stiltskin
Responses from stiltskin
| Preamp Deal of the Century Slowhand,What a brute of a c.d. player the SCD1 is.55 lbs? I bought the 777 shortly after they came on the market back in 2000 and had it modded afew years later.The 777 was my first c.d. player ever. It sure was dark days for vinyl back in the 90... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century These comments made of possibly hurting Suprateks reputaion over acouple of problems, are way off. Micks sales are word of mouth,no amount of money will buy you advertising like this.Slowhand ,I hope Mick was appreciative....The preamp that I was ... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Maril and Opuss,strange problem your having. I do hope you get to the bottom of it..... I have owned a pair of Quad 63s for going on twenty five years.I have had various electronics ,solid state and tube driving them over the years.It took awhile ... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Hi Maril555, I'm no expert in this area, I stumbled through this hobby on and off for 30 years....I have not experienced an annoying glare in the midrange while tube rolling.Except while my new tonearm wire was burning in. I wish I had it cooked..... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Tube rolling with the Supratek pres can be an expensive road to go down resulting in minor effect if any at all.I sold my phono grade black glass Tungsols 6sn7s when the going price of them reached $300,I more then doubled my money. The only selec... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Another point I want to bring up regarding a.c. coming into your home.Residential and commercial construction through out North America in the past few years has been incredible. This has put a strain on the grid in some areas resulting in poor su... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century I once had a louder then normal hum coming from the power supply of my Chenin.I was letting things warm up ,came back into the room. The hum was loud enough that it caught my attention from across the room.First thing I checked was the power and u... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Hi Guys, It could be that Brad is ill or has had a tragedy in his family. Hang in there ,Im shure you will find out soon... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century I recently realized a significate leap forward in musical performace with my modest system.It really knocked me on my ass. Unknown to me all this time I was not hearing what my system was really capable of directly due to cables in my tone arm and... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Hi Slipknot, Just had a look at your incredible system. There are some changes from the last time I looked. By the sound of it, your Chenin has kepted pace with those changes... If there ever was a testimony for Micks phono stages,this is it... | |
| Linn Linto phono stage with Scout/JMW9 Hi Clarets,Thank You for the kind words in your e-mail. You got some good advise from everyone above. The Benz and Dynavectors are good choices for the JMW9. Trying out different brands of interconnects and speaker wire acouple of years ago turned... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Hi Slowhand and Cello ,I went through the entire site of Silent Running Audio.It will be a thrill reading your evaluation. You have one for your Berning amp now and two more on order for your Cortese. No dought you plan on getting one for your tur... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Hi Slowhand and Cello, That hard rock maple alone works very well!I had a local wood mill make my equiptment stand. Its a three shelf butcher block vertical grain slabs 42" wide by 24" deep by 2" thick.The shelves are fixed in place with 1" doweli... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Hi Larry,Definitely I will be in touch with Kevin. I have two sets of Symposium roller blocks,series 2 and the series 3 balls.When first told about the series 3 balls acouple of years ago I scoffed at the cost.BULL SHIT.I borrowed some Symposium p... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Slowhand, You have a good ear. How many hits has this posting got since you started it? ....I'm at a point with my system where some proper isolation should kick it up a notch or two.You and most here know what a thrill it is to discover yet anoth... |