immatthewj
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| A stupid question(s) about power cords @audphile1 , without any sarcasm whatsoever, I envy your critical ear. Or maybe I don't--I can see where it could be a curse. I still have not put a full 100 hours on the new speakers I installed in my system at roughly the same time as the thr... | |
| Auditioning Used Equipment - Am I crazy ? This experience I am going to quickly relate is a lot lower $ than yours, but back in ’99 there was a local dealer getting out of 2 ch stereo and getting more into HT and he had an old heavily altered (to the point it would have been hard to sell)... | |
| Auditioning Used Equipment - Am I crazy ? Here's the problem for the dealer. What happens if the amp is damaged in shipping? What happens if you choose to return it and it is damaged when it is returned? What happens if you scratch it or otherwise mar it and then return it? @rus... | |
| Which has a greater influence on sound quality, the amp or the preamp? Yes, but there is always a point when it is time to upgrade speakers too. Yes, I am sure there is. | |
| Shocked removed spikes, used blue tack, what other non spike footer "Necro-thread revival festival?" - Does not exist .... Not everyone has gotten the memo yet. | |
| Does it have to sound good for you to like it? Besides, that's when true audiophile rig shows real class - when it achieves an impossible task of making poor recordings sound tolerable. Actually, @inna , what my experience has been is that the better my system became, the less tolerable po... | |
| Does it have to sound good for you to like it? If it is bad enough I cannot listen for very long. However, last night, in the course of auditioning/breaking in a pair of new speakers I started with Witches Bew (the Living Stereo 24 bit disc, NOT the SACD) and it sounded pretty good to me (and... | |
| Summer Power Issues Anyone else having this experience? It's been seeming unreliable, to me, here in Western Pa. I had my system warming up last night by playing background music while I was preparing a meal and pwer went off--I ran as fast as I could back there ... | |
| Which has a greater influence on sound quality, the amp or the preamp? but you would never know how good your speakers would/could sound if you don't give it a chance to be supplied with good input. +1 | |
| Shocked removed spikes, used blue tack, what other non spike footer Wow, you had to go back to a 5 year old thread to find something more to complain about? Necro-thread revival festival? | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? fusebox, 30ga thin wiring through house to outlet, and a 4gs cord will change water to wine? Nope. Who uses that? | |
| Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ? After 50 years in this hobby I’ve settled on the following hierarchy: Amplifier Source Speakers Cables Room acoustics... Blasphemy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
| Recommendations for really well-recorded music for high-end audio system demo Back in the '90s when I was being exposed to new stuff via a public radio station (91.3 WYEP) I bought Lloyd Cole's Love Story for Like Lovers Do (which is still my favorite track on that). (I probably enjoys vocals more than all else.) Anyway, ... | |
| McIntosh tube upgrade - worthwhile? Deja Vu? https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/jj-preamp-tubes-repeated-problems | |
| What was the most expensive record that you ever bought ? I have not bought an LP since 1982, and I don't remember what they cost back then, but I know that I wasn't going out of my way to buy quality pressings. However, within the last few years, I did pay a seller $100 for a JVC XRCD red book of Linda... |