hilde45
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| Movie/film suggestions. I've been enjoying a Ken Burns documentary on America and the Holocaust (2022). It's on PBS and other places. | |
| New remastering of Steely Dan's Katy Lied review by Fremer What I’ve read is that DBX noise reduction was to blame, not tape machines, but in the liner notes, FWIW, there are no complaints to back this up. The DBX problem -- and a crisis at the time -- is well established. There is still some problemat... | |
| USB Cables: beginning the rabbit hole My own journey proved to me that I upgraded cables too early. There's a good discussion here with a top guy at Benchmark about the order in which to upgrade components and the degree to which upgrades are likely to help. Cables are dead last and a... | |
| New remastering of Steely Dan's Katy Lied review by Fremer @boostedis Um, no one has mentioned the lyrics because (a) we know them, (b) the band is named after a sex toy in Burrough's Naked Lunch (go read it), and (c) this is fiction not prurient tabloid fact-bait. As for your mention of "knowing Becke... | |
| Best Used Tube Based Preamp $2k Or Under? This is my last correspondence with Kara (feb 2020). "Thank you for your interest in my products. I am actually taking a sabbatical from audio. I have been building gear solo on my tech bench for 25 years and need a well deserved break. I would ... | |
| New remastering of Steely Dan's Katy Lied review by Fremer I always thought it was something inferior at my end of the food chain I thought that too, but it's endemic to a lot of popular albums unless the artist wrests a lot of control away from the record companies. Part of it seems to be that Fagen ... | |
| New remastering of Steely Dan's Katy Lied review by Fremer Without judging any of the musical content, I find a number of SD recordings really shy of the audiophile mark. KL -- It's decent sounding but there is a fuzzy quality to the highs and the vocals are too recessed. It is better on this mix but sti... | |
| The Power Plant Regenerator debate drags on Every neighborhood has crappy power. (I work for a very large utility)... there is no "if" you have crappy power, you do. If this is true -- and I’d like to know HOW the average consumer can measure what matters at the outlet into which they wa... | |
| Best Used Tube Based Preamp $2k Or Under? +1 Erhard. I have always been interested. I think he's close to retiring so you might be in touch about how long to get a unit and follow up if any service is needed. | |
| An Audio Conversation with ChatGPT @atmasphere Since we're on the topic, do you think there is any perceptible sonic difference between a "pure" class A amp and another amp which is running in class A but will soon move into class B? Suppose, for the sake of argument, they are ne... | |
| OK Audiogon, help me out please Fritz carbon 7s. | |
| The Power Plant Regenerator debate drags on I’d be curious to try it if I could get a solid assessment of my power. Presently, things are really quiet on my line, but as the saying goes, "You don’t know what you don’t know." Paul at PS Audio takes ASR seriously. He doesn't agree with them,... | |
| Best Used Tube Based Preamp $2k Or Under? Rogue RP-5 for $1450 is a great deal -- but for me, it's not a 6SN7 tube but four 12AU7/ECC82. Different sound. Perhaps OP will like though. Well made, good company, great price and resale potential. | |
| Best Used Tube Based Preamp $2k Or Under? IMHO: I've never heard a Schiit preamp that competes with the most of the options suggested to you. I'd skip Schiit for a tube preamp. | |
| Amp suggestion for Merlin TSM speakers OP, the key (if I may) is in what I said: Impedance: 8 ohms nominal, 6.5 ohms minimum, 14 ohms at crossover point Sensitivity: 87 dB, 1W/1m (2.83V) Again: with a 6.5 ohm minimum impedance, they should NOT be hard for a wide variety of amps to dr... |