oldschool1948
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Just wanted to introduce myself. I've had a Teac X-10R since about 1982. With it, I use a dbx 224 to remove tape hiss and dbx 3bx range expander. Back in the day, I'd spend hours and sometimes days mixing a 10" reel, or simply recording some of my favorite albums. I don't have... | |
Whats on your turntable tonight? Roberta Flack "Chapter Two""The Issac Hayes Movement"Sade "Promise"War "All Day Music" | |
How do you store and catalog your vinyl? I've separated my albums and CDs into two broad categories, Jazz/Blues and then everything else (Soul, R&B, and soft Rock). I sort them by the first letter of the artist or group name. I have about 1,200 albums - some of which I don't list... | |
Help with advice for high end speaker cables for my system! Try Blue Jeans Cable. Custom made cables at a good price.https://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/speaker/index.htm | |
LP Cleaning My okki nokki mk2 works well for me. | |
Leaving Solid State Equipment on all the Time I agree that heat is the enemy of electronic equipment. I also think that if kept cool, you can run your equipment 7/24 with no issues. Computers are a good example of that. My desktop computer is liquid cooled, runs 7x24, and I've never had a ... | |
Leaving Solid State Equipment on all the Time I must say, my music does sound much better when I leave the equipment on. My NAD M12 pre/dac and M22 v2 power amp have a standby mode, but the Zenith does not. First chance I get, I'm going to place the NADs in standby mode for a few hours and ... | |
Tidal and Squeezebox I run LMS on a Innous Zenith and a Synology NAS. The Zenith is in my main system, it is synchronized with a SqueezeBox Duet connected to a secondary system in my rec room.The Synology NAS is connected to a Raspberry PI in my home office and 4 Air... | |
Whats in your second system? My first system is now my second system in my rec room:Group 1:McIntosh C31V A/V controllerMcIntosh MC2600 power ampMcIntosh 7008 cd changerMcIntosh TunerTimeWindow 3 speakersGroup 2:Pioneer SPEC4 power ampSoundCraftsman SP4001 equalizer/preBoston... | |
blue jeans cable? First I made my own bi-wire cables :-). Bought a pair of their Canare cables and the sound improvement was rather dramatic. The build quality is outstanding IMHO, and the price was definitely right. | |
Leaving Solid State Equipment on all the Time Zenith setup is very user friendly. Instead of Roon, I use LMS because I have several Squeezebox Duets, Raspberry PI Squeezelight players, and AirPlay speakers making up my whole house music system. I have the 2 TB model and have started ripping... | |
Leaving Solid State Equipment on all the Time My equipment:NAD M12 preamp/dacNAD M22 v2 power ampInnous Zenith MKII media playerTechniques SL-1600MK2 turntable I’m going to leave them on for a while just to see what happens. | |
My experience after lost of 20k$ +1 Innous Zenith MKII | |
20 Amp Power Cables into a 15A Power Conditioner If you use an adaptor it will be detrimental to your sound just use the right connector!! That's my intention. I was offered a good deal on 20 amp cables and was just looking at options. | |
20 Amp Power Cables into a 15A Power Conditioner Thanks for the advice. |