crustycoot
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| Best Brands Out of These-Wharfendale,Bowers and Wilkinsons... You’ll need 400 Watt speakers, mate! Or is that two 200 Watters? I hear Deaf Teck is good...have you tride a Poke? Ditch that Demon too and Get a Yo’Mama or a Man Rats! We in the biz got a million of these...Sansewage, Poisonear, Oinko, Drool,... | |
| General question about tube preamps and gain Perhaps relevant...I installed an attenuator potentiometer in my Akitika GT102 amp in order to lower its gain to match my Dyna ST70 (w/VTA driver PCB upgrade) to enable hybrid bi-amping (SS on woof, VT on Mid-tweets). The pot was supplied by the ... | |
| How many of you believe in MQA? Just a bit of clarification. Larry, your Node 2i outputs Tidal/MQA by analog RCA, with the quality limitations discussed above, and by SPDIF Coaxial, but very few DACs decode MQA signals coming in that way. The Mytek Liberty and Brooklyn DACs do... | |
| TEAC NT-505 - How good is it? To owners of the NT-505...now that Amazon Music is going HD and even Hi-Rez, does anyone have any ideas on how to use this streamer to benefit from that source? Do you need to wait for the Teac/Lumin app developer to add it? | |
| Bose 301 modifications Fix the foams and if you must tinker, add a film bypass cap and low ESR electrolytic to replace the factory cap. Better yet, get your diy kicks by building your daughter a kit from parts express. The Samba MT will set her up for a lifetime of list... | |
| Your Top Five Blues LPs, SQ-wise... Junior Wells’ “Hoodoo Man Blues”is one of the first real Blues albums and has very good if not reference SQ, but absolutely triumphs on music, which to me is important. I also agree with the votes for “Chicago/ The Blues Today” set. Very natural a... | |
| How much discount typically for a new MC275 to expect from a dealer? Another point...McIntosh actively prevents dealers from selling outside of their home market. If you haven't been to a store and gotten a demo, they cannot sell to you without risking their (very valuable) franchise. So "calling around" for a di... | |
| Double Advent wiring question... I remember a day spent with stacked pairs of Large Advents in 1974 at a friend's home where we played them one facing back toward his brick wall, and one firing direct sound forward (the top one). Created a quasi-dipole effect that was captivatin... |