curiousjim
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| Dickie Betts died earlier today at 80 years of age Always liked Dickey Betts. His guitar and voice talent made him a driving force in the music industry. He will be remembered and missed. | |
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| Jazz for aficionados Happily listening to Jessica Williams, Live At Yoshi’s vol.1. | |
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| FedEx - strange shipping progress (to UK) The best for international delivery is DHL. I ordered a streamer from South Korea. From the time it was picked up in SK, to the time it was on my doorstep in the middle of the states was 37 hours! I was blown away! | |
| Re: streaming recommendations for newbie @tlh28 I have a Bluesound Node N130 and for around $500 you can get a darn good streamer an okay DAC. As time and money permitted, I bought a better power supply and it made a big difference in the sound. As time and money permit, you might want... | |
| dedicated power receptacles for mono blocks? @61falcon If you can swing it, they recommend getting two twenty amp circuits. One got your amps and the second one for everything else. I just have only one, but it’s working fine for me. | |
| If you have a nice system why do you really need room treatments? @emergingsoul Your equipment does its best to reproduce your sources and that was all it was designed to do. unless your room is a sphere, lower frequencies are going to reflect out of the corners of your room at different speeds and it can ma... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Listening to Jane Weaver, Love In Constant Spectacle. Interesting listen. Not great, but worth a listen. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Listening to Hiromi, Alive. I really like most of her albums. There’s a lot of energy in her music! | |
| Am I right for this forum? @snilf Being on Agon is more than talking about equipment. I generally spend more time on the music threads than the equipment threads. Jazz, classic rock and classical music are 99% of what I listen to. Poke around, there’s a lot of diversity.... | |
| Is positive reinforcement why things are sounding better? When I bought my first tube preamp, a ARC SP-3a in 79(?) I bought maybe six different sets of tubes for it. Each had its own sound and I settled on the a Amperex 12ax7. Now I have an SP 9-MK ll that uses 6dj8’s and I basically did the same thing ... | |
| The Absolute Sound posts a video about a new product development from Magnepan, but... @yyzsantabarbara Good luck with the upgrade and please let me know your thoughts afterwards. BTW, would you also tell me your thoughts on the KEF KC62? I’ve read/heard a bunch of reviews from “Professional” reviewers, but never from someone wh... |