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| Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice Linda has an amazing career and voice!! I lost my Dad to Super Necular Palsy With the Canadian health care system, it took them almost three years to figure out what he had.This was back in 1999 It's a very rare disease | |
| Looking for recommendations for a 'warm' sounding DAC Not mentioned too often, but my Exogal Comet Dac really helped cure of my listening fatigue with my current audio system. Very high engineering pedigree involved with this companyand its products. | |
| Opinions what are the best floor standing speakers in these ranges $$?? The Ascend Acoustics Model CBM 170-SE bookshelf are on sale right now, from $348 to $298 pair I like that they have the soft dome tweeter. Match them with a good Sub down the road and that might be just the ticket Hand assembled and tested in the ... | |
| Tubes @roberjerman I bought my VAC PA 80 80 new in 1994, so would that make it vintage? If so does that also make me vintage?? : ) it still has the original KT88's and 12AU7A/E82CC Golden Dragons and are working fine so far. Not sure what I would use... | |
| Linear Power supplies for DACs...? My Exogal Comet DAC has an optional power supply and according to Exogal : It provides plenty of power to stretch out and render the highest highs, drive the deepest bass, and lets the Comet provide the richest, most authentic sound stage of any D... | |
| A change in efficiency to the final sound @saki70 it might be awhile before I get my Magnapan 0.7's More than likely another 6 weeks : ( But I will post my findings for what it's worth : ) I found this on my VAC PA 80 80 manual, I had to sent it in and the UPS guy might of been mad at ... | |
| Streamers While based on your healthy audio budget, you might want to consider the (top shelf) RocknaWave Dream Net that will do what you want and maybe even more than you had considered. | |
| A change in efficiency to the final sound As in life, everything is a trade offGood discussion on PP vs SETWatch "Single-Ended Vs. Push-Pull Tube Amplifiers https://youtu.be/zSJlyTgpsd0Before I convert my VAC from triode to PPl will use the same speaker tap ( 4 ohm)and listen to the speak... | |
| fair complaint about Audiogon, violating no guidelines, removed @jw944ts I think it's great you are trying to give us a heads up! Sorry but can't help notice the 944ts........I just sold a nice 944ts in keeping with forum, it had a nice stereo : ) | |
| A change in efficiency to the final sound Maybe I can have some input on this as I'll be added a pair of Maganapan 0.7 speakers in a few weeks to my system. Currently I'm using a VAC PA 80 80 set in triode mode with a ARC LS15 pre amp that drive my Definitive technology Mythos ST speakers... | |
| What player to stream Amazon HD with? The Audiolab 6000n will stream Amazon music HD right from your phone etc. Price is around $600us I'm very close to ordering one myselfOh yeah it has a pretty good internal DAC not sure if it's better than what is in the OPPO BD 105 which I also o... | |
| Selling a very rare album I saw Ian Anderson about 7 years ago in Morristown NJ My son called me up said hey Ian Anderson is coming to town let's go see him.My reply was, You have no idea who he is ! As I remember my son running out of the room when I started to play Thic... | |
| How good can it get, really? - my stereo sounds amazing! Kinda reminds me of the Porsche 993 911 Turbo that I owned with 600HP/ 596 ft lbs torque and could do 200 mph all day, but it just wasn't fast enough for me ?! How much is too much and when do you stop?? I don't have FU money in my audio system bu... | |
| Audio System Donation @tomic601 That's great as I've never been a hero before : )) | |
| Audio System Donation Hey I just turned 68 so I'm definitely playing on the back nine. I just ordered the Magnapan 0.7 speakers last week. Got my VAC PA 80 80 with ARC LS 15 pre amp thats been in storage for the past 10 years and figured out a way to set it up in my HT... |