ghosthouse
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| Suggest affordable cable options Check The Cable Co. on-line to get an idea about prices. They carry new as well as used cable. I see Acoustic Zen Satori speaker cable listed at $708 for a new 5 ft pair. | |
| Does dry-brushing really do anything... I use a Hunt brush with a spritz of distilled water from a re-purposed eyeglass cleaner spray bottle. This is the kind of bottle you get at the optometrist and puts out a very fine mist. Once empty of the eye glass cleaning solution, rinse thoro... | |
| Tidal vs. Spotify B_limo...I use Spotify Premium on a MAC. Things might look different if you run Windows. At any rate, at the top of my Spotify screen there is a Help button in the toolbar. Click on that and a Search pop-up appears with several choices includin... | |
| up to $2,500 to spend............ SK - I use "double headed USB cable" to describe a USB cable with 2 A terminated leads joined at a common B terminal. One A terminal plugs into the computer. The other A terminal plugs into a power supply like an iPhone 5V USB charger or powered... | |
| up to $2,500 to spend............ skvinson - fwiw, I run a Gungnir that has NO USB input. Am using a double headed USB cable to separate power and signal going from MacBook Air to a V-Link 192; then from the 192's RCA out via digital coax cable to the SPDIF in on the Gungnir. Th... | |
| Amps which are Great, but either Unknown or Underpriced Opera Consonance Cyber 800EL34 driven monoblocks. Good looking, good sounding and reasonably priced. Not well known. Reviewed here:http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue34/opera_cyber800.htm | |
| Tidal vs. Spotify Thanks, kacz. I was not aware of those a'phile playlists. Great suggestion. Lots too explore. | |
| Suggest affordable cable options Consider Morrow Audio. 60 day returns allowed. They frequently have sales and you can buy used. Am running their SP-4 speaker cable and various of their ICs...MA3 & some MA4s. Have Clear Day speaker cable too which I very much like. The Morrow... | |
| George Martin RIP Czarivey - very interesting your ranking of John and George vs Paul; but I will not argue your elevation of Sir George in any case. Jerroot - Hear! Hear! | |
| George Martin RIP 5th Beatle indeed...(at least the 5th!) | |
| George Martin RIP I am very grateful for his contributions to popular music. The Beatles’ music would not have been as wonderful as it is without his guidance and many contributions to their work. Saddened to hear of his death.NY Times obit at link here:http://www... | |
| Headphone question Another suggestion you might or might not need at this point...Consider AKG K550s. I have these along with Senn HD600 and Sony MDRV6 (old). Listening to computer audio with an Asgard 2 and Audioquest Dragonfly v1.2, I think the AKGs are most neu... | |
| What is David Bowie's turntable? Historical significance and relevance to DB of Raymonda's rather clever PT reference possibly missed. | |
| Modern Jazz (as in recent) Music Suggestions Another vote for Kamasi Washington's "The Epic" as suggested by gsm18439. The only caveat is that while it's "modern" (a 2015 recording) parts of it sound very retro...like late Coltrane as per the Pitchfork review here:http://pitchfork.com/revie... | |
| I need advice on which speaker Blackjack - you mention auditioning is a challenge. 30 min from Phila. means 30 min (to an hour, I'd guess) from a number of brick and mortar audio shops. 2 that come to mind are Community Audio in Germantown and Quest for Sound in Bensalem. I'... |