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| Swiss Digital FUSE BOX Question Thread Breaking in my new SDFB with Graphene sluggo. Would you break everything in before trying reversing the sluggo ? Or switch direction while it's still settling in, have about 5 hours on it so far. Many thanks. | |
| Help Deciding On New Speakers For Small Room, $10k budget Recently attended the Capital Audiofest where I listened to scads of uber expensive and moderatly expensive speakers and systems. In a small hotel room, the Harbeth XD P3ESR bookshelves on the Harbeth Nelson Subwoofer / Speaker Stands had me thin... | |
| Capital Audiofest Coming Up! My first audioshow so failed to write down things that were sounding good: Have read about Planar speakers and Horn speakers but finally got to hear both, the Planars were 9 feet high, they were playing Louie Armstrong and he imaged like he was 1... | |
| Capital Audiofest Coming Up! @welcher - Many thanks for that. | |
| Capital Audiofest Coming Up! Any suggestions for getting from the Best Western Rockville to the show? Can I walk, should I drive or is the metro the way to go. Thanks. | |
| Capital Audiofest Coming Up! Planning on going Fri and Sat, my first audio show. Back in the day all my friends had great stereos and I got to listen to lots of different setups. Seems I'm the only one left standing so the show is my new window on stuff. | |
| Drinking Songs playlest... What am I missing? Savoy Brown ’Louisiana song’ killer guitar:, takes coupla minutes to get to ’if the river was wiskey and I was a diving duck’ part https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl6qaUT6pOYBrown ’Louisiana song’ George Jones ’The king is gone (so are you) htt... | |
| Are Metal Speaker Grilles an Issue? I've tried with every speaker I've had recently to hear a difference tween grills on or off, fabric grillls on Von Schweikert VR4jr and Paradigm Studio 60's. No difference to my ears (and I can hear differences between interconnects and power cabl... | |
| Time For a CD Player Upgrade @mellowshifi I bought a 'factory reconditioned' new Hegel Mohician - right from the start, the CD tray would not load the CD, have to turn the unit off just as the drawer closes to get it to load. Then playback started skipping, have to hit forwa... | |
| Biwiring make any sense? 20+ years ago I had Paradigm Studio 60's and 4 Marantz MA500 mono blocks, with bi-wiring. The dynamic range seemed better, the bass slam also a little better. My take away is the same gains can be achieved by putting the money for the extra spe... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Caravan 'In the land of Grey and Pink' Clannad II | |
| Bob James Gotta mention Gabor Szabo 'Macho' - has signature BJ all over it with gypsy Gabor guitar. Like a Bob James album with Gabor playing. Also Bob James Earl Klugh 'one on one' get regular spins. | |
| What was the most expensive record that you ever bought ? Since someone asked, this is the original british Electric Ladyland cover: Got this image from the web and the red stripes were added for modesty, not on the original image | |
| What was the most expensive record that you ever bought ? @noromance - That's a pretty good price, I also lost my log book and was searching for it at record shows and it was always $100 and up. Always missing from the album when I found them for sale. Same for Cheech and Chong Big Bamboo with the giant ... | |
| What was the most expensive record that you ever bought ? Paid $75 for a British release of Jimi Hendrix Electricladyland with the nudes on the cover. |