fleschler
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| As A Youngster, What Unit Puqued Your Interest In All This? My first audiophile equipment was a Sony 366 reel to reel tape recorder which I asked my parents for after my bar mitzvah (my friends received $3K to $5K in cash gifts, I got $300 during the Hong Kong Flu season-invested in stock market until 19).... | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights My LP turntable is a VPI TNT VI on a Townshend Seismic Sink (with super platter, VPI power controller, highly modified SME IV arm, Zesto Allesso SUT, etc). I tried VPI and an all copper exterior ring (latter used for a few very warped LPs) and VPI... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" I used a VPI 16.5 since 1981 (with 28,500 LPs and 7,000 78s). Various solutions were used including one which used ethyl alcohol for LPs as well. Lastly Disc Doctor. Then I began using the Kirmuss US with drying in the VPI. With many used LPs,... | |
| Speaker that are 'KEEPERS" for the long haul!!! I see there are four other Legacy speaker owners. I have Signature IIIs in my living room and Focuses in my main listening room hooked up to a high end system in a high end custom listening room. The Focus speaker, for the price used (even in 20... | |
| Better Records vs MoFi I’ll let everyone in another secret, if one doesn’t know already. CDs don’t all sound alike, even though they could be from the same master digital copy. Especially from different pressing plants. I’ve been through sometimes six copies of a favori... | |
| Better Records vs MoFi I have sold about 18,000 records in the last 3 decades (I'm a listener, not collector per se). Tom Port's hot stamper LPs generally (95% of the time) are superior to MOFI reproductions. This is unfortunate because they do press quiet LPs. I've ... | |
| DAC Under $3000 Sometimes there exists different options based on the performance requirement aka, primarily for streaming, cd and/or sacd playback, or server playback. I use a custom built DAC for cd only playback. It has USB input and can do higher resolution... | |
| When Will the DAC Singularity Be Reached? My Emotiva DAC for $300 in 2011 was modified with 5 $47 Sparkos regulators, high quality Panasonic power caps, film caps, etc. and a Synergistic Research purple fuse. The unit comes with a fully discrete audio board without Op-Amps. The result is ... | |
| Tip for purchase new power cable GroverHuffman.com power cords has convinced/converted high end system audiophiles who generally were also electrical engineers who disputed the efficacy of differences in power cables on their systems once just one of GH's power cables were instal... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" With 28,500 LPs and 7,000 78s, I often must clean records prior to play. I used the VPI 16.5 for 35+ years using a few formulations including disc doctor. Then I bought Kirmuss ultrasonic cleaner. Much quieter and easier with just distilled wat... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? @gs5556 YES! @nonoise Sounds much like Kenjit doesn't this poster. @jasonbourne71 Your history does omit some important facts. Monster 300 (the original, not further Mark versions or Monster 400s) was simple in design and well executed. F... | |
| Why do speakers improve with more powerful amps? Among the finest sounding audio systems were those powered by medium powered Class A/B amps such as the classic McIntosh 225 and 240 (for mids alone-McIntosh MC30s). Generally speaking, low efficiency coupled with low impedance speakers require h... | |
| When are speakers considered Hi-Fi and not Mid-Fi??? I've been listening to mid-fi equipment and speakers for 5 decades now. It wasn't until I heard/experienced a few audio systems that blew me away. The first was 42 years ago at Michael Lane's home with 250,000 records. He custom built his equip... | |
| A SHOCKING DISCOVERY ABOUT DIGITAL AUDIO The responses are almost hysterically funny. Wow, a really funny forum here! Masterbaiter is Kenjit-I love it! | |
| Can a system sound too Holographic? @drbarney1 +1 absolutely! Three channel recording of orchestra provides the best orchestral sound reproduction. |