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| What's Your Take on This ? Really? I had an original 535 and never considered it worth beans. I've had hundreds of basic amps, most of which I've made but plenty of commercial designs and I have to say that the Adcom 535 was utterly undistinguished. The original preamps tha... | |
| The Method of Tuning Hi Michael,Well, you did it there. Honestly, a lot of this hobby has long been about showing off how much one can afford. There's a lot of the overblown and pompous, not everywhere, but there's too much of look at what I've got and not enough fun.... | |
| Why have the prices of Marantz and Sansui speakers have gone up so much? Whyyyy??? Perhaps I should proofread once in a while. | |
| Why have the prices of Marantz and Sansui speakers have gone up so much? Whyyyy??? Well I rather like my old lattice grille Sansui speakers. Admittedly, they're all garage sale or Craigslist items of questionable parentage and minimum cost but given good tube amplification they can sound glorious. that doesn't mean that I don't ... | |
| high-efficiency loudspeakers Best? There is no such thing. There are too many variables for any absolutes. I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the Quad ESL 57. There was a recommended 25 wpc maximum on those if I remember correctly. Sure some will like horns, personal pre... | |
| 20 Year Old Amplifiers compared to 2017 Lafayette KT-550 ? Yes, I rebuilt a couple of those and their smaller cousins many years ago. They were really good as was the frequently disregarded Bogen equipment of the time. There has been a rampaging snobbery to the hobby for years and equ... | |
| Better Sound For Free! No no, phone, phoney, oh forget it... | |
| Better Sound For Free! AudioengrDidn't we just change there from the noise floor to the noise door?That argument is a little, uh, phoney... | |
| Better Sound For Free! wgutzWell, except for the psychological masking effect, on an absolute measurable basis, your noise floor has dropped but that discounts the Wife factor. It's never good to discount the Wife factor.For those in this hobby that have no Wife factor,... | |
| Better Sound For Free! If you unplug all your electronics you'll lower your noise floor significantly. No cost either. Give it a try. | |
| For tube sound, which is more important: preamp or power amp? I'm currently using a transistor preamp and a tube amp. Generally, that's my preference. I've built well over 300 hand crafted tube amps and to me, the amp makes more of a difference. There are no absolutes, such as "It's better this way than that... | |
| Missing shipment Okay, you've established that you have a winning case. If the fellow you're dealing with is a stand up guy you won't need any of that. He'll just refund. If however, it's not that easy, watch your time limits. If your Paypal purchase was funded by... | |
| Missing shipment Seriously, that's on the seller. If the seller had insured the item for the stated value a signature would be required. If the seller had spent a couple of bucks on signature confirmation there would have been no issue. There's also a geo-tracking... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? I suppose that's surprising to some. I stopped reading Absolute Sound and Stereophile many years ago when it became obvious that they were in the business of selling product with no basis in reality such as cables and interconnects at unreal price... | |
| Why pay so much? randy-11I used to work in 94107, that's by PacBell in San Francisco. The guys at Monster Cable used to come in all the time laughing about their new "Turbo" this and and whatever wonder marketing scheme they could come up with. Of course it all so... |