curiousjim
Responses from curiousjim
| Four Hour Tube Amp Warm-Up I have never had a tube integrated amp and I’ve never had a tube preamp take more than 15-20 minutes and an amp take more than an hour to reach the “Sweet Spot “. | |
| The Good Stuff Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Ella and Louis. | |
| The Good Stuff @arcticdeth Thanks, We’re having people over Xmas day, so I’ll set them up as the background music. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? With the temps being so darn cold outside, I’ll be inside listening to only new to me music and there’s a lot of it! Stay safe and stay warm everybody! | |
| The Good Stuff @arcticdeth What are the Schenker “thank you” CD’s? | |
| Has anyone tried the new Synergistic Research UEF Performance Enhancer - Ethernet Filter? @discopants I tried a Netgear Wi-Fi extender and it kept cutting out. My Netgear Nighthawk router is solid as a rock and so is the Powerline 2000. I haven’t used the Wi-Fi in a while, maybe I’ll see how the streamer sounds. | |
| Speaker Hum Are your outlets really grounded? My house was built in 1962 and most of mine are not. A previous owner replaced outlets with GHI outlets for some reason and they’re NOT grounded! I had to run a new circuit to my listening room. BTW, have you tr... | |
| Why is everyone so down on MQA? Radio Paradise had two channels. One plays 16/44 and the other plays MQA and for the life of me, I can’t hear the difference. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Dexter Gordon, GO in HR | |
| Convincing your local dealer to let you try speakers at home There isn’t a company in my area that will lend speakers. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Grant Green, Idle Moments | |
| Kim Simmonds Has Passed @ 75. Totally sad! Just him in KC a few years ago. RIP and Thanks for all the great tunes! | |
| Has anyone tried the new Synergistic Research UEF Performance Enhancer - Ethernet Filter? I’d love to @discopants , but I have no easy way to run a hardwire. I could go Wi-Fi with my streamer, but not the Hegel. It has to be hardwired. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Keith Jarrett, Last Dance. HR | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Neal Young, World Record. Not one of his best. |