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| VINYL SUCKS! The major difference for me is digital streaming is about new discoveries, massive genre changes, all within one continuous listening session. Like my favorite mix tape all the time. Vinyl is mostly about nostalgia for me, memories of way back lis... | |
| members and their systems I suspect accumulation is the key to how many get to higher priced systems. I started out many years ago asking the same question; all this high priced equipment, how can people afford it?Starting out with beginner equipment, over many years buyin... | |
| Worst Concerts You Have Attended ?? Easy one here. The absolute worst, Todd Rundgren and Utopia, Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, mid 70's, worse than many high school bands I'd heard up to that point. My friend and I stuck it out to the end, perhaps half of audience had left prior. Big... | |
| Schumann Resonator I started using SR's many years ago, at first a single up near ceiling, front wall, centered between speakers. Sound stage greater height but more recessed than without. Added second near ceiling, behind listening position, centered. This pulled s... | |
| Takedown of pricey servers, streamers OCD HiFi guy My take on value components:1. If one assumes parts quality is associated with sound quality. I want high quality parts vs. lower quality parts.2. Engineering expertise, how those parts are put together. This is more difficult to ascertain, one ha... | |
| Dedicated power Two dedicated lines is the way to go. In my case high current tube SET amp benefited from it's own line. Everything else on other circuit with power conditioner, all digital equipment powered by linear power supplies. Switching power supplies inje... | |
| Does Age Matter? 67, started streaming and ripped cd's about five years ago, changed my listening habits for much the better! Prior to that was mostly listening to cd's with a lesser quality analog setup. I was content with cd listening but the analog revival spu... | |
| A deeper more holographic soundstage. Wow, OP has to be totally confused after all this! Unfortunately, optimizing audio systems is very complex undertaking, lots of good advice through thread. Only personal experience with advice here will get you to system's full potential. Changes... | |
| Does Anyone Think CD is Better Than Vinyl/Analog? Very few could give a definitive answer, one would need to equalize vinyl and digital setups. And can that equalization be proven? Ultimately it would be something like Michael Fremer level analog vs. MSB, Totaldac, etc. And then you have the iss... | |
| Why is there no love for Prima Luna? I own PL Dialogue Four amp, didn't much care for sound in stock form, too solid state for my setup. Modded with Takman carbon resistors, Miflex Kpcu, mundorf film and electrolytic caps, so much better! Newer PL equipment comes with Takmans. I regu... | |
| Audiophile demographics? Applying stereotypes to audiophiles based on sex may be problematic. What is the percentage of males who are audiophiles? Likely less than 1% of total male population. The vast majority of men don't get it any more than the women. I suspect nurt... | |
| What's the best and/or favorite piece of equipment you've owned? And do you still own it? After many years in audio and going through so much equipment, I can't say I miss any particular piece of equipment. My present setup is best I've had, I expect future changes will also be upgrades. At this point in my audio evolution I find I'm ... | |
| Desire to try tubes I run my highly modded Klipschorns with Coincident Turbo 845 SET, Prima Luna Dialogue Four (modded with Takman carbon resistors, Miflex and Mundorf capacitors) and custom built 300b monoblocks. 845 tube way more power than you need for klipsch, s... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling Haven't visited this thread in a while so unaware of IC recipe. I will have to build some double barrel IC's with the vh audio airlock.I built my first Helix pc perhaps a year ago, easily heard upgrade over Shunyata Python and Vh audio Airsines I ... | |
| furutech fp-s022n vs neotech nep 3003 mkIII I built diy neotec 3003 PC with Wattgate, ok, not really all that impressed. I've tried various diy pc over the years, best by far is the Helix diy cable with either Duelund AC rated tin plated, even better is the VH Audio Airlock. I now use the H... |