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| Record Store Day 2020 LIst Wish I was local to Plaid Room. I ordered my SYEOR titles online from them, (GREAT prices btw). I’d love to go in and see what they have. I’ve seen pictures of their place, but would love to visit.I plan on pre-ordering some of the 2020 Ten Bands,... | |
| Record Store Day 2020 LIst I bought a few of the SYEOR (Start Your Ear Of Right) titles from Plaid Room. Excellent folks!I found a few on the new RSD list, but agree, it wasn't all that great this year. I seem to be out of the loop on most of the artists...I've never he... | |
| Ortofon blue If I recall correctly, 2M red, blue and silver use the same body. 2M bronze and black use a different body. I think you should be good to try the silver stylus on the blue body. +1...That’s exactly right!According to Ortofon, the Blue is better th... | |
| Mundorf Silver Caps When I upgraded/modified/updated the interfaces on my Acoustat 2+2's, I used the Mundorf EVO Alum+Oil caps. WOW! | |
| Fav Tube/Best tube Favorites are system and listener taste dependent. +1...and I'll add unit dependent also. One tube might sound great in a preamp, but sucks in a phono stage, (for example).I have drawers full of tubes (hundreds and hundreds).Really depends on ... | |
| New Dire Straits 45RPM reissues from Mobile Fidelity @dhite71...thanks for the reply and kind words! I did not notice these issues with mine, but I will go back and listen to make sure.What serial number do you have? Mine are all very low. I wonder if it might be an issue with later batches? | |
| Moving up from a Node 2i In doing so you lose 9/10 of the MQA unfold. Actually you lose 2/3rds. A full MQA decode unfolds (3) times. The Node2 does the first unfold via it's digital outputs.I have been told that the first unfold is the most critical, however I haven'... | |
| Moving up from a Node 2i I have the BluOS running on an Apple iPhone SE, a Dell Venue 7 tablet and an Amazon Fire HD8 with excellent results. No need for a computer?I have also never had any "flakiness" with the Node 2 which I’ve had from almost the time they came out, (l... | |
| Favorite 'Best o/f" recordings! Music On Vinyl has a series called "Collected". I have probably a dozen or more of them. Sound is quite nice. https://www.musiconvinyl.com/catalog?q=collected&cat=&artist=&year=&albumtitle=&format=&status=#.XlaVPqhKiM8 | |
| 12AX7 replacement I just tried the new JJ Tesla Frame Grid E83CC. I found them wonderful sounding. They are only ~$22.00 each. They have gotten some very excellent reviews. https://www.thetubestore.com/jj-e83cc-12ax7 There are many choices for you out there. ... | |
| Speaker cable recommendations in my budget Not a big fan of BDR cones. Type 1 and Type 2. 😛 I’d even go so far as to say they suck. If you can stand em more power to ya. If you’re going to dis them, at least get the model numbers right. They are MK3 & MK4, not Type 1 & Type 2, gee... | |
| Speaker cable recommendations in my budget I am curious what people think about milercarbon’s suggestion related to BDR cones. I'm a HUGE proponent of BDR cones/pucks/pits/shelves. I have them everywhere. Don't think they'll solve your speaker cable issue though... | |
| Speaker cable recommendations in my budget +1 Canare 4S11 | |
| Canare 4S11 @jeffrey75...thanks for kind words. Glad you tried them! They really are incredible. | |
| Comparison of latest DAC chips That is completely incorrect. As I said, I have owned a very good R2R dac and a number of ESS dacs and compared them. I only listen to PCM. The R2R dac was okay on its own terms but I much preferred dacs using the current generation of ESS chips... |