decooney
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| WHY CABLES MATTER! @alaric62 "One uncle insists I should get Bose Cubes and an Acoustimess because "It sounds just as good". He’s never heard my stereo." And another engineer might tell you to scrap it all and get good headphones with a good headphone amp instead... | |
| Cardas Customer Service is Amazing! Founded in 1987, in business for 37 years. Great products and services. Return customers. Simple business formula that works. | |
| My experience with The Music Room @gnaudio 'This was through Audiogon." This could have been part of the problem and gap. Also, as per your post - life brings all kinds of unexpected situations. Terrible things happen. I'm heading to the hospital right now for my father-in-law... | |
| WHY CABLES MATTER! @akg_ca "Each side has absolutely NIL-chance of every convincing the other party to change their beliefs." Man aint that the truth. LOL 🤣. And, what’s even more hilarious and bizarre is how one side argues against something they’ve never act... | |
| Extra sets of Cables to switch up system? Yes, and particularly helpful when testing different components and speakers it can be nice to have a few different sets around to try and compare. Also seeing generalized statements and reports about Cardas here, having tried at least twenty di... | |
| Speakers, speaker cables or I’m getting old… @toddcowles while I'm not saying this is your specific issue, I have a local contact who's complaining about the exact same issue you are now and he also runs those same AA cables you have now, fwtw. Coincidence, i don't know. They did not have ... | |
| 805 SET Monoblocks @immatthewj I had thought about a set of the 211FEs and spoke to a few people I know who own them and most end up who resale them is due to them being room heaters. I had that issues with my last two Cary amps, fwiw. I've been watching the retail ... | |
| Anyone hear or own Musical Technology (Heil AMT's) speakers? Something to keep in mind. The beauty of the sound from the ESS Great Heil AMT is the lower midrange, imo. I worked at ESS Laboratories in the early 1980s, and listened to most of the models in that era, and owned several different units over the ... | |
| Looking for 50-100 watts of Tube Power (give or take) for my JBL 4349s @pdreher sounds like fun. My buddy had a pair of the MC-30s refreshed and ran them for many years. Pretty neat amps. In my larger QS amps, I found the KT150s need the right amount of plate voltage, bias, and transformers to run their best. Goin... | |
| Looking for 50-100 watts of Tube Power (give or take) for my JBL 4349s @pdreher i don’t recall if you mentioned this before, but have you swapped out the stock capacitors for something a few notches up in quality/design in your QS amps? The changes in mine and a few other members (8+) who’ve followed along have also ... | |
| Anyone hear or own Musical Technology (Heil AMT's) speakers? @toddalin fyi, they've been sold out of the full kits with Great Heil AMT and mounting kits for a while. Just for grins emailed them this morning to see when there might be more in stock. I may order a 3rd set of spare diaphragms too just to have... | |
| Anyone hear or own Musical Technology (Heil AMT's) speakers? "@toddalin Best I can tell, my pair came from a pair of AMT1Ds". Yes, that is correct, originally from the "1D" model series. | |
| The Music Room Make no mistake - you are paying for convenience and more instant gratification selling your gear to TMR Audio. This is an option some prefer to selling it yourself over a longer period of time in most cases. They are not going to pay you retail f... | |
| Upgrade Nakamichi PA 7All power amp with mono blocks @thriftyaudio I see so you’ve partly been down the dac merry-go-round. I ended up leveraging a bunch of friends and colleagues to narrow down my lists a bit more. You or others might prefer something different in terms of DACs, I was following alo... | |
| Upgrade Nakamichi PA 7All power amp with mono blocks "Fact is it's a tough combination to beat no matter what your budget is." Reading back over this. Another thought along the same lines of thinking... Yep, levarage the existing amp as-is, keep it for a few more years, at least. Having ... |