jazzguy43

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un-becoming an audiophile
buy yourself a pair of the better KEF or Harbeth speakers. They make music sound like music. Nothing will be spectacular, but everything will be at least very good!   
Psychologist dissects Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon'
then next thing you know 50 years have come and go while we are still fuking w/our stereo    
"Audiophile" Power Cables: The Greatest Audio Conspiracy Theory of All Time?
I miss Frank Zappa more than anything in the music world! waytoomuchstuff may be my new ZAPPA-ISH (to tilt my hat to George Jew--ish Santos) hero!  
A public service announcement
hey stereo 5,   I want to smoke what you are smoking!!!  
patricia barber - diana krall - holly cole
they do not hold a candle to abbey lincoln or dinah washington!  
New Western Electric 91E 300B Tube Integrated Amp REVIEW !
i learned more about the reviewer than i did about the eq unde review.  no mention whatsoever ofthe phono stage sound or anything!  
The MoFi Mess and TAS rolling over for them
The TAS and STEREOPHILE are just ENTERTAINMENT too me! BLISSHIFI said it all, $$ talks! I thought the 1-Steps I bought (Fragile, Blood, Portrait) sounded sterile, JUST LIKE CDs on VINYL! I shrugged it off as the product was deliberately equalized ... 
NEED TO REPLACE OLD FAITHFUL- WHICH AMP. SHOUD I CHOOSE
paragon audio fixed mine after arc said they did not want to mess w/it!  
How best to eliminate LP warps
hmmmm, if materials behaved this way the second law of thermodynamics would be broken! I encourage you all to read about entropy and IRREVERSIBLE energy! It is a fundamental foundation of how the universe works. There is a real difference between ... 
Old guy needs recommendation request for old CD players / DAC
find yourself a nice ARCAM CD37!!!!! you will be very happy w/it.  
Hot Rats
grand wazoo is even better!  
How best to eliminate LP warps
Friend, No! No! No1 The physics will not work for you. Once a round object is warped it is really not round w/an eccentricity of 1.0! Nothing you do will ever bring the eccentricity back to 1.0! In essence you will now have an ellipse and your lp... 
Help me tame my out of control bass
try a jl112/3 or a velodyne dd12/15. locate it on the same wall as your listening position but a ft or 2 out into the room. reverse the polarity on the sub then tunre w/phase control on sub. You will be amazed at how the room will flatten wrt bass... 
Total bass suck out at 40hz
try putting the subs on the wall behind your listening position and have them fire looking towards the fronts. Reverse the polarty on them and you will get a smoother response than you now are getting. 
What tube amp for Harbeth 40.1
go get an ARC VT100 mk3! works great on mine! My REF110 is not as good on the M40.1s.