howardlee
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| Leave it on? I have a Pass Labs integrated, class AB, and they recommend leaving it on. There's a mute button but it doesn't appear to be a standby. It still stays warm. | |
| Anyone familiar with Stack Audio Stabiliser and / or their turntable mat? I should mention that the mat's sleeve it arrived in said a record spindle weight of up to 500 gm is ok (my F/R is over that). Doesn't matter as I'm leaving the Stabiliser on there..... | |
| Anyone familiar with Stack Audio Stabiliser and / or their turntable mat? My Stack Audio record mat came. I've now compared it to the Oyaide, using the Stabiliser with both. The Serene Surface Mat is 3mm silicone, with 4 small nibs spaced on the record support surface. There's a nickel-sized circular cutout on the und... | |
| which turntable or how to convert to balanced phono setup? I’m being simplistic here, but if you have RCA outs with a separate ground wire into a phono pre with a balanced/nonbalanced switch does that work? Or does it matter whether you have a MC or MM cartridge? | |
| Anyone familiar with Stack Audio Stabiliser and / or their turntable mat? Well, that's timely. I just got my Stabiliser and had it on my Technics SL1210G all day in a comparison with the weighted clamp I've been using (Fern/Roby, 700gm) plus the KAB screw-down clamp I just got. I had done a mat comparison a couple da... | |
| Denafrips Pontus 15th, Pass Labs INT-60, and Wilson Sabrinas I have the INT-60 and a nice set of KEF meta floor standers along with the Denafrips Venus. You could hook that setup with lamp cord and it would sound great. I'd say get some inexpensive cables, maybe from BlueJean or such, then hook up with Ca... | |
| Encouraging people to consider a traditional 2 channel stereo system. Think about it. Let's say you got interested in audio in the 60's, 70's, even the 80's. What were the options? What would you have been into in the following decades? I honestly can't say for myself. In the 60's and 70's I was all into better ... | |
| the gateway product that turned you into an audiophile I think I was an audiophile as a teenager with my GE portable stereo. That doesn't mean you can't go from something like that to a revelatory experience based purely on sound. I had built a Dynaco SCA-80 integrated and had the Dyna A25 speakers t... | |
| Seeking Advice to Improve My Audio System ($1000 Budget) A lot of folks here are ignoring your budget. I would suggest a good used integrated like the older PSAudio Spectral or the newer one that has the phono stage. For inexpensive speakers get the earlier used KEF LS50’s (not the Meta, much less &... | |
| Make speakers disappear. Simple, cheap Just do this simple trick! It’s genius!! | |
| The Hi Fi Audio Quest: circa late 1950s Video a bit extreme but funny. We had an Arvin stereo radio on the livingroom bookcase, late 50's. The big deal with it was the new introduction of FM. No color tv yet at that time. | |
| OT: Espresso machines Go to wholelattelove.com The Silvia is a great machine. I had one for years, now with an ECM one. Any Barista grinder also. The grinder is paramount. No Nespresso, not ever. Get your green beans from sweetmarias.com. Not sweetmaria (porn site). | |
| What Meatloaf and Beer Have Taught me about Audiophiles @misc-audio. Easily the best damn post I’ve ever seen on this forum. Meatloaf? Love meatloaf, even bad meatloaf! IPA’s? Who ever thought of that junk? Hipsters? Well, yeah! Adding crap to beer? Well, then you just don’t like beer! Not to say other... | |
| Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too? Neil Diamond was singing “Song Sung Blue” in the delivery room (where I worked) when my third son was born. This was unforgivable (I never liked him anyway). OMG. Later I got to know Ron Tutt, his drummer, who, without mentioning it, I forgave as ... | |
| What artists can you not get enough of? So Far Aimee Mann Buddy Holly Carl Nielsen J S Bach Richard Strauss Leo Kottke Richard Thompson Kate Bush Beatles Ralph Vaughan Williams Stephen Stills Ludvig Van Beethoven Mark Knopfler James Marshall Hendrix Robert Johnston Ron... |