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| 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. | |
| Steely Dan UHQR My UHQR came in and I gave it to the wife to wrap and give it to me for Christmas. She claims I am too hard to find presents for...! She is also giving me a new MacBook Pro...! | |
| Have you asked yourself this question? I am about to turn 75 and got back into analog about 4 years ago. I had sold my vinyl collection back in the early 90's. I thought cds were the answer. For 30 years my cd collection sat in boxes and I decided to play them again. I really do not li... | |
| Power Cables - Third Party or OEM I built my own using Furutech components. It was fun and I could make custom lengths. | |
| Sansui? My very first receiver was Sansui back in the late 60's. I had that thing for 20 years I would guess. No clue which model but it was a great receiver. | |
| Anxiety help needed. New instal of Hana ML Looking at the pictures, I would just grab a Martini and listen to John Lee Hooker..! |