stevecham
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| Do electrolytic caps need burn in? The best thing you can do for electrolytic is to cycle them on-off as you would normally in listening sessions. What helps caps is to form the electrolyte (the "burn in") and this is best accomplished by cycling them as you would by normal turn of... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect? | |
| Which wood Grado last_lemming: I too have an SL1200GR and Thiel 2.4s and I have a Grado Sonata that sounds pretty good through the rig (Manley amplification). I also have an Ortofon Black that is priced similarly and I think it is a superior cartridge compared to ... | |
| How do you store and catalog your vinyl? Alphabetical by composer, band, artist. Within a given letter it is totally disorganized though I tend to try to clump like composers, bands, artists for ease of grab. Years ago I bought these white plastic dividers with big black letters so I can... | |
| What the heck is up with the audiogon listing photos? Students of Marketing 101 run amok. | |
| Does hearing the best in high end audio make your opinions more valid? Calvin: When I say the best I mean what I actually mean those pieces that are supposed to be really great based on the reviewers and the industry guys that supposedly say they are."supposed to be really great," and "that supposedly say they are."B... | |
| $1000-1500 range for phono preamp... what to buy? +1 on Chinook and JC3 | |
| Listening Height Adjustment -- Is This Why Two People Don't Hear the Same? The room matters greatly in this discussion. There will always be null and standing wave nodes that can vary greatly from one another, dependent of course on room dimensions and speaker placement. And why not? It’s simply a function of wave physic... | |
| Who wants to return to the previous Audiogon list format? The keyhole view devalues everything, creates unecessary frustration, and diminishes the look and feel of Audiogon.I don't know who Audiogon hired for their marketing team but clearly they didn't take Marketing 101 and whoever approved it and made... | |
| Suggest some integrateds for my Monitor Audio Silver 2 Manley StingrayNAD C326BEEI own both and they're keepers. | |
| Suggest some integrateds for my Monitor Audio Silver 2 Manley StingrayNAD C328 BEEI own both and they're keepers. | |
| Does hearing the best in high end audio make your opinions more valid? Depends. I used to go to hifi shows and listen to big expensive esoteric systems I wouldn’t be caught owning in a million years, even if I had a million to spend on such a thing. Curly-spiral-shaped speakers that looked like they come off the set ... | |
| Budget/value SS power amp recommendation NAD is good value and sound. | |
| Who makes the highest quality tube amps? Manley Labs and conrad johnson. | |
| Pre for the Manley Snapper pryso: If it has gain it’s a preamp. |