hifimaniac
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| Turntable Maintainance Thanks for the belt tips; boiling and alcohol; never tried them! | |
| Turntable Maintainance Wouldn't alcohol dry out and eventually crack a belt and boiling it stretch it out and weaken it? I am surprised VPI recommended that; as a former TNT own we I don't remember that one! Talc I do remember and used it often. | |
| Cryo'ed LP's I had Cryogenics International in Scottsdale cryo many interconnects, CDs, and yes, some LP's. Leave the cardboard covers home and cryo only with sleeve on. There is no moisture, so sleeve won't stick. Cables did take a time to break in again but ... | |
| Solid State Power Amps That Sound Most Like Tubes? Electrocompaniet amps are very smooth and tilt a little towards the tube sound; I am enjoying mine after Krells for years and VAC Phi 220's. | |
| Wilson MAXX MAXX 1's were a bit incoherent! When I owned them they sounded like separate drivers instead of a wall of sound; and the tweeter was a bit etched. They killed my Watt/Puppy 5.1's however. I agree that sitting too close they don't sound their best ... | |
| Has anyone Upgraded their ARC preamp Cmalak, I would definitely get maximum 3D sound with tube amps but I live in AZ and tubes in the summer would heat up the room too much; I owned some VAC Phi 250's for a time and that's what I experienced. I bought the Nemos for a little more powe... | |
| Has anyone Upgraded their ARC preamp I had the LS25 MkI and it was good, but had a veil on it compared to the LS26 I owned for the past couple years. I loved the LS26; ARC's philosophy goal is to capture the best of solid state; the detail, speed, dynamics and low noise floor with th... | |
| Vinyl presses on last leg? Pressing limitations st I better buy all the old vinyl I can now; thanks for the heads up! | |
| Does EAR324 phono stage sound like tubes ? Agiaccio, you've highlighted the wrong EAR phono in your link. The 324 isn't a tube phono. | |
| Does EAR324 phono stage sound like tubes ? The EAR324 isn't warm like a tube phono nor does it have the bloom around the notes that a good tube phono will have but it is still very musical and extremely dynamic and revealing. I owned mine for years and was very satisfied with it, but decid... | |
| Music you HATE the most but once you LOVED it I forgot Heart, Eddie Money, Huey Lewis & the News, Jimmy Buffet and Chicago | |
| Music you HATE the most but once you LOVED it Doobie Brothers, ELO, Wings (all McCartney post Beatles), U2, Boston. Listen to all the dead guys now from the jazz and classical catalogs! | |
| What makes strings sound "sweet"? A couple martinis! | |
| Which cost more: your system or your car? System | |
| SS amp - which one ??? I second the Electrocompaniet 220 or Parasound. Most members on audiogon have never heard an Electrocompaniet but they will and you will see it show up more on these types of threads. I bought the Nemo monoblocks solely on the reviews and it is on... |