howardlee
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| Has anyone had an order fulfilled by Boltz.com in the 2024 or 2023 calendar year? Check out their website and you get a message about them being out for Thanksgiving and listing how to contact them. This is fraud, basically. I've got an unassembled LP shelving in my garage that ended up there when I moved back to Texas and no... | |
| System assessment... This is a special situation that I have experienced of late but that no one else is mentioning. Everything about your system sounds pretty good to me, but for us retirees thought should be given to things we can't change. Ourselves. If you consu... | |
| Wrapping power cords and interconnects with copper foil. Sorry. The Apple "I'm away and unavailable" monster got in there. | |
| Wrapping power cords and interconnects with copper foil. @carlsbad2 There's some humor involved in all of this. In the audio world, nothing new there, but I was unaware of the theory that shielding interconnects was disadvantageous due to inductive effects. How does that work? You wouldn't expect i... | |
| PSAudio Directstream DAC M-1 (refurb) vs Denafrips Venus II. Quick decision needed! @stuartk best advice yet! | |
| Acoustic Panel Help I would first put some sort of absorbent material back there, like the aforementioned blankets or even towels (temporarily) to see if lessening the reflective sound might be an actual improvement. It sounds like your Maggies are pretty close to t... | |
| Audio Desk cleaner.....still available? He said that in a very unenthusiastic way (about the AD). | |
| Audio Desk cleaner.....still available? Mike seems like quite a guy. Just the guy to do business with it appears (all I know is what I see in that video). I can't afford a KlAudio, though. | |
| Phono stage for second system Austin Audio Works Black Swan. Under $1800, solid state, minimalist design with on-the-fly adjustability MC or MM, balanced or not, complete lack of sonic intrusion. Check website and Barry Thornton, the designer, long time industry guy you can t... | |
| Audio Desk cleaner.....still available? I'm close to ponying up for the Degritter. I haven't seen anyone complain about performance or service and their website seems reputable, not to mention the pricey unit they're about to come out with that speaks of serious engineering. Final thin... | |
| Audio Desk cleaner.....still available? The Audio Desk info has me thinking about the Degritter, which has pretty limited distribution despite a nice website. It's about $1K less than the Audio Desk, but the main issue for me, assuming it functions well, would be reliability. I have to... | |
| Recommendations for MM Phono ~ Tube or Solid State I'm throwing in a vote for Barry Thornton's Austin Audio Black Swan MM/MC phono pre. Unprepossessing, to say the least, little black box, all the dials you could ever want on the front, under $1800 and incredibly neutral and given to on-the-fly a... | |
| PSAudio Directstream DAC M-1 (refurb) vs Denafrips Venus II. Quick decision needed! OK guys, that does it for me. There are some smart people on this forum. I like researching these things, but nothing matters much unless it's in your house with your setup. Hard to do that now; not like the old days. I'm usually too impatient ... | |
| PSAudio Directstream DAC M-1 (refurb) vs Denafrips Venus II. Quick decision needed! Just to add: the Venus is the 12th Aniv. edition. | |
| More potential bad news for some big names... There's not a lot of point to be made discussing what young people today are going to do with their money. Their seniors (you and me) grew up with terrible products and experienced a revelation when they almost accidentally found themselves in a ... |