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| Shipping advice for Esoteric When i bought my Esoteric UX3 from Ralph at SpearIt Sound, i received it in the triple box weighing in at 77 pounds. It came UPS Ground & insured. It is packed so well in 3 boxes and the main box is suspended in foam inside the other 2 boxes... | |
| My New System Congratulations, what a beautiful and thoughtful system you put together. I hope you have many years of musical pleasure. | |
| SACD Player/Transport Choices I have a McIntosh MCD350 SACD player on one of my Mac system and an Esoteric SACD player on my other Mac system. The Esoteric player is night and day better than the Mac. The Mac sounds a bit veiled compared to the Esoteric. | |
| Looking to Develop A Short List of Amplifier Candidates For A Pair Of JBL 4367 Speakers My GE Triton Reference speakers @ 94db sensitive are powered by a 300wpc McIntosh MC302 power amp. Going from a 100wpc amp to the Mac brought more solid sound, better transients and an overall ease to the music. I would never go back to lower wa... | |
| KT88 Tube Recommendation - Mac MC275 There are only 2000 hours on the KT88 tubes. McIntosh never drives their tubes hard, those tubes are just broken in. Most Mac power tubes last 5000 hours or more. | |
| Need a solid surge protector that’s non-current limiting. All Shunyata protectors are non current limiting. I have 3 Shunyata Hydras in my main system, one of them has a McIntosh humongous 300 wpc amp plugged into it. | |
| What happened to Yamaha electronics? Like I stated above, had an all Yamaha system, hated it, moved on. I have absolutely zero love for Yamaha. | |
| McIntosh MP1100 Feedback I have the C2500 preamp with the excellent MM and MC options. That is a great phono preamp, you cant go wrong for half price. | |
| What happened to Yamaha electronics? I had an all Yamaha mid-fi system around 1988, cold and sterile comes to mind. No body to the music. When I say mid-fi, I am talking an (all Yamaha) integrated amp, tuner, and cd player. I was using Boston Acoustics speakers (their most expensi... | |
| Clone DarTZeel amps? If you look at the pictures of the inside of the clone VS the real deal, you will see why one sells for 2K and the real one sells for many many thousands more. I personally had terrible luck with a Yaquin hybrid integrated amp. It caught fire t... | |
| Turntables with tone arm lift at end of play. In the early 70’s, I sold the Empire 698 or 598 (can’t remember which)Troubador turntable. When we stopped selling them, I could have bought our demo for Pennies on the dollar. At the time I was a poor college student, paying for my books, car... | |
| Cornwall IV V-Cap ODAM and Path Audio resistor modification The Klipsch Cornwall IV is their best sounding generation of the Cornwall line. I listened to them extensively at Audio Classics. If I am ever able to sell my JBL L100 Classics speakers, they will be my next purchase. I would listen to them in ... | |
| Looking for Solid Core Speaker cables I would message Chris Van Haus at VH Audio and see what he can build for you. He carries many brands of cables and bulk wire with high end terminations. He will custom build. I have bought a few custom cables from him; he has always been honest... | |
| Persistent trouble with Keenwood KA-5500 I sold the Kenwood KA5500 back in the 70’s. I believe the amp sold for $300 or $350.00. Most likely the board has a Crack in it or cold solder joints or a combination of both. How do you know it is not the volume control, have you had it tested? ... | |
| Looking for Solid Core Speaker cables There is a person selling a 10 foot pair of Audioquest Indigo speaker cables with spades at both ends. They are solid core wires. I owned a 20 foot pair years ago and I am sorry I sold them. |