noromance
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| Tired of all the gimmicky pricing, i.e. $999.99 or $927 @stevehardy1 The OP is well aware of why .99 exists. That's why the issue was raised. Isn't it time we grew up and stopped this ridiculous pricing? Especially in high end audio? I've always found that when someone defends a commonly-held bad pract... | |
| What does the word audiogon even mean? @ebm You must be exhausted pulling so many all nighters. | |
| Thumping noise Is this a joke? | |
| the cart or the horse? +1 charles1dad Tube integrated amp. Add in OFC power cords from Ebay and decent solid core speaker cables. | |
| Burn in period It's not the signal, it's the medium. E.g. the crystal orientation in copper. Why would wire be directional when AC moves back and forth? | |
| Looking To Match A Tube Amp With A Pair Of Audio Note AN-K/Spe Pass Labs are polite. So a good push-pull tube amp should make the ANs sing. However, have you tried a different preamp? | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @bkeske Enjoying the Dead album art. I was late to the band having got turned on to them from the Freaks and Geeks show. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Lester Flatt And Earl Scruggs And The Foggy Mountain Boys – Hard Travelin’ Columbia 1963) Richard Strauss – Also Sprach Zarathustra Tone Poem For Full Orchestra, Op. 30 (Angel 1963) Pug Horton – Don’t Go Away (Bodeswell 1979) ~ Pug is great. So... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Lucy Ward – I Dreamt I Was A Bird... (Betty Beetroot 2015) Rosalie Sorrels – Travelin Lady Rides Again (Philo 1978) ~ Sorrels album is superb. High marks for the other two. Nancy Harrow – Anything Goes (Audiophile 1979) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Sidney DeParis' Blue Note Jazzmen / Sidney DeParis And His Blue Note Stompers – DeParis Dixie (Blue Note 1969) The Dew Drops With Stuart Foster And Fifi Barton – Rain (20th Century Fox 1960) Al Stewart – Year Of The Cat (Janus 1976) | |
| Would appreciate a group consensus on Agon purchased amps +1 waltersalas. PS Hopefully the OP did not just order cheapo cables! | |
| Change it or Defend it, where is your stereo at? Happy with system(s). I do wish I had a better space than the basement. But it sounds so much better on concrete. Some day. | |
| LP12 Hum Best to meter out the connections from disconnected cartridge pins to RCA plugs. | |
| Toolshed Amps 300b Stereo Amp Nice read on PTA. I enjoyed this in particular: >> "What I hear is what I might describe as “fast bloom.” Have you ever seen one of those time-lapsed videos of a flower bud transcending into a full-on blossom? Think that, but speed it up ... | |
| LP12 Hum It could only have been that if you think about it! Dump the arm, the LP12 deserves better. It was the internal wiring of the tonearm |