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| The cool factor- who has it? When i envision cool its always 50's jazz artists that first come to mind, Thelonius Monk is the epitome of cool for me. Walking around on stage, humming, and that unique, sort of disjointed piano style, and the hip clothing, one suave dude! And I... | |
| Your first concert was to see who and when? I actually lived in Ann Arbor, we used to take the City bus which came right through our neighborhood to UM campus. We were like 12 when we first started this so I was pretty young during 'summer of love'. So many legendary bands based in A2 and t... | |
| Audio Research SP9 MKI tweaks Sp9 Mk III was probably the most disappointing component i've purchased over many decades in audio. This hybrid pre sorely lacks resolution, transparency, in this case absolutely true, you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Other than try... | |
| Selling towers - keep getting bad actors/scammers when doing local pickup only. Wow, no scammers! Doesn't matter what I list, Craigslist is a scammers paradise. Facebook Marketplace has it's fair share, easier to spot as they generally have some pretty strange 'friends' and no content. I totally expect it with every sale, mo... | |
| Attention Horn Owners What 300B's are you running? The 'premium' tubes make all the difference. I originally ran the Shuguang Black Treasures, generally considered one of the best or best of the 'affordable' 300B. Then moved to Psvane Acme, wow, that woke up my custom ... | |
| Attention Horn Owners I don't know if you've seen measured specs and/or reviews from Stereophile, but here is one account, https://www.stereophile.com/content/audio-note-e-lexus-signature-loudspeaker-audio-note-espe-he-august-2008 May, 2006 issue has specs on Lexus ver... | |
| Modern EL34s VS NOS Winged C - and return policies? I always preferred EL34 in my push pulls, Kt's just don't have the magical mids of EL34. I was lucky in that I was using push pulls during time frame the 'good' SET were in production. I have a stash including some Black Sabre, a cryo'd version of... | |
| Do I still need a DDC in between? @lanx0003 I don't know what you're problem is, yes, I'm agreeing with you, the ddc clock bypasses the dac local clock, I've only said the same thing time after time! Perhaps I've called it internal I2S clock, local clock, master clock, its all the... | |
| Maximize Mini with Roon to match my system -- or new component? Per the PL upgrades the Duelund CAST coupling caps and I believe the VHAudio caps on bias board OP in that thread are A+ choices. These will provide the qualities you seek. By the way, the PL was part of my amp rotation along with Auralic Vega dac... | |
| Buying used from Canada Spin the wheel and see what number pops up. I ordered pair of Psvane WE101D tubes directly from Psvane just the other day, they state on website any tariff included in price, and the price was nice! Now I may get a big surprise when it reaches US.... | |
| Maximize Mini with Roon to match my system -- or new component? Not at all, your setup very nice, Pure Audio Project speakers would be on my have to listen list if I were in market for speakers. I previously owned PL Dialogue amp, the Holo is nice. You could also look into some fairly easy mods for the PL, thr... | |
| Attention Horn Owners @earthbound I too would not be so quick to ditch the AN. Coincidentally, I just so happened to read an Art Dudley review of the AN-E Lexus Signature in Stereophile, May 2006 issue. Dudley loved them, I seem to recall some version of them was his r... | |
| Old SS amps A variac is absolutely the way to go if not sure about caps, you can reform then through a process of starting off with low voltage and increasing in steps. Also, I'd open up and visually check every cap, look for leakage, swelling. | |
| I'm Just Not Hearing It..., Do You??? Don't need super high resolving system to hear it. Now I suppose they could remove it during remastering, I don't know why they would but its possible some remaster out there has eliminated it. | |
| DDC With I2S in and Out I too would like to see I2S added to Gaia. I presume some generic switch would have detrimental affects for sound quality, we do all this optimization of interfaces, can't believe this wouldn't have some detrimental affect. On that subject, all th... |