marakanetz
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| First Annual " Whaddya Get? for Xmas " Got punished by dominatrix in my listening room. | |
| The Hub: Is a Vinyl Revival in progress? It's much better than wires and tube vs ss | |
| The Hub: Is a Vinyl Revival in progress? How about taking out vinyl from the sealed jacket and playing it on made in China Panasonic TT with plastic platter and 7g tracking cartridge? Do you think that most 'revived' vinyl listeners would like to spend a few hundreds or thousands for a g... | |
| Tape decks - still of any value? good for little kids to play. | |
| Best blues vocalist Pre-war:(in Iraq) Tom WaitsElectric Blues: Tom WaitsBlues Rock: Tom Waits | |
| Best bourbon? Hello from happy consumer of Crown Royal that is in my abdomen almost every weekend at least 400ml straight no ice. No heavy withdrawals next morning as well. The language becomes a-little distorted after the 10th shot:-). Always order doubles at ... | |
| Kudos to Audio Research Jab,Bad tubes in certain conditions CAN damage the circuitry around if mistake had been made in supply resistor values that in fact should also act like fuses. The supply resistor should blow before the DC cap. After the DC cap blows the rest of t... | |
| Do you power your Class D amp on and off? off when I go to sleep on all the time when I'm up.I use Sunfire Symphonic Reference which is partially class D. | |
| About to pull trigger on JA Michell What will be your choice of arm?I use Incognito wired RB300 with Lyra Argo cartridge.For medium output 1...2.5mV I would suggest Audio Research PH3 hybrid phonostage. I used to have it and now still miss it but had to downsize it to a full functio... | |
| A/B speaker switching - advantage? I used to have Nikko Alpha amp that had this capability.It's a possibility to have speakers in different listening rooms. | |
| Where do you buy good CD recordings? 50%half.comthe rest is from local NYC stores such as 'Other Music'Good CD recording is defined IMO by the artist and album you like to listen to. | |
| Phono stages belong to which tier? analogue playback is as volatile as speakers.so it's tier 1.1. | |
| Bass rant I used to have Dodge RAM3500 with subwoofer mounted under the right rear seat. It was lots of fun especially for the females sitting on that thing turned up rockin' high:-) | |
| Sounds better at home I often visit Birdland and Irridium jazz clubs of NYC. The sound and acoustics are awesome with minimal amplification.Recently visited BB-King at Times Square. This venue has even great sound in the man's room:-) | |
| SET the best? It depends. Believe it or not, Johnatan Swift described a detailed answer to your question in his "Adventures of Hulliver in the Country of Lilliputs"... |