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Dec 24, 2015	Tube preamp reliability vs SS? People hear what they want to hear .
Dec 24, 2015	Review: PSB Imagine T2 Speaker Its also why you should never buy a amp not rated stable at 2 ohms .
Dec 24, 2015	Have you ever spoken with a designer or audio engineer Many/most engineers believe there is no difference because your brain runs the show and above all tries to maintain a stasis .Changing a core belief for someone whose life is centered around learned "facts" can upset same stasis and the brain will...
Dec 23, 2015	Jazz for aficionados I never heard of Larry either O-10 . Only reason I bought his CD at Goodwill was it was a Mapleshade , even with no liner .Listened to " Solo Spirit " half-dozen times. Mr. Willis is a big deal to me, tons of soul in the most general sense of that...
Dec 23, 2015	Pickering v15 Series 4 Mystery I'm running the Nagoka MP-200 on Project Perspex, seems to be the sweetspot available today for the acoustic music I listen to .Really miss a Sony DD with 4-5 different Sumiko headshells but too old to fool with all that anymore .
Dec 23, 2015	Jazz for aficionados Hard to be more wrong for many reasons, too many to state on here .What Mediocrity hates is truth . What it loves is braggadocio.
Dec 22, 2015	Jazz for aficionados Speaking of Jazz, jazzists -I am listening to a Larry Willis solo CD I bought yesterday at Goodwill .He sure is an elegant pianist , is he a big deal on jazz scene ?
Dec 22, 2015	Phono Cartridge for Sony PS-8750 My pleasure, jed .
Dec 22, 2015	Pickering v15 Series 4 Mystery Just so Norman, I used to be able to buy them at 65$ a pop, when I first heard what the 3000 could do on massed strings I fell in love .Don't you think the suspension might be a bit iffy by now?Haven't see one for a loooong time in any event .Anot...
Dec 22, 2015	Jazz for aficionados Yes, he was never forgiven at alma mater for telling the truth. Even more so for telling all in government to "never trust the Generals" on a regular basis .Total US casualties in WW II were at 420 K, not all in Europe obviously . Most military hi...
Dec 22, 2015	Jazz for aficionados One of its greatest grads said about all there is to say on that subject in his farewell address.The greatest speech ever made by a US President and completely ignored There can be no doubt though the view up the Hudson tops Sandhurst , St-Cyr, Bu...
Dec 22, 2015	Jazz for aficionados rok2id, that kool-aid bottled at West Point is the strongest and most long-lasting on the Planet !Only known antidote to the severe hubris attacks it induces is the Reality brand bottled at the University of Hard Knocks .Happy New Year !
Dec 22, 2015	How important are speaker cables to the sound emanating from the speakers? Like everything else in audio you never know till you try it in your system in your room .Both the fun and the despair in this hobby .
Dec 22, 2015	Pickering v15 Series 4 Mystery Nope, Shure top model was a V15 , I assumed Stanton used V15 to ride of the known name on their low products which did sound good.Norman, my two fave carts of all time were the XVS 3000 and the Empire RD-9 . Nobody not there in the day believes th...
Dec 22, 2015	Jazz for aficionados A little known,relatively small school that has a hell of a good jazz program is U of Wisconsin-Eau Claire .As I recall Downbeat ranked it #1 several times .It spreads out to the city of Eau Clare as well, I seriously doubt if any out of the way t...