mofimadness
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| what houseold items I've been using these Ikea cutting boards as isolation platforms. They work just as well as my maple boards at like 1/5th of the price. Just flip them over. They're flat on the bottom.Highly recommended!http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/product... | |
| Budget amp for NS-1000. Rotel, march or parasound? It's Marsh, not March and it's a great amp. Many excellent reviews. That would be my choice of the options you listed. | |
| New Technics 1200 According to this article, the first run of 300 of the SL-1200GAE sold out in 30 minutes. Another run of 900 are due soon.http://www.whathifi.com/news/technics-sl-1200gae-turntable-sells-out-in-30-minutes | |
| New Technics 1200 Actually, I seem to remember reading that the first run is considered a "special" run and limited. After this there is suppose to be a standard run and will sell for much less. No, they are going to be the same price.http://www.whathifi.com/t... | |
| Active speakers: Audioengine vs other brands. Opinions? IMHO, the Paradigm Shift is one of the best active speakers available.VERY nice! Excellent reviews too. | |
| Has anyone recently had any slow response with Sound-Smith repairs Who else offers service on repairing/rebuilding cartridges? John, I have had Andy do several rebuilds for me because of the back log at SoundSmith, ( I have had nothing but excellent work done by Peter, this was just because it was going to tak... | |
| RSD 2016 Crappy weather in Colorado today. You couldn’t have asked for a worse day. Rain, snow, wind just horrible, but the RSD crowd was in great spirits.My haul today:David Bowie TVC15 Rhino 7" Picture DiscBrandi Carlisle – Live From KCRW [12”] Colored V... | |
| Wharfedale Denton 80th Anniversity speaker: Best stand height for them and brand?? I agree with Tim except that I usually will setup a small monitor/bookshelf speaker with the middle of the tweeter at ear level when sitting down.So if your ear is at 40 inches in your listening chair and the middle of the tweeter is 12 inches fro... | |
| DAC or CD Player. Help! The result is a function of the CD transport, the cable used, the DAC and the synergy between the aforementioned. +1 It all matters. | |
| BARNES & NOBLE HAS VINYL!!!!! BUT IS THE QUALITY UP TO AUDIOPHILE STANDARDS ???? The quality they get would depend on their LP supplier right? How could there be a difference? There isn’t a difference. All of the LPs, now matter where you buy them, come from the same distributors. It isn’t like these specialty retailers are pr... | |
| Has anyone heard of the GRAMOVOX FLOATING RECORD PLAYER?? The cartridge is an Audio Technica AT95E. I’ve seen one of these tables and played around with it for a few minutes. IMHO, more of a gimmick/conversation piece than a serious piece of gear. Maybe an upgrade for the Crosley crowd.They do have a 60 ... | |
| classe twenty five and classe fifteen #1: that the DR-9 was 1 of your faves. Is it a sweeter amp than the Classe’ - 25? Yes. Sweeter, warmer and smoother. #2: you said you ran your a pair of DR-8’s in mono. I ran a pair of DR-9’s in mono & the amps sounds way better in Stereo th... | |
| Quicken the burn in time for new speakers by using a cheaper SS amp? Buy an old stereo receiver and tune it to a rap station(a heavy bass genre). Place your speakers close together, hook them up out of phase(with each other) and facing one another, with a blanket over them. Much of the sound will cancel out t... | |
| Magneplanar speaker terminals. is there an adapter to.... Jim, any regular sized banana plug will fit into the the Magnepan terminals. If you tighten them down, they might ruin the banana plug a little. You just need to be sure to back the set screw out all the way.Magnepan sells an adapter to use spade ... | |
| CHINESE tubes? I have several drawers, (hundreds and hundreds of tubes) full of tubes. Both NOS and new production. I have found the new production Shuguang and Psvane to be as good, if not sometimes better, (depends on the circuit) than any of my NOS tubes from... |