rcrump
Responses from rcrump
| Best preamp for Audio Research VT100mkI JBM, the Blowtorch has a base price of $12,500, a touch more than the $1,000 Demar wanted to spend....BTW, Curl designed the circuit, Thompson designed the boards and I did everything else....It is the best we can do without compromises..... | |
| Silverline Audio Speaker Cables Haven't tried them, but Alan liked my wires at one of my dealers so bet there is a resemblance.....Go for it as that is what Alan used to develop and voice the speakers..... | |
| FIM 880 AC Outlet-- Best tweak I've ever heard Garfish, your choice of power cords combined with the ACME outlets would likely scrape the paint off the walls in the upper midrange and can see why the FIMs were preferred..... I've had good luck with the ACME outlets here...... | |
| How long do you keep a component? Lordy, I guess my stuff would be considered ancient as main speakers are ten years old, turntable is almost eleven years old, phono stage is thirteen years old, woofers about fifteen years old, DAC/Transport seven years old and even my wires are o... | |
| What's it worth if you sold it today? Got her number? Retail doesn't mean much with a bunch of my gear as it is only sold direct and value doesn't drop as much as that sold through retailers.... | |
| Bob Crump DIY Power Cable Help The hospital grade Pass & Seymour 5266-XHG really doesn't sound very good with the Belden 19364 compared to the 5266-X and costs 20% more...... | |
| which direction do this cable go? Plug the cable in one way and then reverse it and the way that allows the highest image height on the same recording will be correct.... | |
| Dedicated outlets vs Power Conditioner Sean, my Radio Shack plug-in AC meter is genuine plastic, not the fake kind, and is pure analog with a pointer, green and red zones and everything! Cost me almost $10 about twenty years ago and it is plenty accurate as it was the cherry picked aud... | |
| Rockport Serius II is it as good as the Serius III I have heard both the System II Sirius and the System III Sirius and like the System III a bit better......Both tables will eat virtually anything else out there in terms of noise floor and low level detail due to the lack of metal to metal contac... | |
| Thanks to all Texas Phile's who partied Jerry, what was that Wavelength amp called as it worked just fine with those little Krix speakers? Yep, it was fun and think we need to set up a club like we did in San Antonio about twenty some odd years ago..... | |
| What time do you wear? Since I retired time doesn't mean as much......Put on my Movado to wear at the CES and realized I needed a new battery......I might get a new battery before the next CES....... | |
| Have you ever been stuck? Not on Audiogon, but had a check for a whole $25 bounce once that cost me $20 bank charges from some guy out of Buffalo, New York.....He sent me a check on a closed account and would not respond to my email.....Believe his name was Bigfoot, but mi... | |
| vmps, art d/io, & boldercables.com Yep, the sound in our room was really green for most of the show.....The speakers had 75 hours on them and we had about that on the JC-1 prototypes and nothing even started to gel until late Thursday and Friday wherein the sound got to table radio... | |
| what happened to power cord review Dekay, a friend bought a couple of them and we did some listening right out of the box, with two weeks break-in and with six weeks break-in and both sounded alike and not to either my friend's or my liking, but to each his own....I think you would... | |
| Cartridge Longevity? I have a Clavis DC in a Rockport table that is setting records as it will be four years old shortly.....It has well over 2,000 hours on it and I have used some green sandpaper and LP-9 to clean the stylus all these years.....The cartridge took alm... |