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| Whats playing on your system today? @jafant Hilarious memory of seeing Black Flag at Pontiac, Michigan venue back in the day, same night Pope was appearing at Silverdome. Spike haired, chains, leather, nose and body rings passing by pure polly and paul purebreds on street, totally h... | |
| Does Formula 1 racing and high end audio go together for anyone else? I observe road racing, both cars and bikes is Euro centric, straight line and ovals an American obsession. Wonder if there's correlation between type of racing preferred and audiophiles. Speaking of nitwits, got out on the bike yesterday for f... | |
| hana sl or one of the AT-ART9? Recently, I've been looking at the three cartridges you mention for upgrade. I have more gain with my phono stage, so based on my research of reviews I'd pick the XA. Assuming you have enough gain XA is the way to go. | |
| Audiophile Grade Wall Receptacle Oyaide R1 is very nice. I tried a number of receptacles with my power conditioner and wall outlets, combo of R1's and PorterPorts is what I ended up with. | |
| Can my Roon Nucleus be used with a non-Roon-ready DAC? There is no such thing as Roon ready dac. Nucleus has hdmi, usb and ethernet ports. HDMI for use in system with non-usb dac, usb for ANY usb ported dac. Generally speaking, dac is more important than server to final sound quality, not to say Innuo... | |
| Linlai Elite vs Psvane Acme 845 @zipost My experience with power tubes is they need a minimum of 100 hours, you should hear a greater sense of openness, bloom starting around 80 hours, may take up to 150 or more hours for full bloom. I recently purchased Psvane Acme 300B tubes, ... | |
| Can a great system make a mediocre recording sound good? I'd never want a system that could only sound great with the best recordings. To that end I've always voiced my systems to sound GOOD with mediocre recordings since this is where the vast majority of music resides. As I and others have mentioned, ... | |
| Holo may lte vs denafrips terminator 2 vs musetec da005 While I can't offer any listening perspectives on Holo or Denafrips the 005 hasn't any defects I've been able to discern in aprox. two years of ownership. I've been through quite a number of general system upgrades, mods, and streaming network ch... | |
| AliExpress & Linlai Tubes- Anyone have experience? Purchasing Linlai from Chinese sellers has not been good experience for me, two failures of 101D tubes. You should realize Chinese sellers getting tubes from Chinese stocks with much more variable quality. North American sellers who purchase in re... | |
| Every day I see another turntable recommendation... All I can say is I was somewhat disappointed with tt's in price range of $1k-$5k area, this including arm. Always had issues with at least one area of sound quality in this price area. I had various phono stage in price range of $500-nearly $3k an... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC Romazicon's experience just goes to show how much synergy matters in system. He has a very resolving system and I believe his impressions legitimate. I too have seen less than stellar reviews of earlier iterations of Amamarro usb boards. I've ... | |
| My First DIY Power Cable The various Helix DIY recipes are great, I've tried various Oyaide, Furutech and Neotech recipes over the years, Helix with VH Audio AIrLock are winners at present. | |
| What are you streaming tonight? @big_greg I just discovered Wet Leg from NPR review, they're on my to play list tonight. I agree with your comments. Two more for tonight's streaming session: Trees-On The Shore. Somewhat like Fairport Convention, little harder edged and even... | |
| AN Niobium versus Tantalum resistors? Sure is nice we have so many boutique parts available to us these days. My present recipe has combo of Takman Rey, Rex and Z foils in various equipment. AN Niobium more resolving than Z foils, that's really saying something! | |
| Can a great system make a mediocre recording sound good? For me it depends on what makes a mediocre recording mediocre, by the way, I'd judge a large proportion of recordings as mediocre. I've found mediocre recordings that formerly had timbre, sound staging and/or were less resolving have become much m... |