curiousjim
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| Free Tip for Jumpers I found most speakers that can be bi-wired have a steel plate covered with chrome or maybe gold to jump the highs and lows. Copper wire has to be better that steel, so I’ve been using jumpers forever. | |
| Beautiful Colored Tube Preamp ($10k budget) to Pair w/ Very Accurate Monitors (PSI A25M) Don’t forget Audio Research. They definitely have a warmth to them. | |
| Which has a greater influence on sound quality, the amp or the preamp? Through the Sixties through the two thousands, I had. separates ( with one exception). Everything I changed, changed the sound. I bought a Hegel integrated a couple of years ago and it’s great, but early this year, I went back to separates and I’v... | |
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| Jazz for aficionados So far today has been a good day. David Murray, In a sentimental mood. Bill Charlap, Street of dreams. Hampton Hawes, For real. Billy Cobham, Drum’nvoice vol. 1-4. Jane Monheit, The songbook sessions. Paolo Fresu, Songlines. The best of The T... | |
| Watts! How many do we need? @ghdprentice I’ve been looking at SF speakers and the dealer I’ve been talking to has mentioned several times that “These speakers need a lot of watts to sound good!” One of the speakers I am looking at is the Amity G5 and he said that it neede... | |
| YouTube star Jay loves McIntosh MC 901 amplifier There’s an old thread here on Agon, where he talks about all the amps he has had and there’s been A LOT! Jay figured out he could make some extra bucks on YT and the thread has closed at his request. With almost 21k of posts, there’s a lot of fun... | |
| Sonus Faber Amati vs. Wilson Sasha V (and perhaps vs. Focal n3) @soix @ghdprentice Sonus Farber, recommend and use only Mac equipment in all their demo rooms and I have heard from a couple of people that they tried what the rig they currently had an it didn’t sound anywhere near as good. I have been looking ... | |
| Help with high end bookshelf speakers @renosteve What’s your budget? What speakers do you currently have? The PS Audio FR-5’s are fairly inexpensive and the Borreson M1’s are not. Help us give better advice. | |
| Deal Alert What a great deal! | |
| Speaker Slip Covers @allenf1963 Do you live anywhere near a military base? Off base, there is always a seamstress near by to change a patch or fix a tear. Back in the day, my mom would take old cotton sheets and make what ever I needed. All the best. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Just watched a video of the Gonzalo Rubalcaba Trio from 1991 and it was great! | |
| Sonus Faber Question I have been trying to hear the Sonus Farber Amati for months now and am getting very frustrated. No one in my state has a demo pair to listen to and I’ve tried several times to schedule a demo of the Lilium’s ( Because they were close) and severa... | |
| Help needed - Only one channel playing! Glad to hear that all’s well! But it sounds like something is loose. Let us know if it happens again. | |
| So, a reviewer just said something I need to talk about. I remember playing CCR, Cosmos Factory over and over on a red and white suitcase record player. Now I have newer equipment and I still like listening to that album. |