czarivey
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| Do Active Speakers Belong In A High End System? Omsed, exclude me from that list. When I lived in NYC, I didn't even think of having high-fidelity rig that I own now. It was good enough to visit Birdland, Irridium, BBKing, Blue Note, Bottom Line and many other excellent venues for sound and liv... | |
| AudioDesk Systeme Record Cleaner Jwm, you're very happy one on earth.It looks pretty to me at least. | |
| regarging components that have a 20a AC IEC +1 with RW. | |
| Vandersteen Treo's Long Live JohnyR! | |
| Why No Power Button on Some Phono Stages? Power supply caps with behavioural memory... | |
| Please help with Spectron Musician Issue. It's the most complex audio amp on planet Earth. | |
| AudioDesk Systeme Record Cleaner It's a nice unit, been thinking about it myself having over 10,000 records. For price of nearly $4k the warranty should be near Bryston IMHO + repeated reliability issues from owners... | |
| Peak listening levels- For listening 100db and up you can switch to DJ equipment. | |
| Why No Power Button on Some Phono Stages? It takes substantially less play time than stand-by to worm-up. My area is vulnerable to devastating surges so my equipment is always OFF when not played. It takes one full album to play (near 40m) and wormup of Musical Fidelity XPS and pretty muc... | |
| Vandersteen Treo's I'd vote for Wyred4sound STI1000. | |
| Bi amping question LOL It's possible, only ONE AT A TIME in case if you plan to keep B&K :-).Otherwise previous posters are damn right! | |
| Hearing issue My ENT does not recommend neither water flushing nor Q-tips. I block my ears from swimming pool or any swimming water with custom ear plugs perfectly fit to my shell(paid just $39 cash to audiologist for fitting and manufacturing) during my period... | |
| When do you need a power conditioner IMHO Never hurts to have one in any system. | |
| My awesome setup Technically, the answer is NO.IC chips takes long time to worm up because they don't work continuously. You can decrease worm-up of any DAC by playing music. As to headphone amp, tube ones worm up much quicker, but they're noisier which may be a n... | |
| Oh no , not another phono stage rec All tube phonosatges are noisy at any price point. AudioResearch PH3SE is the only hybride SS-tube component I regret once selling and hihgly would recommend. It's a true bargain for the used price. |