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| Charging A Fee To Demo An Amplifier In A Brick & Mortar Store Never heard of charging for in store demos. While I see the rationale for the charge, kind of defeats it's purpose by decreasing potential customer base. Also, forget the in store demo, doesn't tell you how its going to sound in your room. Seems m... | |
| What has been your costliest mistake in this hobby? In my early days of diy modding fried out CJ MV-55 after upgrading all caps, still have the fried thing, someday... Another early modding attempt building a mm only phono preamp, adding tubes and many circuit changes, adding step up transformers ... | |
| How many people here generally buy used? Back in early days, lots of brick and mortar audio retailers, purchased more new or demo. Now days, nearly all used, buying new without the ability to hear in my system changes the new versus used equation in favor of used.Also, I tend to modify m... | |
| Tweaks - An Honest Discussion Tweaks effectiveness highly variable. I've found the most transformative to be room treatments, speaker positioning, vibration control, boutique capacitors, resistors, voltage regulators, internal wiring, diy power cords and interconnects.It is th... | |
| Is it all worth it? My analog and digital setups are both pleasurable listening experiences. It all comes down to modes of emotional fulfillment as to which I listen to.Digital streaming with Qobuz, Tidal and rips of over 10k cd's allows stream of consciousness liste... | |
| [help] I'm too Boomer to stream. :-( I started steaming many years ago, very few streamers available at the time. I was pretty much forced to build a diy setup from scratch based on a highly modded mac mini. I now have usb renderers, NAS, optical conversion units, linear power suppli... | |
| What is the most FUN pair of speakers you've ever had and why? It seems whatever speakers I have are the most fun, modifying speakers is my idea of fun. Dahlquist DQ10, mirror image and internal wiring mods. Various models of Alon's, cabinet and driver mods. Merlin VSM-MM, just about every part within BAM and... | |
| Considering simplifying my system... talk me down (or whatever) I've gone down a similar road with the modified Klipshorns, tractrix horns, changed out all drivers and internal wiring. I went with Crites crossovers, which I modded with Jupiter VT, Audyn True Copper Max capacitors, all Duelund wiring, point to ... | |
| Best Tubes on Market today? I've been running 845 amps in my system for nearly 20 years, some noise is inherent to these amps. Relatively high powered SET amp with high efficiency speakers creates perfect environment for creating noise. One effective way to decrease noise is... | |
| Why do YOU love Vinyl/or hate vinyl I too enjoy both digital and analog formats, I don't rate one as objectively better than other. I have optimized both my setups over many years of equipment upgrades, provenance of recordings greatly determines sound quality hierarchy. I also enjo... | |
| Any cable delivers more bass than Cardas Golden Reference? I've owned Merlin VSM for years, I agree they can be somewhat lean. I'm not sure you can do better than Cardas GR with these speakers. I've used, Kimber Bifocal XL's and Purist Audio Design Dominus on other speakers, both have a prominent bass. I'... | |
| Merlin VSM Users- Where is the "Warmest" Location of the BAM? Yes, between source and amp if using DAC with volume control, source and preamp otherwise. I also added a second set of inputs to my BAM as I thought there were resolution losses when going through tape loop on former preamp. | |
| Music lover or audiophile? Whether I'm a music lover or audiophile is situational. I've always enjoyed music played on most any old system because I'm not expecting quality sound. I can become an audiophile at live amplified concerts and audiophile systems. I've always been... | |
| How come Horn + woofer designs are not more popular? My highly modified Klipschorns have an uncanny sense of the breath of life about them. This sense mostly emanates from the incredible micro dynamics I've not yet experienced from dynamic drivers. Add high levels of detail, and transparency and yo... | |
| Disco...yep, I'm going there I've always liked the best from all genres of music. I was big into the blues based rock of late 60's into early 70's. Growing up in Ann Arbor I got to see bands like Stooges, Rationals, Mitch Ryder, MC5, etc. as a young adolescent. Later on weekl... |