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| Fraud /SCAM Another case of fraud implicated me, but was against another member. Someone hacked into my account and posted a listing of a four channel Mcintosh amplifier for sale for $1920 with the scammer's PayPal address for payment. Fortunately, I received... | |
| Best Sound Track Ever Vote for One Aside from being a gifted musician, one of the most tasteful and skilled rock guitarists (Dire Straits), Mark Knoppfler has written some brilliant sountracks. Two that come to mind are Cal and Local Hero. And the movies are also excellent. When ... | |
| What cable companies make the best cables and sell them directly? Stager Silver Solids - Pure silver in Teflon at $150 for a meter pair, they've have beeen compared to and surpassed far more costly cables. Reviews (several reviewers bought them at full price) and copious user comments at: https://stagersound.c... | |
| A perfect song? What are your choices? Two songs come to mind: The Happy Birthday song. Simple, timeless, even leaves room to improvise, and The Hoagy Carnmichael and Mitchell Parish American Songbook clasiic: Stardust - A brilliant, haunting melody, and beautiful lyrics Marc Stager S... | |
| Can a Amp be "timeless" and compete with todays amps? Lancelock mentioned the Altec Lansing 1570B (170 Watt mono). I have a pair of the Altec 1568A (40 Watt mono), also about sixty years old and they sound beautiful. These Altec theater amps had some of the finest transformers ever put in audio ampli... | |
| Western Electric looking for consumer feedback to make new tubes! Requested thusly: KT-88 - quality equal to (or better than) the original British Gold Lion - but these were GEC, not WE. Doable? My Citation II would be most grateful. | |
| Is Rap a valid musical form? Musical form? HELL NO. It's GARBAGE Though on occasion I have heard some rap with music in the backgrround "sampled" from real musicians. | |
| Who Were Your Mentors Harvey "Gizmo" RosenbergWho taught me how to make the perfect interconnect cable and now I’ve been making them 25 years at https://stagersound.com/silver/Lots to learn here::https://www.meta-gizmo.org/Tri/index-1.htmlA nut and a genius, RIP:https:... | |
| The Most Philosophical Song You Ever Heard Nature Boy | |
| High Fidelity Cables, why most threads about them got deleted ... a 1 meter pair of their Da Vinci interconnects costs $23,500??No kidding.I'd love to compare them with mine; (Google) Stager Silver Solids I bet they'd come out the loser. That price is a farce. | |
| VARIAC: Procedure??? 2 old 30 wpc tube amps, unused for 4 years This is the procedure for an H-K Citation 2, a 60 W/channel power amplifier.You can adapt the steps for your own amp:Powering up a long unused Citation II1. Check continuity of all the grounds. Check thereare no shorts to ground from the B+, bias,... | |
| cassettes CAN sound better than vinyl. The best cassette decks like the Nakamichi Dragon or any of several other high performance Naks (I have a 682ZX) or Tandberg or 3 head Tascams, using Dolby B, are capable of recording a signal with wider frequency bandwidth and less noise than m... | |
| Record Cleaning Machines While what you say is true, the alcohol, mixed with water and detergent, only stay on the surface of a record for maybe 20 seconds, tops, and is thoroughly rinsed away and then dried off. This process may only happen three or four times during th... | |
| Record Cleaning Machines I use an inexpensive "Record Doctor" cleaning mchine - but it doesn't do the actual cleaning.I use a mix of dishwashing liquid and 70% alcohol, and vigorously brush both sides of a record with a fine pure bristle paintbrush, then douse it with a ... | |
| What ever happened to Mark Levenson? re: " spends his time... with his Russian model wife and his 11 year old son...". - and he was married to KIm Cattrall, the beautiful star of "Sex and the City".He (and Kim) wrote this book.Maybe he knows something we don't...https://www.amazon.co... |