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| Music Server now bane of my existence Spent $4000 on one last year. Bought Oppo 105 last month. Any questions? | |
| Johnny Clegg "Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World". Never get tired of it! | |
| Wood glue method of record cleaning Just because something can be made to work doesn't necessarily mean it's the best way of doing it. This method may work 99 times out of 100 or more, but a 16.5 or some such RCM is many times cheaper than that INEVITABLE cantilever replacement you ... | |
| Purist speaker cables re-termination? All the above. Jim did a reterm for me years ago. Quck turn around and very inexpensive, viz msp on cables. | |
| Why do some audiophiles beat up McIntosh? I've done (insert various high-end watches and motorcycles here). Currently have a good watch for a beach environment, after others leaked or took 12+ months for regular service. A Harley (second one) again mostly due to lousy service on BMW, Apri... | |
| Armboard for kenwood kd 500 Lewm is right. I had the old armboard (it came with an SME mount and a pre-drilled, small hole center mount) traced and duplicated at local wood shop in coco bola (take your pick) and drill pressed while there. $40 including wood. What's not to li... | |
| B & W Matrix 801 S3 and tube amplifier Agree rrog . 110 wpc plus with levinson didnt come close in my 17x14x8 room. Give them 300 wpc or so and tons of current, and you get close. Would not think of tubes on any 800 series. Ive had 805, 803, 802 and 801s at different times with levinso... | |
| When your system gets a cold Glad I'm not just imagining this. My system is quirky to the point where it sometimes everything sounds like Peter Gabriels pressings (love the music, just sounds like they were mixed in a Sunbeam Mixmaster) and other times it's as it should be fo... | |
| Supratek is back I hope Mick has a more consistent product. I'd heard of erractic QC from real audiofreaks (guys who fly half way around the country to hear a buddies new cartridge), but I learned it myself when I heard a Cortese sound great and had to get one, bu... | |
| Amps that can Rival A Levinson No. 332 around 3K? I owned a 332 for a couple of years. I believe they are of an age where a recap/rebuild is due, if it hasn't already been done. That brings us to service, and I have a real issue with Levinson on that. Expensive and horrific service, lackadaisical... | |
| Room Correction/Crossover The TacT 2.2 series and later (which I own) and the Lyngdorf, I believe, include an amazing amount of crossover frequencies and slopes. I went from a complex cone based and stereo biamped system into a hybrid Sanders Sound System with 48 DB slope ... | |
| ADS L-810's way to bright? I've heard these marvelous speakers pushed with all sorts of stuff, tube, ss, hi/low, even Pioneer receivers. They are classics and some of the most adapatable speakers I've heard in 30 years. Re-Cap or look to your cables. It ain't the speakers, ... | |
| Allison One speakers Mid 70's. The other salesman at the audio store I worked in bought a pair in '76 and pushed them with his Yamaha 2020 receiver/ | |
| Tift Merrit on tour I guess I should reconsider my recent and extremely unpleasant experience I had when I was required to, for social reasons, listen to all of "I'll be your Tambourine". Please God, make it stop...Not since I was pharmachologically restrained, liste... | |
| greater resolution as an end in itself ?? About ten years ago I got to "the end" of the resolution chase with a certain system. Woodwind pads clicking, chairs squeaking, bad caps in mixing consoles, horrible sounding digital artifacts, poor splices, etc, etc.I had a fairly nice album and ... |