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| What drugs do you use to enhance your listening experience? I have a friend who is wont to say: Smoking weed and then listening to music is so awesome -- it's like a drug to me. | |
| Jazz at the Pawnshop If you're looking for the Best Live Jazz That's Ever Been Played, then Pawnshop is not for you. Pawnshop is a remarkable document of the best players in Sweden on a given night at a given club. If you can start from that premise and imagine your... | |
| RMAF 2016 The sky won't fall, and we'll all still have a ball. There is no way that RMAF will suck. | |
| PS Audio PWD Mark 1 Owners? Jump on this, somebody! I'm happy as hell with my PWDII. It's a fine piece of kit. | |
| New Room (from House to Apt) advice wanted on minimizing complaints Go talk to them. Introduce yourself. Let them know during this conversation that you're a stereo nerd, but that you're into quality and that loudness is not the name of the game. Give them your number and invite them to call if they are ever bo... | |
| Moving From USA Overseas... Looking For Advice re: Electrical Service and Gear No way I'd move such a nice system all that way. Too risky. Better to find someone local to take care of your system until you are stateside again. ;-) | |
| Gimme the funk. Alexatpos, thanks for the tip on Mandrill! Digging into their catalog on Tidal now!My dearest flavor of funk is The Meters. Here's my desert island album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io0FzQqKYKQ | |
| Best DAC for CD redbook playback from a PS Audio Perfectwave transport For what it's worth, I'm so happy with my PWD II that I have no yearning for a Directstream. I'm using the Bridge II with fantastic sonic results, but the Perfectwave Transport hooked up by I2S should be just as good. | |
| B&W 800 MATRIX Great pic, ct! | |
| B&W 800 MATRIX Yeah, Ct! Still enjoying them on a nightly basis, and feeling thankful every time! | |
| B&W 800 MATRIX The 800s are 93 db efficient and drop only to 3 ohms minimum. They’re made partner with big iron, but I’m getting amazing results from driving them with a 38 watt push-pull tube amp. Point is, you can succeed with a very wide range of amps here. | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... To circle back with listening impressions on the Blacks in my DAC/pre: I returned to stock fuses for a few days to re-set my ears and expectations, then last night re-installed the Blacks (in this case with the R side of the fuse meeting incoming ... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... I my case, the clear winner is fuse seemingly reversed from current flow, such that incoming current sees the R side of the fuse. | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... I had a chance to flip by the Blacks in my DAC/Pre yesterday afternoon and had a night-time session after they’d settled in for a few hours. They’re now at about 170 hours total.Wow. It was like the system had bolted awake after a nap. In this new... | |
| Most Effective Tweaks? Huzzah for jerroot. Turn off the lights, turn off the display screens on your components, put the laptop and the phone out of sight, close your eyes, and freakin' _listen._ Cheapest and most significant tweak ever. |