jjss49
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| Experiences Selling Stuff On Audiogon? agree w you tonykey principle in dealing in used hifi gear is ’treat the other party as you would want to be treated yourself’... in describing the gear, in negotiating, in getting it done with shipping, what have you --- yet soooooo many fail at... | |
| Plus and Minus Recreating live music is a fantasy. What we do instead is, everything has its own sound character. Its not necessary to match exactly the live sound to create the impression of the actual instruments. The system is merely the last link in the whol... | |
| Does Power Cord Require Burn-In To Sound Good? for really good burn in / aging of the very best ac cords, it takes about 12-18 years, depending on gauge of the conductorso you better get started now!!! 😱 | |
| 3 budget speaker cable choices i have had excellent luck with canare 4s11 as well tuneful cables belden 9497 (they are made/terminated very well with high quality bananas in brooklyn ny) and sound wonderful | |
| Experiences Selling Stuff On Audiogon? as hilde says, audiogon and us audiomart (if you are in the usa) are the 2 go-to sitesaudio circle is a third but much narrower viewer/buyer baseif you go to any of these it is important to establish a good track record... means alot people are ca... | |
| Why is there no love for Prima Luna? @tablejockeyi too would like to know, anyone has done this successfully (pls supply spec of the caps) - i think the primaluna amps (even with tube upgrades) lack that last bit of transparency that the best tube amps convey, while still giving you ... | |
| As Advised, Starting With Speakers First. highampbuchardts are direct sale - so no/few showrooms will demohere are well done, accurate (imho) reviewsi mention them because they are voiced slightly warm side of neutral but with excellent sense of life and slam, they have truly great bass e... | |
| Filling speaker cavities with cat litter my old proac response 3.5's have a lower area of the cabinet (below the drivers) that allow the user to sand fillstuart tyler said in the manual to use dry sand for mass loadingbut for my skylan stands i use landscaping gravel or rice as the grain... | |
| Having A Tough Time Justifying More Than One Table @testpilot I have 3 tables because I have 3 separate systems located in different parts of the house. I might go down to 2 as one system is almost 100% streaming. i am definitely playing records a lot less as i am streaming sooo much more these da... | |
| suggestion for a SS class AB amp that sounds like a class A ... if such a thing exists hegelpass ayreare the purest sounding high power ss amps i have come acrossat lower power/current delivery level it is the audiosector patek se gaincard clone of the original 47 labs uniti have not heard a dagostino, goldmund, symphonic line amp i... | |
| B&W vs. Sonus Faber barry manilow is best listened to on bose 901's | |
| Hegel h590 or Accuphase e460 with Harbeth 40.3 can’t go wrong with either a big hegel or equivalent power accuphasesound wise they are similar, meaning they are absolutely superb, creme de la creme solid state - treble very similar, midrange accuphase a touch sweeter fuller, bass hegel better ... | |
| A question that defines the problem of shopping... yes indeed, store demos are hard to make happenso dangerous to go out into public or retail spacesthe point made about arc tube amps is a good one - i too have been an arc guy for 15-20 years now, even though i dabble with other ampsarc tube amps ... | |
| Hola Audio Springs DAC repair what george says has got to be itif the dac has a volume adjust function it can be turned off/on as sometimes people just use it as a straight dac into a preampif it didn't come with a manual you should see if it can be downloaded from their website | |
| Retubing dilemma @oldhvymec if you are talking about ruby tubes... https://www.dougstubes.com/brands/ruby-tubes.htmlruby is a rebrander, and sources their tubes from russia, china (shuguang) and slovakia (jj tubes - using former tesla tube making tooling from the ... |