dgarretson
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| Are you using DH Labs? @thiefoflight With the Connex/DH Labs BL-Ag bulk wire I use KLEI solid silver RCAs and Neutrik XLRs. I have a hankering to try some boutique XLRs with this wire, but have not gotten around to it. My thought is that to obtain top performance fro... | |
| Are you using DH Labs? They retail for around $50 per set. I can't seem to get the URL to stick to this post, but the headshell leads are on their web site. | |
| Are you using DH Labs? I give highest marks to Parts Connexion/DH Labs Connex BL-Ag bulk IC balanced wires and to DH Labs silver headshell leads. It's all you'll ever need, well above the entry level, and all I need. | |
| All Things Must Pass Looking forward to purchasing the new All Things Must Pass. I also have the original LPs. On a modern system they reveal much better SQ and less wall-of-sound congestion than is remembered from listening during the ’70s. However the somewhat thin ... | |
| What Will Happen to Your Music Collection and Equipment When You....... At 60+ this thought was part of my motivation to transition to computer audio for CD archiving and sale. The long run goal is to digitize the vinyl. | |
| Tidal & Roon I forgot to mention that this is kick ass digital. | |
| Tidal & Roon With Roon you want a DAC that accepts a DSD128 or DSD256 source. The current Roon release includes an integral DSP software engine that upsamples to DSD256. I’m running the Roon core and Tidal on a SSD in a QNAP TVS-882 RAID NAS. The NAS passes Et... | |
| Changing internal cabling, anyone use Jantzen solid conductor? Of course with Rio Grande you're getting .999 solid silver-- a much more expensive metal than copper-- and at commodity market pricing, without the premiums applying to audio marketing. | |
| Changing internal cabling, anyone use Jantzen solid conductor? For internal speaker wires and external speakers cables I’ve used Rio Grande dead soft .999 silver foil inside McMaster Carr polyolefin heat shrink tubes. This compares well with Duelund silver foil in silk wrap at reduced cost. For long runs you ... | |
| Butch Trucks Dead at age 69 A friend of mine, a casual Facebook friend of Trucks, was chatting on-line with him the day before his death. Trucks was sharing memories of childhood-- sharing a photo of a roll of caps from a toy pistol, a story about catching a fish dinner from... | |
| Wilson Audio Haters In the words of Woody Allen, I'm afraid Bo is "one of those guys with saliva dribbling out of his mouth who wanders into a cafeteria with a shopping bag screaming about socialism." I'm outta this cafeteria. | |
| SME announce price increase Interesting strategy. GPB has declined 25% against USD over two years and SME prices rise 25% in USD. That's one hefty increase in margins! | |
| Selling speakers to a buyer in Russia? I would insist on a bank wire and a 1-2 week clearance period before shipping. | |
| New in 2017 Spinning Neil Young’s new Peace Trail LP. Fine spare acoustic and electric Neil, backed by Jim Keltner and Paul Bushnell. All new material including several songs on Standing Rock. Keltner’s drumming is just perfect. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hello Lew,I never made an adaptor for the B&O. I did find a nice Bulgin gold-plated copper tag that perfectly mates with the thin pins on a P-mount cartridge. If you need that part number I can retrieve it from my files. |