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| Just a thought on first impressions, items for sale....and your thoughts. Perhaps this is good thing, they expose the truth. Cleaning up and polishing may hide how they truthfully keep equipment. On the other hand, dust and fingerprints may not indicate true condition of internal components. It does show someone not... | |
| If a " system " cannot do this, I move on........ What I think you're speaking of is what I call immediacy, this is what I'd describe as sense of performers in room. First time I heard this was with my first 845 SET amp some years ago. But it was only after hearing my 845, 300B SET's with stock K... | |
| suspending monitors from the ceiling I've heard of people doing it, recall one guy doing it with Merlin VSM. Try it and report on results. I used to hang my cd players and transports from ceiling, best isolation solution experienced vs.. many usual suspects. I'd like to try this with... | |
| Ready For Digital Source...Computer? If you're insistent upon computer server there is the option of Mac mini. You could get linear power supply from Uptone or Mojo, the linear power supply alone will make this best computer solution. While this wouldn't get you to an optimized mac m... | |
| Musical Fidelity Can't recall where I saw this, may have been some online audio zine. Article was about Project's purchase of MF, had many pictures of MF and Project manufacturing facilities, looked top notch. These were somewhere in eastern Europe as I recall. | |
| Tube dampener questions I've been through much tube equipment over the years, in probably 90% of cases no damper preferred. The other 10%, only Herbie's high temp dampers, the ones with metal ring and tiny little o rings wrapped around a white colored plastic piece, work... | |
| Who Tried Power Conditioners Over The Years and No Longer Use Them Today, Any Why? I'll give mine up when power company provides one for my house. I doubt they much care about quality of power delivered to my house. I suffered with 123-126 constant voltage delivery for years, finally had to build bucking transformer so my audio ... | |
| Audiophile virtues Anyone is capable of listening in more than one way. I can listen as audiophile and as music lover. I'm obsessive about my main system, since reaching most of my sound quality destination a couple years ago, listen purely in music lover mode. Lis... | |
| Is this a New Game being played now? One shouldn't make blanket statements about any country being home of scammers, they exist everywhere. I recently purchased relatively expensive item from Viet Nam, no scam. Axpert is correct, everyone was newbie without feedback at some point. I'... | |
| Horn speakers are really bright? Variables include amplification, room, horn materials, for example plastic, metal, wood, quality of crossover. physical layout of mids and tweeters, for example some Klipsch align tweeter closer than mid, result may be excess brightness, high fr... | |
| No Insurance with FEDEX as of 11/01 I talk to the UPS and Fedex guys at my family business on regular basis. UPS drivers union, Fedex not, anything other than Fedex express are contract employees. Many companies we deal with ship via Fedex contract worker services (called Fedex HOME... | |
| Live music you have attended that left impact....perhaps better than you expected. There have been far too many to list here, blues, jazz, folk, classical, disco, reggae, soul, hard core, crooners, punk, rap, electronic, techno, electronic dance music, rock-includes psychedelic, blues rock, garage rock, Top 40 type bands, progr... | |
| Tube Amp, Preamp upgrades -- what did you do that improved your units? Just came across post from Aric of Aric Audio. States he prefers the Miflex to ODAM in his amps and pre's. Just goes to show you're going to find all sorts of preferences in caps and most other boutique parts. I like the Miflex, Audyn True Copper ... | |
| Tube Amp, Preamp upgrades -- what did you do that improved your units? Don't know if you're aware, but Humble homemade has reviews on most top line caps, will give you some idea of sound qualities. I don't think you can go wrong with any of the top rated copper films, the Mundorf Evo might work if you didn't go with ... | |
| No Insurance with FEDEX as of 11/01 Ok, didn't see your clarification prior to my first post. Ok, whats new, we always pay for insurance above some value. can't recall prior value, if this is new maximum for no extra charge. |