musicfan2349
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| Modern "Vintage" Sounding Preamps If you don't mind my asking, why the 20 year cutoff date? I have an ARC SP11 mk2 (1987) that sounds lovely and will likely keep sounding so for decades to come. Prior to that was an SP3-A1 from 1975 that many will agree still sounds wonderful ... | |
| To extend Ethernet to remote location, are Powerline extenders or Mesh systems better? @ericsch Hi, sorry for the delayed response. We were off visiting her family for the holiday. Yes, I use a Conrad Johnson Premier 6 pre-preamplifier. If you Google for it the pdf is available on their website. It's quite sensitive to RF and when ... | |
| To extend Ethernet to remote location, are Powerline extenders or Mesh systems better? Too bad you committed to an extender... A mesh network is much better for many reasons, not the least of which is throughput: An extender will typically HALF your throughput b/c you're going from one "network" to another. With mesh it's all one ne... | |
| Beautiful Music That Reduce You To Tears Geez, right from the first notes... | |
| Is Pretty Good Good Enough? Listening Habits In The World Of Streaming Services. Here's my take on it: There's listening to the music then there's listening to your system play music. I'm a software support engineer and if you've seen the news lately, the world is burning because of a new security vulnerability. Last night aft... | |
| Days of Our Lives Considering how much of it goes on on this forum I'm surprised no one has mentioned... Saturday Night's Alright - Elton John :) Happy listening. | |
| How long do good speakers last? My Acoustat 1+1's electrostatics are doing quite well, thank you for asking. I had to refoam the RH Labs sub but it also is doing well. Call it 30+ years for all of them... so far!I have to go retrieve my dad's B&W Matrix 800's... I'm HOPING t... | |
| Why so many tubes? Respectfully, the idea that the number of cylinders in an automobile has a relationship to horsepower is NOT a good analogy... Let's consider a modern V-12 power plant say from a Bentley or Aston Martin. Now, let's compare that to a V-8 funny car ... | |
| Are Fall Sales Leveling Out in the Used Market? What no one has said is the elephant in the room IMHO: We're all getting older. I'm seeing more ads for systems that were left behind by a deceased spouse or downsizing due to a change in lifestyle and/or dormicile. In my own case for instance, I ... | |
| How To Do You Measure the Quality of Your AC Power? Dimming lights? Treadmill affecting things? Let's start with something simple!Most modern outlets use some sort of wire capturing spring. They're quick and easy to install. Strip and insert wire, done. While they may hold the wire fine, IMHO they'... | |
| As you have moved on, are there any items you remember fondly...or most fondly? Had to chuckle at the multiple mentions of Acoustat... You see, I still HAVE my 1+1s Medallions from new. Never have been able to hear anything to get me to let them go. LOLHappy listening. | |
| I really could use some help here..... OP, you’re good to go! I have a slightly different arrangement but my system also uses a woofer with a high-pass filter. In my system I’m using a vintage RH Labs sub which is powered by the amp. So my set up is like this:Sources to PreampPre to po... | |
| Do You Ever Find Yourself Unable to Listen To Your System? Sorry to hear about your troubles! Others have offered advice on how they deal with things and really, most of it is pretty good. However just b/c you can’t sit and listen as you’d like, doesn’t mean you have to be deprived of the solace that musi... | |
| Need a DAC Recommendation. I'm pretty happy with this: https://borderpatrol.net/DAC.htmI upgraded from a Jolida Glass and never looked back. It will only take one input but I only use it for my Node2i. Warm, nice soundstage and looks to be well built.Happy listening! | |
| Do any of you kids , want your system ??? TL:DR... Long sad tale ahead. Pop passed 20 years ago and left me his system: VPI, Jadis, B&W Matrix 800s and a few hundred LPs and CDs. Unfortunately my dear mother refused to let it go. I went from WA to FL four times at her bidding to "com... |