jallan
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| Buying used vs new? Just replaced the core of my system after 4 1/2 decades. New used Cary SLP05 with ultimate upgrade and a SST Son of Ampzilla II, both bought at half price and in near-new condition. Good stuff doesn’t break much, and is fixable if it does. Best ... | |
| klipshorn speakers I sold Klipschorn for a couple of years. That treble from the horn was sword sharp,the imaging gawdawful from the extreme lack of time coherence between drivers. Just not for me, though I imagine the distortion characteristics of lower-order harmo... | |
| Vintage vs New And far greater sense of dynamics. New stuff really is better. | |
| Vintage vs New Can only relate my experience. In the day, I had biamped Dahlquist DQ10’s with double subwoofers, driven by an Audio Research SP6B and either two GAS Ampzilla or else a C-J MV75A-1 driving the DQ10’s. Pretty good. But my modern electronics- Cary S... | |
| Need help valuing high-end power cables. Is this shop in Boone? | |
| Is There Any Reason To Buy A Reel-To-Reel Machine Nowadays?? I sold Revox in the 70’s, played around with both the A77 and A700. Great sound, but…tape wears, loses oxide, it’s mechanical, wildly impractical. It does sound better than lp’s, at least the direct recordings I made were. But what a pain in the a... | |
| How many of you are digital only systems? Once had close to a thousand LP’s, still have around 700. Haven’t touched them since I got my Yggdrasil, it really is that much better (Ariston RD11S, Grace 707, Benz Ace). | |
| Underwood Hifi / Underwood Wally... He is a great guy. I spent some time on the phone with him and we reminisced about the old times. Very generous with his time, and I would not hesitate to buy from him. | |
| Best dac under $2500 - comparing build quality and technologies +1 big time for Schiit Yggdrasil GS, greatest bargain in audio IMHO | |
| Old Amps that can still Kick Butt Adcom 535, damnable auto correct! | |
| Old Amps that can still Kick Butt +1 on the Alcon 535 amp, mine is a 535 II.My old but rebuilt GAS Ampzilla sounds really, really good, but my new SST Son of Ampzilla II is better still. The old Ampzilla has new 20amp Toshibas replacing the 15amp Motorolas for the output transistors | |
| Stratospheric audio gear prices If you follow Audio Research or Conrad Johnson pricing, you very much get the idea. Look at price rise for LS28 to LS28SE. Follows the stock market.As an owner of an SP6B and MV75A-1, these companies used to offer similarly priced products not too... | |
| BUI - Guilty Just wanted to add to my last post. Was replacing my Audio Research SP6B with a new used Cary SLP05 with ultimate upgrade worth the price? YES!!! What an amazing improvement in soundstage and palpability...so the upgrade bug can indeed pay off big... | |
| BUI - Guilty I was perfectly happy listening to a vintage Audio Research SP6B and a modified and rebuilt GAS Ampzilla, owned for 40 years and 46 years. But years of wondering how might better it be with better parts now available led to sudden acquisition of a... | |
| Cat Scratch Fever? Direct data of illness and death, not some contrived, assumption-based derivatives, clearly shows the number of minimum deaths from COVID. I say minimum, because the number of deaths overall, are well above what would be expected deaths plus COVID... |