fsonicsmith1
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| Newest Audio Research News: 2.6M is not that much debt in absolute terms. Where it becomes sobering is in relation to total sales and profit/unit sold. With ARC there is tremendous overhead, few units sold in relation to many competitors, and low profit per unit sold. Grante... | |
| Best Tonearm for Thorens TD-124. I tried various vintage SME arms, a VPI arm (quite the rarity on a TD124) and then tried my first Reed 3P. Wow! As mentioned above, you can put just about any arm on a TD124 if you can find a way to mount it without fear of a mismatch. It just bo... | |
| Caveat about the Cable Company return policy For many years I bought thousands and thousands of dollars worth of gear from Steven and then he suddenly stopped responding when I had an order pending. I complained and was told John would be my salesman from now on. I figured maybe John was rep... | |
| Ayre CX7-E vs Rega Saturn; your thoughts please I hate to spread gossip of this nature but rumor has it that Ayre is in dire financial shape and I don’t know that it will find the same support that ARC did. | |
| Ayre CX7-E vs Rega Saturn; your thoughts please @joe2022 What made you revive a thirteen year old thread. | |
| Speaker recommendations wanted for Quicksilver M135 amplifiers No disrespect but loudspeakers should be chosen by ear and then a determination should br made as to whether your amp is s good match. I don’t understand asking for loudspeaker suggestions based on a given amp. The opposite I do understand-asking ... | |
| Audio Research in Receivership. I do find it surprising that ARC, facing such financial trouble, would be shelling out $50,000 or more to attend Axpona. I realize they shared expenses with Wadax but after you pay for shipping gear, hotel rooms, entertainment expense, I bet it wa... | |
| Audio Research Dog He wishes he was a Golden Receiver. | |
| Audio Research in Receivership. Jim McShane wrote me before the Russia-Ukraine war started that he could not and would not sell KT150's because he had to buy hundred to find five or ten decent tubes. If you look at his website now, he cites to advancing age and refusing to suppo... | |
| Audio Research Owners Worried? Anyone heavily invested in ARC gear who says "no" is either quite well-off or lying. When my Ref 150 SE blew up a year ago I tried to send it in for repairs and was told that they were so backed up with repairs that I would need to join a wait-li... | |
| Audio Research in Receivership. Going all- in with KT150’s was a mistake? Yes. Have you tried to source reliable KT150's over the last three years? Evidently not. | |
| Audio Research in Receivership. I own and love ARC but as I have said before, their decision to go all-in with the KT-150 was a mistake. Likely only one of fifty or more but still a mistake. The labor-intensive hand assembly of every circuit board and component here in the US di... | |
| New In 2023 And as a reminder, Robbie Fulks new album Bluegrass Vacation will be available on the 7th of this month. all formats. Providing Robbie musical accompaniment is the incredible lineup of Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Tim O'Brien, Ronnie McCoury, Alison ... | |
| Technics SU-R1000 - Good but not the king of switching amps I’m currently in Tokyo and had the chance to hear the R1000 at Dynamic Audio 5555. The amp was driving TAD’s demanding CE1 speakers. With volume at barely 8 o’clock, the resolution produced by the Technics was extremely impressive. The music was ... | |
| VPI Fatboys versus others in its' tonearm weight class. I did the VPI upgrade route too starting with a VPI Classic with unipivot 10.5 standard arm and ending up with a Prime with 3D arm before moving away from VPI. I did feel that the printed arm was significantly better than the aluminum arm, both of... |