goofyfoot
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| Best sounding FM table radio ever made... I still use my mono, AM only, 1957 Zenith Trans-Oceanic shortwave radio. It doesn’t sound that great but I’ve always been a fan of short wave radio and baseball games. While Deutsche Welle and the BBC no longer broadcast to the Americas, many stat... | |
| How do I get a job as a headphone reviewer? With academia, I would write something related to my discipline and then follow the submission guidelines for whatever periodical I wanted to be published in. So I would think you could do a review and then contact Stereophile or whoever and tell ... | |
| Your thoughts on best audiophile speakers in $10,000 neighborhood? I had the Monitor Audio GS bookshelf speakers and they sounded pretty good. When I heard a pair of floor standing Totems at my local hifi store, I was highly impressed. In fact, the Totems sounded better than a pair of Focal floor standing speaker... | |
| Your thoughts on best audiophile speakers in $10,000 neighborhood? I’d buy a pair of Quad 57’s rebuilt and the time them with a pair of subwoofers. https://www.ebay.com/itm/175932650912 | |
| Besides the BBB how do you fight claim resolution against FedEx If the item was insured and you have documentation, then I would file a pro se lawsuit. Fed Ex will try to quash it but then you’ll just provide the documentation to the judge and the lawsuit will move forward. Most likely after that, you’ll get a... | |
| Grado Customer Service (Bad) @bcgood Well internet law says that the sale is in your jurisdiction, assuming you purchased them online. From everything you’ve explained, I’d be aggravated myself. Isn’t there a way to call them? | |
| Grado Customer Service (Bad) I had a good experience regarding one of their cartridges. They honored a warranty that had expired six weeks prior. It did take some time for them to get back to me but that’s not out of the ordinary. | |
| I wish Ayre made a portable headphone amp Me too. | |
| MBL Owners: The "Why" Behind Our Choices and the Search for the Ultimate "Wow" Factor When I bought my ASR Emitter II Exclusive, it came with a magazine that featured MBL, T+A and ASR. Having familiarity with Industrial Design and aesthetics, I was impressed by what I saw but unfortunately, I’ve not yet had the opportunity to hear ... | |
| on the cheap @knock1 That’s the cheapest thing I could think of. | |
| on the cheap I would consider a pre owned Bryson BDP Pi. | |
| Starting a Classical Vinyl Music Collection I mostly collect CD’s and file downloads but also mono vinyl. Roughly 97% of my collection is classical/art music. Arkiv Produktion is a favorite of mine. They are a historical performance practice focused label and division of Deutsche Gramophone... | |
| Best Covers The Bird and the Bee ‘A Tribute to Hall and Oats’. Never personally been a big fan of Hall and Oats but this is a worthwhile album. | |
| Portable DAC/Headphone Amp Recommendations Thanks to all for your input. I purchased the Cayin RU7 and a quality ddi usb c cable. | |
| DAC/Streamer/PreAmp MBL has a new product, the C41 Network Player; https://www.mbl-northamerica.com/en/electronics/cadenza-line/c41 |