ghasley
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| new Meitner MA3 hit the rack today @73cuttysupreme To echo your original post, the MA3 is simply an amazing accomplishment. Many have been in the hobby for years…always chasing the next upgrade. For alot of years with digital, the last upgrade was good enough until such time a... | |
| Western Electric looking for consumer feedback to make new tubes @whitestix but at $6K for a quad of new WE 300b tubes, A new quad of WE300b tubes are $3k not $6k. There is a cost of entry to high quality SET. I’m not saying that Chinese 300b’s dont sound good but there is more to the art that costs $$ to ... | |
| Western Electric looking for consumer feedback to make new tubes @whitestix Their tubes are too pricey for their performance compared to the best Chinese tubes. WE300b, Elrog and Takatsuki are the three best 300b’s cuurently manufactured. I can understand someone preferring one of these brands over anothe... | |
| System bottleneck? How does your flash drive music sound when compared to streaming from your iphone? | |
| System bottleneck? Can you elaborate please? Are you streaming from the internet to your phone and then bluetooth to your Marantz? Do you have a server on a home ethernet/wifi network? | |
| System bottleneck? Bluetooth is quite compromised when it comes to sound quality. | |
| Any feedback on Sam Laufer’s Memory Player? @glory so sorry to learn of your wife’s diagnosis. Best wishes for a positive outcome and her full recovery. | |
| Electric cars will ruin late night listening? It will be a long time until electric cars are less expensive than their gasoline/diesel counterparts. The cost of the raw materials for batteries, et al have gone up considerably. Operating costs will depend on uptake and the power grid energy so... | |
| The panic selling of tube audio had begun. @jayctoy Upscale's site is up. They just dont have their tube inventory listed for purchase but it clearly states they have stock and shipments from Russia have resumed. | |
| Electric cars will ruin late night listening? In the not too distant future, the charging cycle (time of day) will get inverted. As more solar/wind capacity comes on line you will get to plug your car in for a charge everywhere…while out shopping, at the office, just sitting there parked,... | |
| What stereo equipment do respected musicians listen to? @mglik I didn't happen to catch which speakers are used by Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Keith Richards. Do you happen to recall? | |
| Will the used tube amp market suffer? A retread of a retread. The events in Ukraine are terrible and require the world’s full attention. All commodities move with market forces and and market forces are largely the result of supply, demand and the paranoia of the human being. You coul... | |
| Decware integrated My electronics use alot of vintage parts so their backlog is normal at a few months. | |
| Decware integrated @webking185 dang 30 months. you pretty much will forget you even ordered. I guess to some the wait is worth it. good luck to all waiting. There are more than a few Audiogoners who don't buy green bananas! 30 months...yikes. | |
| Architectural Digest finally shows audio gear! Architectural Digest article about the next big thing: Listening Rooms! https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/why-listening-rooms-are-the-next-big-thing-in-interiors |