roberjerman
Responses from roberjerman
| How much space between cables is enough? You fellows have way too much free time! | |
| My venture into the world if demagnitizing vinyl. Your results may vary. "The capacity of Humans for self- delusion is apparently unlimited" - Mr.Spock the Vulcan | |
| Length of speaker cables As the French Chef says "No diffawrance!". But I would cut them in half for a neater layout. | |
| van den Hul The Grail SE+ phono preamplifier Boulder is in the running with a $30K phono stage! Mortgage the house! | |
| What other hobby... Chess! | |
| D'agostino amplifiers: where's the beef? The High End of five (and six!) figure components is really a fantasyland for the money-to-burn crowd! Check out the cover of the latest TAS and those Wilson speakers! | |
| D'agostino amplifiers: where's the beef? That's cheap compared to that Scottish pedigreed ram that sold recently at auction for $450K! | |
| Logical cartridge upgrade for a long time Shure M44-7 user Shure V15 Type Vmr | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? A $300 Topping DAC has about the same parts count and cost as a (name of your favorite) $3K DAC! | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? As I've said before, the proliferation of costly high-end DACs is a clever marketing ploy to snare the gullible and unwary who conflate performance with price! | |
| Do Tonearms need servicing Unless that vintage tonearm has been run over by a vehicle or used as a hammer I'd leave it alone! Spoken as an owner of several nice vintage arms. | |
| Tweaking the new Grado Timbre Sonata 3 No! The Grado is optimized for 47K. | |
| Audio Research Sold The dirty little secret is that Audio Research has been not been profitable for some years now! That is why the McIntosh Group was willing to let it go! We here in the USA are now in the worst economic crisis since the 1930's! Nobody needs four an... | |
| Radio Power Supply in HiFi Application Spending $700 more is a waste of money. | |
| One of those moments we analog people live for... +1 vinylspin! You have discovered that all phono stages are not created equal. My favorite is the RGR 4 (phono and line stage). I have an ARC SP6 for that "tube sound". No need to spend four or five figures on a preamp! |