lloydc
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| What isolation feet under your amp with great result? I've tried various things, but so far, the hard rubber feet it came with worked best with my heavy tube amp - go figure. As many above pointed out, it really is trial and error. I like the suggestion above that good footers under the speakers mi... | |
| Classical LP & CD Collection - How do You Sell When Record Stores Don't Want? The record store owner was telling you the truth, there is virtually no market for classical lp recordings. Notice he didn't even offer you ten cents per record? No market at all for opera lp's. Not easy to even give them away, but you can try. | |
| Question For Those In The Know About Audio Research Power Amps Re: tube replacement costs. Apologies for the digression.when I bought a Mesa Baron c. 1996, they offered half-off the cost of new, matched tubes (I understand their tube-matching is second to none) to original owners. Not a trivial expense, with ... | |
| One-stop solution for vacuum record cleaner? Thanks! | |
| Why Don't More People Into Music Reproduction At Home Play Around With Musical Instruments Ime, real musicians rarely have great stereos at home. There are several obvious reasons (e.g., they want to play, not just sit there), but one is that music is not financially remunerative for the vast majority (see, “Rockonomics” by Alan Kruege... | |
| Youngsters these days. I prefer my 4000 or so lp's, but my son streams, exclusively. I bought him great earbuds and a portable dac for his computer, he's good. he told me a "dad joke": "My neighbors listen to good music. Whether they want to or not." | |
| Who are your favorite A'gon posters? a certain percentage of posters to this thread didn't quite get that it was an ironic April Fools' Day joke. | |
| What's the best isolation system? @mikelavigne thanks, that's interesting. | |
| How will the COVID-19 pandemic affect sites like Audiogon? I am not seeing fire sales on audio gear. I rarely see good gear really priced to move, even when people claim to really need cash.the concern that some small manufacturers and retailers in audio may not survive the recession, that just began, se... | |
| What's the best isolation system? doesn't "active" require a pump? which makes noise? So it changes the signal/noise ration for sound that reaches your ears? so the pump needs to be in another room? Mike Levine has an awesome listening room. My apartment doesn't lend its... | |
| Cassettes still rock! I have a large collection of bootleg cassette tapes and a Nak Dragon to play them on. A tape of a live concert directly fed from the mics to the deck, even on a cassette, can be really something. It's a form of "master" recording, not a copy, ... | |
| Mesa Baron Agreed, there was one cap in each channel that leaked; Mesa got a bad batch of that particular cap, they were pretty unhappy about that. Mine were replaced early on (22 or 23 years ago) Except for blowing bias resistors every few years, while u... | |
| Streaming For Beginners I have a good dac, and don’t really want to pay for the dac in devices like the Bluesound Node 2, or a $5K+ Lumin; Is it correct that all I would need to get Tidal and Qobuz is something like a $70 “KEiiD WiFi & Bluetooth (CSR 5.0) Wireless S... | |
| Cable burn-in questions. thanks for the responses. I assumed the circuit needed to be completed, but it shouldn't hurt to ask. | |
| Heavy Metal Anyone? a hilarious premise. if only SRV, Eric Clapton, Charlie Byrd, or John Williams had been good enough for heavy metal...too bad J.J. Cale only played a few notes per solo. Imagine how great they could have been multiplied by 20.many musicians, from... |