rickd1235

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My Apologies to Miller Carbon
Years ago I sold electronic encapsulants to OEMs. The most destructive test they run is thermal shock, which is chilling to a certain temp then immersing in a hot liquid at the specified temp. Brutal. The second most destructive is thermal cycling... 
SoundSmith cartridges how good?
@bkeske The seller did send it to Soundsmith and it did not yet require re-tipping. My Zephyr has about 400 Hrs on it and sounds great to me. I figure I will send it in at 1000 Hrs. Really can’t beat a rebuild at 20% of original price. Does any ot... 
SoundSmith cartridges how good?
I couldn't resist and bought this cartridge as a backup for my Zephyr MK III for when I need to send it in for re-tipping. Thanks for the heads up bkeske.To anyone interested, and it’s even tempting for me. Just saw this posted; an old SoundSmith ... 
TIDAL on SALE!
Thanks for the heads up, MoFi. I just purchased a Cocktail Audio Streamer and I jumped on this deal. I am on a free trial on Qobuz and this deal is too good to pass up. I was going to do a Tidal trial next to see which service I wanted. 
Dedicated line: 10 gauge solid core or 8 gauge stranded
My son is an electrical contractor. He installed 2 x 10 gauge solid lines with 20 amp breakers for my Home theater. 12 gauge is minimum 20 amps. 
Wow an old album that rocked your world
The Cars -Self Titled 1978Cheap Trick at the BudokanLed Zeppelin - played VERY loudProcol Harum - Self titled Allman Brothers Band - Idlewild SouthBlues Breakers John Mayall with Eric ClaptonHeck, I’m going put The Cars on the TT right now!