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| Arthur Salvatore WoW comments?? Stereokarter--why would you never read this thread again? What displays of folly and sarcasm! What skilled turnabouts! What practical advice and comradery! What a style of lugubration! Agon--we all know the danger was everpresent if the censors ev... | |
| Arthur Salvatore WoW comments?? Detlof, now that you are cranked up to Joyvcean pitch again, here is a question (already answered by the posts here, but ...): are audiophiles psychoanalyzable? Seriously, aren't we all those schizophrenic little boys with their desiring machines ... | |
| Arthur Salvatore WoW comments?? I am new to audiogon and I am trying to find the threads: "international audiophile carnival"; "how to get the system you want through one simple applied action"; "hot tips for jail and looney bin"; and "twiddle-dee-twiddle-dum" Have I found them? | |
| How does one get off the merry-go-round? As a child, I listened to high-end audio in its infancy through my father's system (McIntosh, Marantz, JBL, Akai, you know the stuff). Later, I went to university and played music professionally. My system was the worst, cheapest junk imaginable: ... | |
| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit Redkiwi, I am jealous. It cost me 50 times more in cables to get the "vibrant" sound you describe ("room full of music"). Just for the scoreboard: exactly how many hours break-in did the OTAs need before you were sold? | |
| Who has tried all these power cords? FIM Gold is stiff and unwieldy, but, yes, superb: increased focus, bass control, detail, dynamics, absolute focus, and very open. Nicely constructed. What do FIM Golds sell for used? Why are people selling them? | |
| Who has tried all these power cords? Many people here would probably choose the Whale Elite over the others for both price and performance. See the posts on the Black Mamba vs. Whale Elite thread. | |
| Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit Redkiwi, you lone ranger! Do you have the OTAs between your TT and the phono stage as well? This is the one connection I can imagine where a thin cable might work superbly. Based on your positive experience, I am going to try to convince the Europ... | |
| Audiomecca Mephisto Lurne's big passion is rose gardening. (I have often wondered if the name of ML's "Red Rose Music" was an unconscious transfer). Anyway, Lurne refuses to work on audio projects on the weekend so as to devote himself to his garden. It raises a ques... | |
| Audiomecca Mephisto Thank you very much, rcrump for the useful post. I will definitely contact G&D to get the clocks and output boards. I agree that the cosmetics of Mephisto II are beautiful... only if they could get the electronics up to the level of the design... | |
| Audiomecca Mephisto Rcrump, what clock and output modifications are you referring to? The clock would be easy to modify, I realize, but I did not think it was a problem when I heard this unit. What output did you modify (there are three to choose from)? What were the... | |
| What is your OTHER passion? Yes, Stereokarter, the majority here seem to be scourched inwardly by the passion for advanced audio technology--a modern and most hellish vice. (Why did not God anticipate Mark Levinson and Goldmund and include "Though shallt not reproduce the di... | |
| Audiomecca Mephisto After a further six weeks of experimentation with the Mephisto II transport, I want to retract one statement I made before and give some tips on tuning and modification. First, the retraction: adding a superior PC does significantly improve the Me... | |
| Is 500 hours of break in really nec.? Re. "familiarity factor" in break-in. During the first 5 minutes I listened to my NBS Statements, all I could think was: this sound is so gigantic, so "over the top," so steroidal ... I wish I could have this sound ready "as a secret weapon" anyti... | |
| Insolvency Elizabeth, Swampwalker--I think the owner (a young, passionate audiophile) needs some time away from his business to mourn its demise and, slowly, to reorient himself. |