curiousjim
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| Are audiophile products designed to initially impress then fatigue to make you upgrade? Well let’s see. My ARC SP9 mkll still works perfectly and it’s from 1987. My Acoustat speakers from the eighties still sound great. My Pioneer tuner from the eighties still works and sounds great. My B&O Beogram 1900 from the seventies needs... | |
| Apple Music vs. YouTube sound quality Doesn’t YouTube’s highest paid service stream like 256 MP3? | |
| Tune of the Day Rush, The Spirit Of Radio. | |
| Fiber to my Etherregen… Sonore OM or generic? @j_andrews As an experiment, I just bought a couple of the Ethernet to fiber boxes and they should be here tomorrow. I didn’t want them near my equipment either, but as an experiment, I only bought a 1/3 meter fiber cable. But I have some lon... | |
| Patio tunes At my last house, I installed a couple of Peavey speakers outside and ran the wires into the living room where my rack was. With banana plugs, it only took a couple seconds to plug them in. All the best. | |
| Recommended Server? What’s your budget?? I’m using a Bluesound Node N130 running USB to my DAC. I bought it as my starter streamer and kinda stopped looking. I did get a LPS for it and it made an improvement. Total outlay, about $1100. | |
| Female XLR to RCA? @blisshifi Juan, correct me if I’m wrong, but as long as the impedance of the amps input is at least ten times higher then that of the preamp it should work. Right? | |
| The problem with PLC I’m sure you could build a better speaker for a tenth the price. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Charlie Mariano, Johnny One Note. Some after dinner sax. | |
| Tune of the Day https://youtu.be/dMrImMedYRo | |
| Worth fixing? So how much do you want to spend on another receiver?? | |
| PUNCH 801S Huh? | |
| Western Electric 12AX7 coming this summer. Plus 1 6922’s. | |
| What's all the fuss about late 70s and earl 80s run of the mill midfi turntables? @clearthinker Back then all I had was a discwasher brush and a Zerostat. My TT was was a B&O Beogram 1900 with their best cartridge. I did try several of the record protection systems as well. I cleaned every record every time I played them... | |
| Jazz for aficionados And in the same theme, I’m listening to The Angelica Sanchez Trio, featuring Michael Formanel & Tyshawn Sorey. |