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Dealers That Sell Large Volumes of Used Gear Online
High End Electronics- Alfred Kanz is also a pleasure to deal with I've bought several items from him. 
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Awesome stuff guys and I've always loved Art Pepper in terms of that West Coast jazz stye. Any other cool mellow west coast stuff you all can hip me to? Cheers and happy Friday all! 
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It was very enjoyable Frank some fine playing all around! Also liked Toots Sweet by Conte Candiolo and not listening to Manhattan by Alan Barnes with the David Newman Trio and special guest Conte. Great stuff thanks! 
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Frank thanks for the Conte Candoli rec never heard of it before, it's queued up next! 
Amps Atma-Sphere M-60 Mono blocks OTL design
ozzy between this and your graphene contact stuff experiment I think we need to dub you "The Tinkerer"! Not sure I've ever seen someone do so much to their system in such a short period of time ;-) glad you're having fun and keep keeping us posted! 
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Charles thanks for the rec checking out Jason Marsalis tonight! 
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@charles1dad  Since you were so kind as to introduce me to Jay Hoggard, check out his release "Harlem Heiroglyphs" I found it on Tidal and it's excellent. Good upfront sound and some interesting original compositions with a few classics mixed in.  
Vintage amps & power cords
Haha it gets electricity from my variac to my amp, beyond that I can't say what it does but for $1.45 my amp does sound great. :-) For full disclosure all the other cords in my system are Cerious Technology Nano Signature. 
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Agreed Frank and my system is sounding pretty dynamite these days also, I seem to be listening more than ever! Never a bad thing! :) 
Vintage amps & power cords
Sorry I misrepresented the price tag on my power cord it's $1.45 not $.05 and it is a grounded three prong cord. 
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Frank thanks for the rec and great title LOL!  
ARC Ref 5se inferior to LS28?
There are a lot of good points here but the most important one I think is simply older can be every bit as good as newer sometimes better. Good design is good design, and well designed well built gear holds up well. Also a well designed point to p... 
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I'm with Charles here faith and religion being very tricky subjects which can tend  to divide us, music on the other hand has a tendency to bring us together. For whatever that is worth. Sunday morning classical with Bach Trios by Yo Yo Ma, Chris ... 
Bluesound Node 2 vs. Auralic Aries Mini
@lousyreeds1 Thanks for the info I use an Audio Note Dac-3 Signature which is certainly on the warm side. I also have the Sbooster power supply which I thought made a nice difference in sound quality. Lightning DS can be buggy at times, my only pr... 
Bluesound Node 2 vs. Auralic Aries Mini
@lousyreeds1 Thanks for that it's the first time I've seen an actual user comparison between the two! May I ask what Dac you're using with the Mini? And did you upgrade the power supply? And agreed I love Lightning DS also!