roberjerman

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My Fisher XP66c Speakers Went To The Dump Today
The XP66's are good only for firewood! No tears lost! 
single driver speakers
Altec 755's in a two-cubic foot sealed box will give you satisfying bass and enough treble for pleasurable listening! 
New D'Agostino Monoblocks...$250,000
A pair of 400 amp arc welders that will work in an emergency as boat anchors! Human folly reaches ever higher! 
Phono for Ikeda 9TT LOMC
+1 nandric for the Denon AU-S1 ! 
VPI TNT Mk 3 – Looking for a tonearm and cartridge
Get a secondhand Kuzma 4 Point and a new Miyajima mc cartridge! This combination is a real contender! 
NAME SOME RARE AUDIO ITEMS THAT DID NOT TAKE OFF BUT SHOULD HAVE & WHY.HERE'S MY LIST
Correction: "dispensed with" - sorry! 
NAME SOME RARE AUDIO ITEMS THAT DID NOT TAKE OFF BUT SHOULD HAVE & WHY.HERE'S MY LIST
The Beveridge Electrostatics! A true SOTA contender which few have heard because of low production numbers. I was one of the first to hear them back in 1977 and they indeed did the 3-D image thing like no other! The version I heard was direct-driv... 
New D'Agostino Monoblocks...$250,000
A new height of human folly has been reached! 
New D'Agostino Monoblocks...$250,000
Buy the new 1500 wpc Rowland Demon for $20K and save big $! 
Converting cd's to high resolution audio
There is NO way to get any more musical information off a 16/44.1 CD! ALL the musical data is locked in those pits and lands! It is a FALLACY to think that upsampling adds "more" musical information! IT DOES NOT! Only a higher bit rate/higher freq... 
Have You Ever Owned QUADS?
@geoffkait  Removing the grills and dust covers makes them dandy flying bug killers! And don't forget the prying fingers of little kids! 
Technics SL-23 Tonearm wire.
"Solder a small piece on and put a piece of hear shrink over it" - DO IT!  
Time for POT? previously owned tubes
Here in 2018 used vintage tubes are still the best choices - and prices keep rising! 
Have You Ever Owned QUADS?
I was aware for years of the Quad 57's superiority over the typical box speaker. Yet not until I heard a pair driven by a pair of Futterman H3AA's did I realize what I had been missing! Seamless coherency from top to bottom! I decided then and the... 
Crown XLS 1502.... real life test.
Thank you roxy54 for your test and review! To quote an old Queen song "And another one bites the dust".