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Responses from mg16
| How Did Your First Audiophile Experience Impact Your Audio Journey? Pink Floyd Umma Gumma and orange sunshine acid for me. Made quite an impression on me, even to this day. mg16 | |
| What Gear Has Disappointed You? Audiomat phono stage Lehman Black Cube phono stage Mesa Baron tube amp Threshold S/300 power amp Pass Aleph 3 Too many others to mention. mg16 | |
| Solid state to tube Quicksilver all the way. I love my Quicksilver Mid monos, and phono stage. | |
| To couple, or not to couple, that is the question I've tried many floor standing speakers that I have owned, using both soft isolation footers and hard spikes to the floor. I have found that ,for me, large floor standers benefit from spikes, while stand mounted book shelf speakers, sound better w... | |
| The greatest tweak ever? Makes perfect sense now. I had always heard a noticeable improvement in my systems sound on rainy days. Knew I was not imagining things, because it was so obvious to my ears. Damp weather, high humidity must affect the air in my room in a positive... | |
| Think Its Possible To Order Tubes From the Ukraine? I kind of think they have their hands full right now. mg16 | |
| Are there speakers that disappear regardless of the recording? In my small room, I have only been able to experience a complete disappearing act with minis and subs. I tried large and small Magnepans, Infinity Rennaissance 90's, Klipsch Lascala. No dice. But my tiny Infinity Infinitesimal 1.0, or my Proac 1sc... | |
| Most beautiful turntable under $5k Cost no object: Oracle Delphi MKV. | |
| What stereo equipment do respected musicians listen to? I can understand how some musicians have simple set ups. If I could play guitar like Jimmy Page, or keyboards like Rick Wakefield, violin like jean Luc Ponti, etc. etc., I would then listen to myself live, and be entertained, rather than inves... | |
| Those who seek to deny access to information Another great source of information in my opinion is Audio Asylum. 99% of the people there are very helpful, and tolerant of divergent views. Audio Asylum -- Audio Reviews, Audiophile Forums and Stereo Reviews mg16 | |
| A** Kicking, Rock and Roll! AC/DC | |
| Slow used market right now? I like to wait to around February/March to list stuff for sale. Many people have their income tax refunds, and therefore have some disposable "fun money" to spend. I have pretty good luck this way. | |
| All I Wanted To Do Was Listen To Music If you DIDN'T DIDN'T know your coffee maker could sound so good, then you DID know your coffee maker could sound so good. Double negative and all you know. Personally, I like the taste of coffee through my Keurig machine, and the sound of my s... | |
| Can recommend some non-fatigue SMALL bookshelf for near-field listening? Seek out a pair of Proac 1SC on the used market. Smooth, detailed, 3-D and easy to drive with a small tube amp. Totally immersive , non fatiging sound. | |
| Line Stage Preamps that blew you away $2500 Edition Used Audio Research LS-25 MKII, bought several years ago for $2500. Last one I need to buy. |