howardlee

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Please talk me out of buying the Avalon Eclipse
I had a pair, very briefly, in the late 90’s. Very pretty. They were unremarkable with my OTL amps that had been fine with my Martin Logan monoliths so I got rid of them. I personally wouldn’t cross the street for them, but maybe you have more pow... 
Balance on Tube Amp
There aren’t many integrateds with volume balance capability. I have this issue and was going crazy with all the vocals shifted left, solved with the PSAudio Stellar, then decided to get tube/SS hybrid and finally found Mac MA352.  That Schitt box... 
Can you recommend Jazz for some one that doesn't like Jazz?
Wow. If I were a guy who didn't know much about jazz and I asked that original question these responses, put together, would have left my head spinning!  Humor aside, if you like Mose Allison, you're pretty much already there.    
Please explain mono
I forgot to add, a number of "older" records, like those pre-White Album Beatles one were done in mono, the stereo versions mixed later.  Many other records from back then are in the awful "artificial stereo".  The first Buffalo Springfield album ... 
Please explain mono
Insofar as the mono cartridge thing goes, if you have a setup with two tonearms you are blessed.  Most aren't gonna have this, and even if you have switchable headshells most likely further setup is warranted.  Myself, I have found playing a mono ... 
Doozy of an amp question
@roxy927 I don't know about a lot of these amps but pairing AR products likely makes a lot of sense.  Outside of that something like a Mac seems like something of a sound favorable to you, but get one in your house with return privilege if you do... 
SL-1200 G Power cable
Well, there you go. If it ain’t broke…..  
Top 10 Live Albums
Pentangle---"Finale"  
Anyone take Tepezza?
Thyrotoxicosis is a disease of overactive thyroid hormone secretion which can have a side effect of exophthalmos (bulging eyes) which the drug company making that medicine for it has made up the name TED the better to sell it on TV. None of this h... 
What is the first thing you do when you unwrap a new vinyl record?
I have moved several times over the past couple decades and am now able to sit back and unbox the vast LP collection I have amassed.  When I was just starting out (in the 60's, no less) I had a GE fold-out stereo for a number of years that then mo... 
SL-1200 G Power cable
@stereo5, I got mine in November.  Unless there's been something I'm unaware of, mine is a new model!  
SL-1200 G Power cable
I felt like an idiot posting this thing in the first place, but the arrangement of the power & other connectors should have been changed years ago.  It wouldn't take much to knock that ground wire off, and for any of these hookups it's easier ... 
SL-1200 G Power cable
Thanks! Confirming my thoughts as well.  
a resonance in my left ear
Do what @mark200mph  said!!!!  That was a free consult!  Your best bet for finding a neurologist ear specialist is probably a university doc but you could look online. I think I remember you’re in central Wisconsin so you’ve probably got some good... 
a resonance in my left ear
You saw an ENT and had a cerebral scan?? How about an audiology exam? Did they do that? You don’t mention that, but that’s where this should have started. Once that’s evaluated then you’ve got a feel for what to do with the equalizer that would li...