compare it to the Ayre? In his opinion, the Esoteric was "too smooth", but you might love it. Judging from your post history, you are just another neurotic audiophile, endlessly asking que... |