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| May as well call this... | |
| Bands/artists you never got to see live in their heyday, but would've liked to. Dire Straits Dead Kennedys Black Flag (Ron Reyes era) Discharge Blitz Doom X-Ray Spex Generation X Operation Ivy The Undertones The Purple Hearts Secret Affair Toots & The Maytals | |
| CD Player/Transport Quandary @chayro Up til now my digital source has exclusively been an Auralic Aries Femto. Moving from the analog output on my laptop to the dac was a HUGE improvement. Moving from laptop’s usb output to the Aries again made substantial gains. Hence my cur... | |
| DAC That Punches Above Its Price Point The Black Ice/Jolida Glass FX Dac. Doesn’t seem to get a lot of mention on this site, but I sure love mine. Worth every penny of the $600 I paid new. | |
| Best way to spend $1000 on used bookshelf speakers? @soix @tweak1I’m with you guys on this one. OP, I think I paid $1400 for my LSA-10’s, and I consider it to be money well spent. $999 is almost a no-brainer, and they’ll have that bass punch you’re after. I listen to a lot of electronic music and t... | |
| cassettes CAN sound better than vinyl. @pokey77 That Teac deck looks insane! Spendy when new also! Looks like one recently sold for $1500.I’ve had a couple MCS receivers pass through my hands, and they were very decent units, and held their own against contemporaneous gear from the lik... | |
| cassettes CAN sound better than vinyl. Well, I will say that a few years ago I picked up an MCS 3570 tape deck on the cheap at an estate sale, and that when I hooked it up and popped in in my cassette copy of Tracy Chapman’s first album, I was shocked to discover that it sounded on par... | |
| Aged components / service!? Would it be absurd to send an amp that I don’t have any particular complaints about back to the factory for a refresh? My CODA-built amp is from the late 90’s/early 2000’s and I’ve been toying with the idea, wondering if maybe I couldn’t be gettin... | |
| shielded vs unshielded pros and cons? So… pretty much try both shielded and unshielded cables and decide which works best in your system? | |
| Biggest "bang for the buck" audio gear you have owned(in your history)? Pair of mint Onix Rocket stand-mount speakers mounted on Pangea stands I picked up for $20. | |
| shielded vs unshielded pros and cons? I literally just logged in to ask this exact question. I’ve been apprehensively looking at the Decware Silver Reference and DH Labs Silver Pulse interconnects, both of which are unshielded and claim to employ noise rejecting cable geometry. Seems ... | |
| why do so many discussions turn contentious? I joined a forum devoted to my other hobby several years ago. I’ve seen some pretty passionate debates there, but the site is closely moderated, and personal attacks, hostility, or pushing political agendas will quickly result in a suspended accou... | |
| Helping a kid out Hey, good on you… kid’s lucky to have a mentor. Have you considered the Vincent PHO-8? Nice little unit with an outboard power supply. Hifishark turned up a few for sale in the $199-$250 range when I checked just now. | |
| How many dealers do you use? @bslon Echo Audio? | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: CCR. Van Morrison. Fleetwood Mac. |