dgarretson
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| Vintage Japanese DD Consult and Suggestions Please @laaudionut I have a SP10 Mk 2, PD444, and LO7D and would add simply that all three are great choices. Each will likely need to be re-capped if not already serviced. All are satisfying in stock form, but will benefit with addition of modern foo... | |
| Sonore Signature Rendu SE After several weeks of break-in, the Sonore Sig. Rendu SE Deluxe and Optical Module Deluxe (powered by Sonore's LPS and premium DC cable) sound superb. They surpass my prior SOtM SMS-200 with 10mhz clock link. Nevertheless there is further improv... | |
| Pure Silver Wire I've been building pure silver speaker cables and power cords for years from three-nines soft-annealed round wire or flat wire sourced from Rio Grande. The key to avoiding stridency is soft-annealing. A wise manufacturer of 4-nines silver wire... | |
| Movie/film suggestions. After a promising start Linda Manz pretty much dropped out of acting. Another one of hers to catch is Dennis Hopper’s "Out of the Blue"(1980). It’s full of improvised dialog, raw and ponderous, but not far off from Hopper’s Easy Rider in mood. Fee... | |
| Movie/film suggestions. Post election I'm leaning heavily into the Criterion Collection for relief, tranquility, and determination to escape the grotesquerie of the news cycle. Criterion was fortunately rescued from AT&T's decimation of Time Warner/HBO properties af... | |
| Tube Sound With Equalization? I've heard the Jolida expander at shows and enjoyed what it does in the analog domain without causing damage. At a much higher price point the Manley Massive Passive can make your system sound pretty much however you want it across four parallel... | |
| Sonore Signature Rendu SE Great to hear that. I have the latest SE Deluxe version on order, together with Sonore's Optical Module Deluxe and linear power supply. I'm hoping this fares well relative to the more complex configuration of SOtM separates I've been using for a... | |
| Anyone else having trouble with Roon? I purchased a lifetime Roon license, and have been running the core on a QNAP NAS since the beginning. No major issues, though I would prefer that for lifetime suscribers Roon would not require periodic revalidation of the license over the web. ... | |
| Bose buys McIntosh We might see some mid-tier McIntosh & Sonus Faber models enter the Bose distribution channel, but prestige branding for the luxury auto market is the big score-- and Bose has lots to gain here. Who is winning? Bose: Honda, Mazda, Porsche McI... | |
| Roon isn't stable and they edit their forum to hide it I've been a lifer with Roon since the beginning. No problems with 12K+ albums with the core on a QNAP NAS, but Roon ARC freezing on an iphone has been a wreck and not worth endless deletion and reload of the phone app to restore operation. I'm b... | |
| Kris Kristofferson Hi Jafant, good to hear from you. I'm in temporary quarters with all analog in storage, but still enjoying digital sources, a modified BAT tube amp, and probably finalized with ye olde Merlin VSMs upgraded with Purify 6.5" drivers with matching p... | |
| Kris Kristofferson To me he was very much of a man of the times, a troubadour, Zelig, and mostly back- to mid-field player with a light touch who showed up almost everywhere that mattered(in music Cash, Joplin, Coolidge, Webb; in film Peckinpah, Cimino, Sayles), bro... | |
| Digital LP’s Over the past few years of improvements in digital recording, I have been recording both analog- and digital-sourced LPs to DSD128 and become less of an analog purist.. I almost always prefer a vinyl-to-hi-res digital recording over a pure digital... | |
| Great song by the Clash To draw a rough analogy, London Calling was their Revolver and Sandinista was their White Album. Or London Calling was The Bends and Sandinista was A Moon Shaped Pool. | |
| Sam Ash closing Just as the long thread on Sam Ash was getting interesting the Audiogon moderator cancelled it. Outta beer, outta here. |