decooney
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| Anyone listen to Music on a FM tuner anymore? @yyzsantabarbara The station that I love to listen to has an emphasis on high quality source material (when possible) The DJ’s bring in vinyl when they can because they say it sounds better. Nice! Yep, and when it occurs, you can sense it - ... | |
| Ken Fritz article @goodlistening64 "And don’t get me started on those identical grandfather clock sound dampeners!" The dual grandfather clocks ticking away with resonating cabinets and internal parts vibrating away inside in the background caught my attentio... | |
| A $250 Power Conditioner? Power line "noise analyzer" starts after 6:40 in to the video How noisy is your AC circuit at your wall plug... let the debate begin, hahah. | |
| Upgraded my cables and they transformed my system!!! Finding the right cable synergy can make a nice difference. Good for you. | |
| Ken Fritz article noted a comment by the kids in the article - “Nobody wanted to come to our house, because he wanted to put them to work,” said his daughter Patty, 58. “I think we went camping twice, never took vacation. It was just work, work, work.” | |
| Jim Winey (Magnepan) has passed away. Sept 2023 - a few months ago... | |
| Tubed preamps and Power amps- How old is too old??? With tube (non-transistor) Pre & Amp components, change to modern designs is not always better imo. Maintenance for checking and ensuring tubes, caps, bias - is required, periodically. My current mono tube amps model a basic design from 50 yea... | |
| Are Quicksilver power tube amps in the same league as VAC, VTL, BAT, ARC, ...? "@russellrcncom Czarivey: Agree. in terms of breaking down the 8407 monos were in a league of their own. They made me swear off of tube amps forever." 8417 you mean? Not 8407. After the supply of good 8417 output tubes became more scarce, b... | |
| Good measuring DACs vs. I sent back a few of the aforementioned great measuring DACs and kept the ones that measured worse. Another lesson in learning that listening matters, a lot. | |
| Speaker Pairing - First Watt F8 To @doyle3433 - nice, that would be a real treat and experience in the journey to be able to go onsite, and sit with the designer-creator of special speakers - and even listen to them on a well orchestrated setup [away from a show setting - if pos... | |
| Efficient speakers -- What was your journey from A to B to ? @ozzy62 ..."the current models of Heritage speakers are more forgiving and linear than older versions.". . Was glad to see this point, and wanted to resurface it. I tend to believe word and "belief" about the recent design changes are still g... | |
| Cable upgrades @jimboman ..." but sometimes I feel, for my ears, I’d love a bit more openness / brightness in the higher end." --- "...An update on my cable journey: ...1) Cardas Clear Cygnus (recommended by Brian at Cardas)". Yes, Cygnus will work as pr... | |
| Anyone listen to Music on a FM tuner anymore? Try listening to your FM tuner >> EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. <<. It’s amazing how it can sound even better with less airwave traffic going on. Fired up the Magnum Dynalab FM tuner early on the all-tube system today. 98 Rock never sounded... | |
| Efficient speakers -- What was your journey from A to B to ? On that note - Sometimes inefficient speakers need the volume turned up a little more to hear their full potential. Whereas more efficient speakers, and/or amplifiers well matched to the speaker, can be more effortless sounding, and at lower volu... | |
| Is toeing speakers a bad idea? @tomsch decooney mentioned something important that i forget about and that is to take notes which does help. 1000%, its amazing how many times we can test something, thinking we’ll remember the results each time, then comparing to 5-10 other t... |