kevvwill
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| Do You Love Music or Do You Love Hi-Fi? Peterayer makes a fun point: "I find it interesting that most contributers to this thread don't have "system" links. Nor do they describe their music preferences."I had the same system for 20+ years, and only changed it just now in the name of vis... | |
| Do You Love Music or Do You Love Hi-Fi? Probably the best answer is that hi-fi should be used to get closer to the music. Good sound serves good music, but you shouldn't need good sound to enjoy good music. The problem with dudus audiophilus is that if "some" is good, then "more" must b... | |
| surface noise and cartridge/ phono pre questions Well, just don't drive yourself nuts in your quest for knowledge. Cleaning will be the biggest thing you can do. Now that I've stopped buying vinyl, I just sold my VPI-17. It was a brilliant cleaning machine. Know that even with cleaning (all-caps... | |
| Sending pre in for service, need volume controller Buconero, don't know what a "Chase RL box" is, but it would have to be pretty spectacular to improve upon that First Sound passive. | |
| The best CD Player for the money Tough question, and difficult to define without establishing a price point. For some, "for the money" is $10k. For others, it's $900. Figure out what you want to spend and what kind of sound you like, then get the player that makes you happiest at... | |
| surface noise and cartridge/ phono pre questions I'm going to blaspheme here, and say over the years I have heard LOTS of phono stages, from mega-bucks to budget, and ticks and pops are ticks and pops. Some make them a tad less audible, some sort of float them out in the soundstage, others put t... | |
| Sending pre in for service, need volume controller Thanks, everyone. It's looking like it might not be too painful after all. I can make an appointment, overnight it to First Sound and be music-less for maybe 3-4 days, tops. I was thinking it was going to be longer, but Mr. Go seems to think it's ... | |
| Passive preamp recommendation to my system I got lucky years ago, and got my hands on a First Sound Reference Passive preamplifier, straight from Emmanuel Go. I went for the model without the bling-y (such a word didn't exist back then) gold knobs. Vishay resistors, point-to-point silver w... | |
| How Many Turntables Have You Owned A Systemdek IIX (I believe that's the right nomenclature), then Rega P3, then Maplenoll Athena, then Maplenoll Ariadne Signature, finally Thorens TD2030. The Ariadne was the longest run, at more than 20 years of great-sounding excellence. Barring ... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? Well, lots of people love audio by definition, from the folks tapping their toes while on the train, white earbuds jammed in their heads, to people who drive around the block, because their favorite song is on the radio and only halfway done.As to... | |
| Building analog setup-your expertise isappreciated Find a dealer that you trust. A space such as this will have as many opinions as there are snowflakes, each offered with the authority of a person who likes what he has. Only you know what you want. Funny example: I have a friend with really big e... | |
| Primare CD21 player In the "actually helpful" category, some more impressions:I fired up one of my favorite tunes, "Mocking Solemnity," from "Flight of the Behemoth" by Sunn ))). This is a song that's from a band that revels in the drone. It's a massive, lugubrious w... | |
| Primare CD21 player It's here, and it's brilliant. When people talk about the attraction of audiophile equipment, I always talk about a "lifelike" quality, meaning opening a window to the reproduction of a performance. That's what the Primare does. It's larger than I... | |
| Are CD players dead Indie labels are doing really elegant things with CD packaging, as are arTEEST types such as Bjork. Her "Family Tree" box is a never-ending source of packaging delight.CDs are a lot more utilitarian than LPs, but digital music takes the cake in th... | |
| How to "break-in" new speakers?? Just play them, and enjoy your music. In all of my years of listening to stuff, I have NEVER heard a significant change as a consequence of break-in. I once ran some speakers loud for a weekend (Vandersteen @Cis), came home and found that they sou... |