denverfred
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| How do you know what you're missing? You won’t know what you’re listening for until you hear it.Upgrade your most "suspect" cable and sit back. It’ll take 2 weeks or more for it to break in and you need to hear what that sounds like. What your favorite vocalist sounds like as break i... | |
| How to physically move large heavy 100lb amplifiers easily (up and downstairs) 2 kids + $20 = job done | |
| House buying and the aspiring audipihile I would encourage you to take a long look at basement spaces. Yes, in the South I think you would be looking for high ground or some pretty tall cable-lifts. Typical foundation walls are stiff enough to contain everything so you can “treat” the ro... | |
| Audio tax write-off As a former show horse owner, I can tell you to be careful about the division between your business and your hobby. If you want to write off your audio equipment for business use, that’s OK as long as you show a profit using that audio gear in 2 o... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Gordon Goodwin’s new album on Qobuz: The Gordian KnotBig band fans and anyone looking for a clean band recording with imagination—this is your cup of tea. One more goodie from Telarc. | |
| Am I too big of a jerk,even for audiogon? To quote Sheri Oteri on SNL: "Just SETTLE! Settle down now!”There are more than enough jerks around here to keep us all entertained. | |
| Lemons are an actual thing in high-end audio Tom: Good thing you hid the brand names of these components. Calling them “lemons” is really slanderous and you fail to prove the claim.In my experience, lemons rarely occur and what you got were units that you didn’t like, or were shipped incorre... | |
| Moving to France Don’t forget to visit Brussels. Lived there a while. Very generally speaking, the food is even better than in France. I had a voltage switch on my ARC gear at the time. | |
| laid back stereo power amp Another vote for Odyssey—not because it’s laid back but because your preamp could be. Amp sounds great. Built right. No class D. The designer talks to people. I bought my �Stratos DM from a guy that had used it for years with Maggies. | |
| Bluesound node 2i Making the switch from wifi to ethernet made mega-differences in my Node2i. Do it now. Even a cr-ppy ethernet cable will make a big difference. | |
| A Couple Little Things I'm Wondering About AG just censored my word a—. As in 'kick a—' amplifier.Clean it up, Katzenjammers! | |
| Qobuz vs Tidal After less than the 30 day trial period, I went with Qobuz over Tidal. SQ is excellent and I can trust nothing too gross is being done to it. Tidal and MQA are OK and I could live with it. I’m mostly streaming jazz and classical and Qobuz gives me... | |
| Ads (mainly ebay) for non-working, missing pieces, etc. items? Am I out of touch? As a former audio store manager, I must admit that I share your sense of disbelief at the state of the marketplace. When this virus trip started, I joined many more expert than I in forecasting plummeting used merchandise values—audio to autos. Bu... | |
| Never Owned a Tube Amp and Want Advice What you see here, ladies and gentlemen, is one of the more interesting effects of the demise of brick/mortar retail. To quote the President: “Sad.”I recommend massive online research and Bach.Used to be you could trundle over to the stereo store ... | |
| When suggesting audio components for friends and relatives... 1) Most non-audiophiles just want background music.2) Many do not want to see the equipment, or if they do it must be super-cool.If they’re good friends, you may know their music tastes. Try to get a gander at their music collection.When I was in ... |