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| Copy quality and purchase decisions: attempt at a survey @afisher Indeed, nice faceplate and smooth marketing...Well, that does give some assurance, and I do not ask for more when I need a dishwasher or a PC.But when it comes to audio, surely that is not enough for everybody here?I must admit that I onl... | |
| Burned Out @lowrider57 You are right, I stand corrected. | |
| Burned Out I would buy from Ukraine only what was made in Ukraine, or made in USSR. Looking at the list of Soviet valve factories, I see some 30-40 names, 7 in Ukraine. No idea which tubes they made. What was not made in Ukraine, was made in Russia, or on ra... | |
| How do Bang and Olufsen stereo sound? I recently almost got a pair of Beolab 5. One speaker was not self-calibrating correctly, so I withdrew, but not before listening to them.I liked the sound very much. For me the strengths more than outweighted weaknesses, and I liked the design.At... | |
| Pass Labs D1 Amorstereo,Thank you for reassurance!Mine is 2nd hand, I wonder if the warranty is transferable, and whether it applies globally (I’m in Belgium), but I will surely find out. | |
| Can the need for novelty and change be mitigated by rotation? @lancelock It’s an interesting amp, indeed surprisingly light (my “hificollective” Glasshouse 300B is some 25 kg/ 55 lbs; sturdy steel chassis, but the real weight is transformers).Thank you for the tip on cathedral ceiling. It must alter ceiling ... | |
| Can the need for novelty and change be mitigated by rotation? Part of my premise is a question if past some threshold we can meaningfully speak about “better”.There is a broad agreement on what sounds poor (for instance, we had Grundig “Party Center 2200” when I was a teenager; fine for radio news, orherwise... | |
| Pass Labs D1 Hello,Reviving this after a long while. Not too many D1s out there, I guess.I have one, PCM63 variety, which I need to fix (one day one channel developed a strange loud noise and got quieter than the other). I have not compared too many DACs, but ... | |
| Can the need for novelty and change be mitigated by rotation? Thank you, good points!Once I try a bigger room, I am unwilling to go back to a smaller one. And I would not want equipment to spread too much; also I am unwilling to adapt the room too much. And no caves for me, please!!! Equipment must be neat e... | |
| Who else is using old cables/interconnects, and is happy? I have some XLR interconnects which came with my Mark Levinson 27 and 28 purchase. The seller had bought the MLs second hand, for all I know the cables came with the MLs, and reportedly were supplied by ML or their dealer; anyway, they are old, ye... | |
| buget used amp ? I would add Parasound HCA 2200 mk2 to the list.Also, there is PAS 2002PCA, sold new by thomannmusic.It’s a PA amp, speakon and xlr connections only, still I tried it on the account of the positive user reviews, and I kept it. Not as powerful and w... | |
| Horn speakers , high efficiency but not “shouty” From my personal experience I can only confirm that Lowthers are shouty.Nevertheless, SET amp tames that down to acceptable levels. I used 15 Ohm Lowther DX2 in home-made Fidelio enclosures for quite some time before I wanted a change, and I still... | |
| Need preamp suggestion I have a Mark Levinson no. 28 since fall, and I am very satisfied with it. I used to have Promitheus TVC passive attenuators (transformers, EI cores, separate L and R passive preamps), I was quite content, yet ML proved to be a big subjective impr... | |
| Better Records White Hot Stampers: Now the Story Can Be Told! This whole thing is very interesting.And scary.If anything, this cements my adherence to CDs (this LP quality issue does not seem to be entirely healthy/sane).But “who am I to blow against the wind” ;-) | |
| Had an epiphany, what would happen when all of you die? I think that Beolab 90 are on to something - different modes for different needs and different recordings.I use old MBL 101 and recent Gradient 1.5 Helsinki. Besides different bass (I clearly prefer dipoles), some recordings benefit from omnidirec... |