glennewdick
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| Advice for shipping from Canada to US? As a Canadian who has shipped to, and from, the USA many times I would recommend you use either the postal service or one of the reputable couriers like UPS etc. Also ask for shipping insurance, it makes the delivery require a signature so no l... | |
| Does anyone listen to the radio anymore? I live close to three major cities on the west coast of Canada, Vancouver, Seattle and Victoria. All have good stations still. The Seattle based NPR jazz station is on almost every day. I found it took a good tuner to make the sound quality worth... | |
| Marianne Faithfull well thats a sad news she was a great artist. I love her live concert album. | |
| Jeff Rowland, what happened ? who knows, I lost respect for them when they started wrapping class D modules from another company in their fancy case work and charging ridiculous money. I’m not against class D in anyway, just against a company taking electronics from ano... | |
| VPI Scoutmaster Tonearm Upgrade Soren out of japan, better made then the Jeco's. | |
| Favorite Album Cover (picture or art on the cover) Funkcronomicon Axium Funk. | |
| MBL C31 C51 Interconnects? thinking out loud here; If the unit's mentioned are a single ended design using balanced just adds more in the signal path, circite to convert from single ended to balanced and back. if you don't need balanced for long runs it maybe better single ... | |
| Schiit Freya plus (Tube) Preamp into McIntosh (SS) C53 preamp? I picked up a Dave used for $8500 Can$ so they are out there, and like you said not a whole lot of a stretch mind you the TT is probably the sweet spot in the line and 90% what a Dave gives. That said i sold the Dave to help pay for a house b... | |
| Schiit Freya plus (Tube) Preamp into McIntosh (SS) C53 preamp? I have a mac C2700 tube preamp with the DAC2 board and its quite good, but a Chord Dave showed where its laking as it should for the money. The Chord Qutest gives you a good chunck of the Daves sound so i'm betting its a sound sig thing at this pi... | |
| XM tuners/ receivers kennyc "Been conflicted about whether to acquire - sonics doesn’t measure up to my current audio chain, would I be spending just for looks?" Thats a hard one to say, was that receiver you listened to restored? ( re-cap etc). Granted even a fu... | |
| Linear Power Supply Recommendations! petaluman I will see if i can did up the information been a few years since i looked at them. one thing to note the lab rated equipment has to meet very hi standards, standards that are not required for most equipment in the audio world, The... | |
| The $27,900 disappointment? Wilson Audio Watt Puppy 8 issues. Are they not a 20 year old speaker at this piont, i'd imagine Wilson has improved much since then. | |
| Linear Power Supply Recommendations! A good friend told me to buy a professional lab rated LPS as they are cheaper then Audiophile ones and made to a higher standard. | |
| Best audio prank ideas well for ideas and for sheer fun i recommend the facebook page: "Roase My rig" yup people putting pictures of thier system for a good old roasting. all in fun of course. | |
| XM tuners/ receivers kennyc I picked up a Kenwood L-02T based on their shootout That's an excellent tuner, I've never come across one though for sale. I have a Sansui TU9900 lightly moded / restored. I live In Victoria BC and listen to the Seattle based NPR statio... |