moto_man
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| The $10,000 Question Joseph Audio Pulsars used -- about $4-5k. A truly excellent speaker, especially for its price, shocking about of bass for a stand-mounted speaker. Amp: used Pass Labs 250.8 (about $6K used). That is a great combo for about $10K and the Pass will... | |
| What's up with the price of Vintage equipment? @vitussl101 nailed it. I was a freshman in high school in 1972. I and my buddy lusted after high end gear. I had a Harmon Kardon 430 as my first "good" receiver, a Phillips turntable with highly cool (for the time) LED touch sensor buttons, and ... | |
| Neat "Tweaks" to improve the SQ of your streamed music!!! +1 on the Purons. I have had two in my system for about 100 hrs now. At first, I thought that the improvement was simply because I was listening to well-recorded music. But I have now realized that everything that I listen to . . . even bootleg... | |
| Power cable Advice... If you have all the money that you want/need, go ahead and blow whatever you want on power cables. But it doesn't seem that you are in that category. I have a Pass 250.8, ARC REF 6 and Sabrina X speakers. In my system, I have heard a decent, au... | |
| Puron Plug-In AC Power Conditioner; Impressions 😁 I have now had the two Purons installed for over 100 hours, and I am very surprised at the improvement in my system. The most noticeable effect for me is the improvement in the width of soundstage and the placement of the instruments within it. ... | |
| Floorstanding speaker experiences/recommendations in the $12-25k range You are certainly in a very popular price category with a lot of choices. I was there last year and went with the Sabrina X's. in my system, they do everything right. (I also have a REL s/510 in the system). You are likely to be underpowered fo... | |
| Smaller plug-in AC Purifiers -- Shunyata, iFi, Puron...something else? What do you like? I will throw my hat in the ring as a happy Puron customer as well. Bought 2 of them and I perceive a significant audible improvement in both soundstage and the depth of the soundstage. Definitely worth the $400 I paid for 2! | |
| DAC/Streamer/PreAmp I would recommend the Audio Research REF6 over the 5SE. I use an MSB Discrete DAC with a Premier Power Base with the renderer module, and a solid state hard drive connected with CAT8 cable, all managed by Roon using an iPad next to my listening c... | |
| Do You Buy Speakers Without Hearing Them? For me, price dictates my desire to actually hear a speaker, unless I am familiar with the "house" sound. But I have found that no matter what, speakers don't sound the same in the store, of course, and as you go up in price, they become more sen... | |
| Cable Break In for the Naysayers I don't understand it and therefore the phenomenon of "break-in" doesn't make sense to me, except perhaps with speakers. But nonetheless, I have perceived a difference between when I first hooked cables up and ran them for 50 or 100 hours. So wh... | |
| A $250 Power Conditioner? @questforhifi , I do not notice any "brightness" that is not on the recording itself. I understand that it seems to go away when you remove the Puron, but all I can tell you is that I have not noticed anything like that in my system and 2 of them... | |
| A $250 Power Conditioner? After readings a few threads on the Puron, I purchased 2 on sale. One went into the wall with the Shunyata Alpha V1 power cord from my Pass 205.8. The other went into a 500W isolation transformer into which my DAC and pre are plugged. I found b... | |
| Why so many ARC Ref 6SE preamps up for sale? I have a REF6 and I love it. I recently thought of listing it, solely because I wondered about the future availability of replacement tubes. But it seems like there is a significant demand and supply of tubes -- just look at the number of NOS tu... | |
| Aggrivated tinnitus from speakers? I have Menieres Syndrome in my L ear, a symptom of which is low frequency loss, and tinnitus. it goes into remission for 6-7 years and then rages for a month or so, and then reduces. The tinnitus never goes away but it does get quieter, when in ... | |
| Robert Plant @nitrobob, you are so right. Get The Led Out is just an amazing show. front row center for their show coming up in March. Last year, they were EPIC. I was looking around at all of these old geezers singing along, with their walkers etc., and t... |