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| Did I do a good thing or not? Back in my early audiophile years I tried an M91E, a Stanton 681A, and an Empire something in my Dual 1209, because they were $5.00 each at Korvette, and I was curious. I greatly preferred the Stanton. Later I enjoyed a B&O SP12, an ADC XLM an... | |
| A Black Box to Solve Everything Many of us have used tube preamps with SS amps to bring some desirable tube qualities to our systems, and others use SS preamps and tube amps. In 1973 as a college kid I ran a PAS3x with an H-K Citation 12. Later a Motif FET pre with av MV55 amp.... | |
| Help Identifying Vintage KEF Speakers If you have replacement value insurance you should claim around $1200.00. The KEFs you had were probably $300.00 or so then, and in today’s market, a pair of Focal Vestia 1s or similar would be comparable. | |
| Best Receiver? On the current market the Yamaha RN2000A and MAC7200 are your top contenders. Semi vintage, Nakamichi SR4A was outstanding. Deeper vintage, I rate the Sansui 8 Deluxe and Pioneer SX1250 tops. Really deep vintage I agree the tube Fisher stuff was g... | |
| TV audio into DAC via eARC or better Bluesound Node N130 or X has eARC and USB out. If you are buying such an expensive DAC, the cost is trivial. Plus, they are streamers, with a well proven app. This was mentioned earlier, but needs to be repeated. Get a Node! Another point…they ha... | |
| Inexpensive streaming amplifier If daughter wants to stream Apple Music and hear TV audio through a pair of Diamond 10.1s in an apartment, the right solution is a Sonos Amp, with Powernode Edge a close second. Sonos fully integrates Apple Music, where BluOS uses Airplay to play ... | |
| Stephen Stills Mwinkc, I’m with you on 4 & 20. | |
| So you just took a gummie...What song is on the menu? LZ: Dazed and Confused Hendrix: Pali Gap Stones: Sympathy for the Devil | |
| Moving on a sailboat - bookshelf speakers? The under 6” height is a real limitation. Find a pair of ADS L300E or 300CCs and drive them with a Rotel Tribute A11. There are several pairs on eBay right now. Focus on the music and enjoy the year of freedom from audiophilia nervosa. | |
| Curious to know what you guys think/like about Pink Floyd's early work In 1968 I went to the Village to attend a Cream concert at the Village Theater (soon to be renamed Fillmore East). I stopped in at the record store on MacDougal and Bleeker to buy a 45 of 'Spoonful' (still have it) and they were playing The Pink ... | |
| Complete vinyl system, TT to speakers, for $1500? Teac 3BSE includes an AT cart and RIAA Equalizer/preamp. Sells for $529.00 USD, here. Maybe less there…looks better quality than Fluance,with an SAEC knife edge bearings tonearm. For a small room, a Chinese FOSI BT20A is excellent and sufficient f... | |
| Canare 4S11"G" now available! Audioquest trains salespeople to their cable ideology. The “Metallurgy” phase teaches that higher purity metal (lower oxygen) has fewer crystal junctions per unit of length. The Ohno linear crystal drawing process is the end state of this spectrum... | |
| One Thousand Dollars Erik, I enjoy reading your audio posts, but on this…admittedly a matter of taste…I cannot agree less. Talking Heads was the last rock band I fully, totally loved before deciding popular music was not exciting me any more, specifically because of... | |
| RCA Y- cable or is an A/B switch required? All AVRs have PCM compatible Toslink or SPDIF coaxial inputs. Why not use one of those for the AVR hookup? | |
| How can you evaluate a system with highly processed music? Listen to and enjoy whatever kind of music gives you pleasure. But to form an opinion on the sonic accuracy of reproduction you have to use identifiably reliable sources. It can be any kind of music…polka, flamenco, marching band, bluegrass, Schub... |