markmendenhall
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| Integrateds: Why do they all SUCK? The animal skin clad, decrepit, mud-stained clan hunkered closely together as huge rain drops relentlessly pelted their goosebumped, filthy bodies. A thunderous clap in the sky had just accompanied a jagged bolt of lightning that exploded th... | |
| Please , Thank you.Help in choosing a CD or a CD/Universal player Bought the same Hegel you list and just love it. So analog sounding it’s scary. Beautiful sounding cdp. | |
| Done buying new vinyl lots of really good advice and thoughts re: vinyl in this discussionFWIW I've been a vinyl 'aficionado' since about 1968 (and boy do I wish I hadn't sold all those albums while 4 years in college !). Late to the party, but recently have been fill... | |
| Mapleshade Isolation: Does Nothing? a 'single piece of wood' is really hard to come by; most planks, posts, platforms are laminated in naturelaminated wood is more stable, less susceptible to warping and splitting | |
| Replacement CD Player? FWIW - been listening to my Hegel CDP-4 lately, first CDP I’ve owned that takes me beyond comparing CDs to my much more expensive and preferred medium vinyl rig. I just forget about thinking ‘what’s better’ (and why) and enjoy listening to music.... | |
| Mapleshade Isolation: Does Nothing? Recently installed Mapleshade Bedrock speaker stands under a pair of Totem monitors in the 'man cave'. FWIW, this 'system' is not for music, but for TV only, using the TV as the audio source run through an NAD 3020 digital integrated amplifier. ... | |
| Looking for thoughts from Nottingham Analog table owners The most unfortunate part of this entire hobby is we are limited by the quality of every source recording, no matter what the medium. We can ramp up the $, the technology, the expertise, the materials, the designs, the manufacturing, but in the e... | |
| Looking for thoughts from Nottingham Analog table owners Have had the 1800 for a couple months. | |
| Looking for thoughts from Nottingham Analog table owners I’m beginning to believe that another reason that components I own and enjoy which others claim to sound dark, veiled, imprecise, or short on detail, and which I find sound opposite those descriptions, has to do with the extremely low noise floor ... | |
| Looking for thoughts from Nottingham Analog table owners The 2nd point I meant to make was that the Kiseki took at least 40 - 50 hours to shake the bulk of the zip out of it (my experience) - way too hot for my tastes to begin with; that's somewhere between 60 and 70 albums, then it begins to settle in.... | |
| Looking for thoughts from Nottingham Analog table owners Recently purchased a new Ace Spacedeck and 10" Ace Anna arm fitted with a Kiseki Purpleheart NS cartridge. Replaced a 15 year old original Spacedeck/Spacearm fitted with an Ortofon Cadenza Bronze cartridge which I donated to a good buddy in need ... | |
| Can't we all just get along? At the risk of sounding negative, to suggest that rude and incendiary comments on this site have anything to do with who is in the White House is ridiculous. Bad behavior has zero to do with politics. The shallow and imperious attitudes that ... | |
| Phono Stage Recommendation $3000 Used Cary Audio PH-302 mk ii4 ea 6SL7 tubes plus a 5AR4 rectifier tubevariable loadingMM input plus MC input dead quiet and very musical can be fitted with an outboard power supply | |
| Flat vinyl records... Please chip-in to insite! Put a fairly warped record in the Vinyl Flat for a few weeks and rather than putting it in the oven I set it over the heat vent in my floor. Max heat 72 F. from a forced air furnace. It came out perfectly flat, didn’t expect that at all. Appear... | |
| Focal Kanta No.2 speakers - any thoughts? Also in comparison with Sonus Faber Olympica 3s? fwiw, part of the reason my Olympica's need more power is because of the large room they are in; my living room is 24' wide (where the speakers sit) and 36' long, with 13' ceilings - certainly not idealI position them approx. 15" from the back wal... |