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| Which turntable? Pro-Ject or VPI? VPI and I am biased since I have the HW40 direct drive. | |
| Seeking Honest Opinions: Your Experience with McIntosh Audio Gear I had a McIntosh system back in the 80's and then got divorced and drifted away from audio. Now retired I got back into audio about 5 years ago and invested in all McIntosh C2700, MC611's, MP1100, MCD600, XR100, MPC1500. My turntable is VPI. I co... | |
| Power cable Advice... With that budget, you could build your own and have very adequate PC's. | |
| Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion. After seeing this thread, I went and inspected my spade connections on the speakers and amps. My amps are McIntosh and they provide a handy wrench. None of my terminals were loose after two years. McIntosh uses very good terminals and I have very ... | |
| Starting a Classical Vinyl Music Collection In my experience, clicks and pops are just in some albums and you cannot get rid of them. I have a Klaudio record cleaner. It does a great job but cannot get every click or pop out of an album. I use it on every album I buy whether new or used. FW... | |
| Do You Buy Speakers Without Hearing Them? The last two speaker purchases were without listening. i live 2 hours from any dealer. My last purchase were McIntosh XR100 and they were really designed to match up with the mono block amps I already had. They were better than expected. | |
| Easy Come Easy Go…….BOOM! I live in an area with frequent thunder storms and hail. Had to replace our roof last year. I am in the habit of unplugging my power conditioner when a storm is expected of course what happened here it would have mattered little what was unplugged... | |
| Anthony (Tony) Cordesman has passed away Read his articles but never knew his true background. A very intelligent man. RIP | |
| McIntosh dealer discount ? Most McIntosh units cannot be shipped by the dealer. You must pick it up face to face or they must deliver it to you. I was getting great deals from a dealer out of state till they were forced to only delver in person. I guess this protect their l... | |
| McIntosh is now inside a Jeep luxury car. The wife and I have driven Jeeps for years. We currently drive Wranglers. I have the 4 door and she has a 2 door. They are both Rubicons. We are in our 70's and just love them. Qs far as reliability, we have never had several Grand Cherokee models... | |
| What Holiday Gifts did you ask for or Give to Yourself? @veerossi I am also going to get the Gaucho album in UHQR. Have always been intrigued with the Umami Red but never heard one. I have the Ortofon Cadenza Black and it works so well with my setup. Hope you have a great New Years. | |
| What Holiday Gifts did you ask for or Give to Yourself? UHQR Steelydan Aja and it was fabulous on my system!!!! | |
| Are you on or off? What say you? About 4 years ago, I decided to get back in hifi after selling most of my system 25 years ago. I am retired and no kids so plenty of time and money to waste. I had a collection of over 400 cds in boxes and wanted to listen to them again. Now at ag... | |
| Any other Pipe And Slippers Audiophiles out there? Do not smoke but at 74 I wear LL Bean moccasins pretty much every day all day except when I leave the house. | |
| Ultrasonic cleaning I use a Klaudio machine and add three drops of Kodak Photoflo to my water tank. My water is both softened due to where we live and also reverse osmosis filtered. |