mitch2
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| DVD-A player - while they still exist The new Oppo and the Ayre listed above are good choices. You should look at the upgrades offered for the Oppo on the Modwright website. Another good choice is either of the two players currently offered by MUSE, a company with a long track record ... | |
| Is there a cable maven in the house? Just get the Jensens which have high quality transformers in them and which sound excellent by doing nothing wrong. The PC unit listed above converts "Pro" +4dBu signals to "Consumer" -10dBV signals. I am not sure that is what you would want. I su... | |
| Number of yrs. to reach the finished line? Gotta say, I have no current plans for major changes. I have owned the Aerial 9's for about 5 years, Lector for 3 yrs. and Tom Evans Vibe/Pulse for 3 years (off and on - I have owned several of them). I have only had my Clayton amps about a year, ... | |
| Is this the END of DAYS for the high end CD player when it does not seem that way is when I will make a move to hard drive based storage, or possibly cloud based hi-rez stream and playI agree with Grannyring and Pubul57. For now I am actually going back and forth between two excellent players, one... | |
| Anyone heard the new Cary SA-500.1 Monoblocks? Stan, I looked very hard at the 500.1's and ultimately decided to upgrade my Clayton's instead. I might have been swayed if there had been more information out there about the 500.1's but they are quite new. I understand there may be a pair curren... | |
| Best Bike to ride before a good listening session Any bike I am riding at the time is the best. There is no bad ride. My riding goes about 2/3-1/3 road to mountain and both are great fun. Like audio, I sometimes think folks (me included) get too wrapped up in the gear and forget that the fun is i... | |
| Once again...looking for a "tube like" SS preamp None of them have the harmonic richness of dimensionality that tubes can give.Mikey, have you heard a TEAD Vibe7 with Pulse II? I am not going to argue that it is the same as a tubed preamp, but it certainly has the harmonic richness and dimension... | |
| Once again...looking for a "tube like" SS preamp I agree with Philjolet who said above,Look for excellent solid state and enjoy it for what it is......and Dover nailed it with the Tom Evans recommendation. I own the TEAD Vibe (Lithos 7) with Pulse II and it betters every single SS preamp I have ... | |
| Tom Evans Audio Design Microgroove + X Review Thanks for the mini-Vibe/Pulse review;It was the Vibe/Pulse that was really a game-changing piece of equipment for me: a blackground blacker than I had ever heard before, with quite stunning macro dynamics, and full and complete tonal saturation w... | |
| Piece of Audio gear you regret selling The only gear I regret selling was my very first transaction which put me on the path of Audiogon, etc. - a pair of ADS L810's in mint cond. However, I will give an honorable mention to a CAT Ultimate MkII with CD taper volume that I sold a couple... | |
| Mosfet mist? Lamm does ok with their mosfet based hybrids. | |
| McCormack DNA-750 These have been introduced very quietly. No reviews that I am aware of although they seem like they could be similar to a pair of bridged DNA 225 monos. I do have a picture of the insides and there are a few of the CJ capacitors in them. CJ also o... | |
| Cardas Cold Forging Geez Bobby, sorry but I totally missed tuboglo's post. I am on board with the process since I use high pressure hydraulic crimpers on the cables I make; using a similar die, two crimps and trim the spades, very similar to the Cardas video, but of ... | |
| Cardas Cold Forging Thank you Bobby, you addressed my question from 4/2 about whether the enamel is removed. Can you add any more details about how they remove it prior to the cold forge process? I suspect that is not easy in the absence of tinning the wire. | |
| Cardas Cold Forging You left the e out of blue, here is the correct link;http://www.bluejeanscable.com/articles/ultrasonic-welding.htmThis is a pretty cool process. Here is another article;http://www.ktu.lt/lt/mokslas/zurnalai/mechanika/mechtu_65/Kuprys365.pdf |