normb
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| Should we care if a piece of equipment comes from a pet-free, kid-free, smoke-free home? Wow. And here I thought I was the only one. To start, let me just say I LOVE cats. Can’t ever eat a whole one though… (ba-DUMP-dum-CHING! I’m here all week folks, two shows on Saturday nights. Tip your waiter) Cat dander is a much larger p... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? A MINT match to the Saturday Night show I’ve had for years. 1961. | |
| New Audiogon URL restrictions are too much Thanks to the OP. Same thing happened to me a few days ago. Good to know. | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? @danager Thanks for posting the link. | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? @ortodox 02-29-2024 at 11:56am I went from 87 db speakers to 94 db speakers. Much better sound at low volume and less power needed. **** I had a similar experience with going from 85 dB sensitivity (84-86 depending on whose numbers one ... | |
| PURON RESOLVE creates new options for better sound No. I have not (yet) tried any of these devices, although the Puron intrigues me, even more so that I have yet to see them popping up in the used ePay or usual used audio component sales sites. They either work, work well enough to keep, or are s... | |
| PURON RESOLVE creates new options for better sound FYI: Compliment NOT the same as complement. Just as AFFect not the same as EFFect. Or, as the pundit said to appease the grammarian: there, their, they’re. | |
| Turntable Cartridge upgrade question. I answered that question several years ago, before covid: Benz Micro Glider SL (with a Musical Surroundings Nova III phono stage that developed a hiss several months prior to the warranty going out and Musical Surroundings refused to take it for e... | |
| Songs you use when auditioning gear Hunter’s & Collectors - Betty’s Worry or, the slab (bass, vocals, horns) El Ten Eleven - Fanshawe (bass, harmonics, picking, “fret work”) Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool (RVG ed) BUDO. Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries. I saw him live a w... | |
| Humminguru record cleaner @czarivey So, do you spin the LP clockwise, or anticlockwise? | |
| Cable Break In for the Naysayers I read an article somewhere in the past year about the sounds associated with aurora borealis (northern lights). It’s been “folklore” for centuries that people have reported HEARING them while scientists, ahem, *S*C*I*E*N*T*I*S*T*S* have scoffed,... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Dexter Gordon, Daddy Plays the Horn A smooth, mellow nightcap. | |
| Old phones as streaming sources Good to read - some of - this post, esp. that by the OP. I’d been using my daughter’s old iPhone 5 for a BT streamer for various internet radio programs like NPR’s Hot Jazz Saturday Night, Radio Bob and Bayern 3 in Germany and several others. La... | |
| Do You Buy Speakers Without Hearing Them? I bought a pair of Klipsch Heresy IV’s a year ago ear unheard (sight unseen… ear… never mind) and I swore up and down I’d return the *&@&)$^*’d things inside 48 hours of arrival but decided to wait. I ran FM radio classic rock for a coupl... | |
| Buying online, online searches and Scams oh my! @chrisoshea Yeah, I’d gone through this exercise before, looking up the address, the “WHOIS” bit (coached by a friend in Australia of all places who pointed some of the discrepancies and inconsistencies of the previous scam to me) and since havi... |