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| Your first concert was to see who and when? This is a very fun thread. ;-) | |
| Buying used from Canada @jasonbourne71 You got that right. | |
| Buying used from Canada Folks, it’s a mess. The tariff situation changes from week to week, and CBP and carriers really don’t know what to do about it. Stuff from China, Canada, Korea, who knows? Mouser Electronics posts tariff fees on some items, your choice to pay t... | |
| What do folks do with old SMPSs? I confess that I keep a drawer full of them. They can come in handy when you lose the wall wart to something else, or you want to experiment with a little ARM-based gadget or whatever. | |
| Your first concert was to see who and when? Liberace! At the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh. I must have been about 12 years old. I loved music and I wanted to be in show business. My mother was...not entirely pleased, but she took me to see him. I was surely the only young man in an audie... | |
| Snake River Audio Signature and Signature AMps series power cords. I really like my Boomslang digital cable. I'm normally not keen on fancy power cords, but the Boomslang is such a pleasure to listen to that I'm tempted. I'd also like to try his interconnects. | |
| Options to improve digital sound I agree with the consensus. Keep the Mac Mini, it's a very handy thing to have in the system, but get a streamer or renderer. I'd recommend one with an I2S output for the Holo. Any quality renderer will have options for running Roon or Audirvan... | |
| Help please! Something amiss with my digital chain If you decide to try a preamp, you might consider the LTA Velo. It would mate nicely with the DAC. Even though the ZMA has a volume control, without a preamp you can suffer a lack of dynamics that makes the music sound flat and fatiguing. Anoth... | |
| the gateway product that turned you into an audiophile WVhen I was in college in 70’s, the campus radio station replaced much of their equipment. I salvaged some of what had been relagted to the dump, including a pair of two-way horn monitor speakers on the Altec model, two Marantz mono preamps and a... | |
| Sound right before song begins on vinyl, what is it? It’s called print-through and it’s a devilish problem when remastering older recordings. The master tape is stored in less than ideal conditions (like metal shelving!) and the magnetic signal bleeds through from one layer to another. Any LP that... | |
| Battle of the affordables None. My lord, SO many good speakers, ProAc, Living Voice, Spendor, Joseph, Acora, etc. | |
| Jazz for aficionados If jazz fans don't know, I highly recommend jazzwax.com | |
| Speakers for Mc240 Spendor!! | |
| Tube preamplifier lifespan What??? Paul McGowan said tube preamps only last 20 years? Where? When? He surely knows better than that. ANY component--tube or solid state--will need refreshing after 20+ years. But there's nothing special about tube preamps that would caus... | |
| Financial Limits of Tube and Op Amp Rolling With a device as simple as the Gremlin, you’re pretty much relying on the quality of the tubes to deliver the best sound. You certainly won’t get that with bottom-dollar, poorly-matched, poorly-constructed, noisy, microphonic 12AU7s. In fact, I’... |