larsman

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@riaa_award_collectors_on_facebook + 1 - from what I've seen, PayPal usually has an option to pay via your credit card, and that's what I do....   
Chevy Silverado Truck Spanish Ads on Audiogon
I've never seen that....   
Ø Audio anyone?
@alexbpm + 1 - I also guess that this speaker company doesn't care too much about their English-speaking potential customers, as we don't have that letter on our keyboards and can't even look up the company's website. Sure, I could find some combi... 
Ø Audio anyone?
Consistently giving great reviews to inferior products will get them 'done' long before 'biting the hand that feeds them'. That 'unsubscribe' button would get heavy use.   
Opinions on McIntosh MHA200?
From what I understand, it's a very good headphone amp; I'd check out online and YouTube reviews and see if there's any kind of general consensus. Also check out forums on head-fi.com as there is almost no headphone action on Audiogon forums. That... 
Headphones for sound control
A dedicated headphone amp should generally sound better than the headphone socket on another kind of component. I'm sure Ayer does tell you that the Ayer headphone driver is very good, and for what it is, it probably is. But if it's not a headpho... 
Oh no, say it ain't so.
There sure are a lot of folks I've seen on many a forum over many a year who would answer in the affirmative to most if not all of these 10 points. A couple probably apply to me, too.   
Western Electric 300B Tube Problems
I have a pair of the newer WE 300B tubes in my headphone amp, and they've been perfect for the past few years; no trouble at all. But wow, what a difference they made to my amp over Gold Lions or JJ's; made it sound like the next higher model in t... 
The new dCS Varese DAC...it is so good that all others are now relegated to history??
That's one of those companies that sued a YouTube reviewer who said something subjective about their product they didn't agree with. I would never buy a product from a company that did that. dCS or MSB? Hmmm. They made it easy for me.   
A life sentence!!!
MSB S-200 power amp...   
New Fritz Speakers: Carerra R
@j_andrews - I had a pair of Carrerra BE's and I enjoyed them very much while I had them. I ended up selling them in a speaker upgrade a couple years ago.  @tksteingraber - Fritz is great to chat with, yeah? When I bought my Carrerra's, he brough... 
Shipping speakers from West Coast to East Coast
I'd say if would be reasonable if you got back to them and said 'If it doesn't ship within the week, I'd like a refund, please.".   
New Fritz Speakers: Carerra R
I don't know if he still is, but he was making a floor-stander for awhile....   
a rant
To me, the hobby is the buying and selling and upgrading of gear, where I'm actively doing something. I would never consider anything like listening to music or watching movies or reading to be 'hobbies'. Those are just things I've done for as lon... 
I'm curious. What is your "normal" listening volume?
60 - 70 db....