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| Stanalog/Sugden gone from US? I hope not. George was a great guy who really helped out with I had a VDH Black Beauty damaged in shipping. The dealer just left it to us to sort out and didn't do anything except give me Stanalogs phone number. George took it from there. Thank Go... | |
| How did we get into this crazy hobby? I'm 52. During vacation in the 6th grade, I had $5.00 to spend at the end of a week vacation with parents. We stopped in a Grace Dept. store in Raleigh, NC, 130 miles before we got home. Figured I should drop the bucks somewhere and this was it.$.... | |
| Record Cleaning Machine The VPI. I used one for several years and "upgraded" to a Clearaudio Matrix: wish I had the 16.5 back. It was bullet-proof. The NG is a little primative. I never "recontaminated", but then again, I usually cleaned each side before play. | |
| subs and small room Absolutely. We aphiles nearly all try to cram too much bass into too small a room. With treatment (the room, not our neurosis!) measurement and best of all, high quality equalization for the listening position, it can be done, but it ain't a "set ... | |
| Give the new Kid Rock a shot. 52 year old grandfather, with Lowthers and Wavelength Custom 45s. 30+ years of high end fun.Barber, krall, etc. yeah, I've got a ton of that, Black and Shaded dogs, ECms, $30k in my turntable.I saw KR on the Larry/Santa roast (sweet Jesus, believe... | |
| worse entertainer or performer of all time?? Florence Foster Jenkins, the dowager soprano. Thank God she had money and could rent her own halls and promote herself, instead of inflicting herself on others. Yoko is certainly cut from the same cloth, but Mrs. Jenkins delusions were even more s... | |
| Why spend megabucks on a tuner? This is a rant after being out on Saturday and once more opening a new, and crappy sounding CD. I appreciate your tolerance.An excellent question, not just about tuners. As to your question, though:As an audio dinosaur, I'd lusted after a Mac 78 f... | |
| Moving away from tubes. Is this a good idea? I'm currently using Wavelength Custom 45 and Triton Sig 300b. Fabulous amps. I've had Levinson, Tekne, Pass, PS, ARC, BelCanto digitals, etc. The Jungson was one of the best, most useable pieces I've ever had. Well made, very even tempered with va... | |
| Tact Pre Amps 2.2XP Previous responses, dittoAny sacrifice in transparency is more than made up for by the time and node/standing wave elimination. 30 years in high end, straight wire guy, now proseletyzing for Tact digital and timing eq. Not just EQ, Rives does a gr... | |
| Shunyata Hydra 8 Manual Help If you know the sequence of plugging and unplugging, powering up the Hydra, then no, I don't think so. There are some hints at performance issues, but the main thing is how and when to plug, unplug and turn off the unit.Jeff | |
| How flat should my room response be? I really agree with Tobias, here. I used my TacT pre and spent 2 days "dialing in" flat response with a RS spl meter and then let the TacT dial in a flat response. Wow, did it suck! Unlistenably horrible. I'd serously rather have a Bose radio than... | |
| terrible bass response / unevenness problem. Big rooms are bad enough. Small ones are much worse. Two rooms, 13x17x18 (drywall)and 24x17x9 (lathe and plaster) were where I gained my experience as I struggled with room/speaker combos that had 12+ db peaks: understand that right next to that r... | |
| Tac T owner opinons I have an orig 2.0 with aaa/ddd options. Yes, the power upgrade is necessary. I use mine for eq and conversion. I have used it as a pre, (it's pretty weak) but my Emotive Audio is much better.Is that stupid to have a $10K pre on the back of such m... | |
| pet's & xmas Maxx, the sweetest Bouvier des Flandres around, has been really playful with his old toys lately, Kongs, Kong balls, knobby nylabones, etc. However, his rope finally fell apart 3 months ago just before his 2nd birthday.On a lark, on the 23rd, I bo... | |
| CAT vs. Aesthetix vs. Supratek - Preamp Choice I can only speak to the CAT and the Supratek Cortese, as I have owned these and a set of Pks 57 Quads. The Cat worked with everything, MM and MC, etc and SS by Symphonic Line and Levinson 331, tubes by Jadis, Audio Valve Callenger with cryoed el-3... |