stereo5
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| Presidents Day HiFi sales I used to make the trip to Boston every year for their Washington Birthday sales. I scored a new pair of large Advent speakers back in the mid to later 70’s. | |
| Are upgraded power cables for subwoofers worth it? My speakers have powered woofers and I use a pair of Shunyata power cords into a Shunyata Hydra 4 plugged into a dedicated Shunyata wall outlet. Not sure if there is that great a difference but I had all of these things hanging around so why not u... | |
| Vintage Japanese DD Consult and Suggestions Please Too bad Chakster is no longer on Audiogon as he was a wealth of information on older direct drive turntables and cartridges. You may want to look through his older posts, a wealth of information there. | |
| Technics 1300G on it's way !! Congrats on the new turntable. You are going to love it. I have had the Technics 1200G for over 6 years and love it. I have started collecting different phono cartridges for my table as it’s easy with the detachable headshell. The PRAT with a... | |
| Any piece of equipment you currently dream of ? I would love the MBL Extreme speakers. | |
| The best opening act you've ever seen & heard? Chrissy Steele. Opening act for Jethro Tull in mid 90’s. Best female rocker I ever saw and what a voice. | |
| LoFi So, what is broken or the problem with your system? | |
| Vinyl Lovers-- Cartridges!!!! Do you have a daily driver? My daily driver is a Shure V15 Type IV with Jico sas b stylus with boron cantilever. I prefer it to my more expensive moving coil cartridges and my other MM cartridges. | |
| Balanced vs RCA preamps Ayre is all solid state, no tubes. The OP wants balanced and rca on a tube preamp. | |
| Removing stylus from Shure V15 Type III @richardbrand , It is well worth the wait. I have an AT VM540, the Shure is better. | |
| Removing stylus from Shure V15 Type III You will love the sound, I put the Jico stylus with the boron cantilever on my Shure V15 Type 4 cartridge. It sounds amazing on my Rock collection. | |
| 2025 Rock-N-Roll Hall Of Fame Nominees The HOF waited for ALL of The MC5 to die before giving them their due. As Roger Waters said, “they can all F off at the bar”. Shame on them, politics is alive and well at the RR HOF. | |
| USB Cables: beginning the rabbit hole When I had a separate DAC, I always got the best results with one of the Wireworld Starlight USB cables. I tried a few from DH Labs, Kimber and Audioquest. The Wireworld was far superior but that was back then. | |
| Dumb question......why do you need a preamp? I have 4 source components, turntable, tuner, SACD player and music server/player. I need a preamp. My 72 year old ears are not that good any longer, I use tone controls now. Never did before and that was dumb, suffering through some God-awful rec... | |
| Directional wires/cables @jea48 , honestly, I don’t remember, it was 50 years ago. I would say through the wire. I don’t know if it was even covered. I always took it as a given the signal goes through the wire. I think at the time, Monster Cable had just debuted. I ... |