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| Sonic Frontiers Line 3 Mine is a stock SE, came with all Siemen and sound was a bit too clean for my taste. I will recommend decent tubes in the buffer stage and exeriment with all good NOS in the driver stage. Sound is very personal, what I like doesn't mean you will n... | |
| Sonus Faber Stradivari Homage? It's true Sonus Faber build their speakers like furnitures and arts.It's true you paid a big portion of the bill to the nice cabinets.It's true the asking price does not reflect the sound quality all the time.But have you seen a Toyota Camry or Ho... | |
| Home Spindle Lube Test Tbabb,Scout, like many modern TT, has inverted bearing which requires grease instead of oil for proper lubrication. Are you sure engine oil can support the load without being drained out by gravity? I have a Clearaudio which has an inverted bearin... | |
| Pass XA 160 review:life span is 6 years? Dave & Budrew pointed out an important issue, heat.All Pass runs in high class A or full class A, class A means lots of heat and transistor is always on. Unlike your computer CPU which is based on CMOS, transistors used in power amp are either... | |
| Clearaudio Champion L2 vs. VPI From the design stand point, L2 should be a winner. Take the spindle, Scout to Aries upgrade includes larger spindle, bearing, and platter which is exactly what Clearaudio provides initially. And despite what VPI claims - all acrylic platter is su... | |
| VPI TNT HRX table - what tonearms? so you are the lucky one who got that deal recently, I woke up too late to see the ad... | |
| best shippers? DHL gets my vote, they delivered 2 huge 200 lb boxes from Europe to me safely. But the delivery woman was too weak to bring the boxes into my home, she left them on the drive way... | |
| Upgrade Thiel CS3.6 to CS6?? To claim that Amati Homage is the worst speaker one has ever heard is bold, very bold. | |
| New Teres 360 Edle,Please be politically correct in a public forum.Taiwan makes lots of high end audio and electronic around you, do your research before criticizing any country. I am surprised Audiogon did not block your reply. | |
| Cremona Auditors and Tubes I will not use solid state on Cremona or Auditor. Vifa Ring Radiator loves tubes, make them sound like $500 tweeter. | |
| Who Owns Pure Note Cerulean Cables??? Don't know about Epsilons, but Cerulean is a wonderful cable for the money. My system becomes bright when I put in silver cables, so bright I can't listen to string music for more than 10 seconds. Cerulean is able to resolve detail and create air/... | |
| Current Trends In Home Audio A friend's relative did really well financially when they sold their high tech company before year 2000, they build a 6000+ sq ft house in Saratoga in Bay Area. For those who does not know the demographic, the house is worth $7M+.When it comes to ... | |
| A little levity on September 1st Add one more:"To be honest with you", especially coming from your financial advisor's mouth. So all along he was not honest and only interested in stealing money from you. I knew one. | |
| DLP vs Plasma/LCD merge03 raised a good point.But, and this is a big but, there is no need to continue shrinking plasma cell size because human visual perception has limited range and we can't see anything smaller than a cell size of HDTV panel right now. Regardles... | |
| Sonic Frontiers- Quality and Reliability? And to add to Sutts experience, my Line 3 was better than ARC Ref 1 and I now own Line 3 SE which is even better. In fact, Line 2 "blew away" LS15 which was replaced by LS16.Maybe it is system dependent, but SF Line series are known to be exceptio... |