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Rogue 120 mono vs Hurricanes
Rogues used US Hammond transformers, one reason to go with them. Not sure about ASL.Cheers George 
What are important features in a listening chair
I would have added a photo but I don't understand how to do it here. Post it here, it will give you a short link to it, copy it and paste it in your Agon posthttps://imgbb.com/ Cheers George 
Charging A Fee To Demo An Amplifier In A Brick & Mortar Store
We need to be compensated. Simple as that. Hope this makes this clear. What a crock of ****, wait till he gets there, if he seems legit (a good salesman can tell). Then set the amps up on a system that’s all ready up and running. Charging to do t... 
A question for those in the know about streaming FM/Music sound quality
A question for those in the know about streaming FM/Music sound quality I used to be into high end FM tuners, all I’ve found with internet streaming is compression. If you have DAB or DAB+ (digital audio broadcast) transmission, it to me now is th... 
Charging A Fee To Demo An Amplifier In A Brick & Mortar Store
The seller has a retail store for high end audio. The seller mentioned that there will be an up-front fee for the demo if a prospect comes to the store the amps are not purchased. Ludicrous, tell him to ***** his amps where to sun don't *****.... 
Holo Audio May DAC
redwoodaudio Bill Evans’ piano on Classic Trio 1959-1961 sounded a little harsher at loud volume Probably just showing up the recording equipment of that era, as the they changed from Germanium transistors (yuk) to early Silicon not much bette... 
Member Almarg passed away last night
RIP Al. Condolences to Margret and family.A  saddened George 
Msb dacs why not alot of postings
I cant imagine there would be any major advantage to adding a high end DAC in the Kii system but would be interested to hear others thoughts. No matter what DAC you use in front of the Kii it would sound the same since it’s the Kii DAC that does t... 
Msb dacs why not alot of postings
Msb dacs why not a lot of postings No need to post anything, when you've got something like discrete R2R of this kind of caliber, your too busy listening to real music to give a ratz **** what anyone thinks about it or it's pricing.Cheers George 
Luxman LV-117 volume potmeter
@omemijk BX2 Means it a linear (not log A taper) with 2 segments to be stereo.I would just get a 100kohm A taper (log taper) Alps Blue Velvet, should do the trick will be in a little different (lower) in position for the same volume that’s all.htt... 
Msb dacs why not alot of postings
Discrete R2R dac’s say no more, if you have one, you have it all, pure music. "MSB" Most Significant Bit is what they’re all aboutCheers George 
LittelFuses Series 285 AUDIO/MEDICAL Quality
Na, just the same fuser snake oil s**t  
LittelFuses Series 285 AUDIO/MEDICAL Quality
read my lips, YOU GOT NOTHING 
LittelFuses Series 285 AUDIO/MEDICAL Quality
No you got that wrong, it’s more like don’t trust the "snake oil" or voodoo that fusers preach. Because they don’t have one respected Electronics Engineer that designs their hiend audio equipment that will back up their "sonic improvement" find... 
LittelFuses Series 285 AUDIO/MEDICAL Quality
"So why is there a belief that speaker cables and interconnects are not thought to be the same? Really!! you really don’t know, they have EE laws and measurements, things like resistance, inductance, and capacitance. A fuse is just a 1/2" of piec...