swampwalker
Responses from swampwalker
| It was 20 years ago today. . What was your system? Hmmmm. 1993. AR XA table w stock arm and Signet TK7E cart (been w me since grad school), NAD 6300 cassette deck, NAD 504?? CDP, Yamaha C-2a pre, Moscode 300 amp, Monster cables!!!, and Vandersteen 2ci. Still have the NAD 6300 at my house at the be... | |
| Is a hairbrush available? Guilty as charged. "Secret ayyyygent Mahhhhn. Secret ayyyygent Mahhhhn....Giving out your number cause they've taken 'way your name" 'Course I can't carry a tune in the proverbial bushel basket, so those around me requested I keep my adventures to... | |
| Headphone amp for vinyl? I don't think that the source matters all that much, as long as you can get a fixed level signal from your integrated. One factor in choosing a hp amp is the phones you pairing it with. Lots of very good info on that at head-fi.org. I've been very... | |
| no looking back Oilman- Can you tell me where you get the surfactant and dispersant? I bought a home-brew ultrasound unit and the only downside I can see is that it requires quite a bit of fluid and I am having a tough time sourcing those two ingredients. | |
| Holly Williams Yep. I keep waiting for her to come around to New England. Missed her last year when she was here. If you like Holly, check out Tift Merritt and Metraca Berg. | |
| Tube amp heat questions... Bombaywalla- No offense intended to my vacuum-challenged friends here on the 'Gon. Oooops, I did it again!I was TRYING to be nice, but I'm not very good at it! LOL. I almost said "friends don't let friends listen to solid state". BTW, I'm sure you... | |
| Tube amp heat questions... Like Sfar, I can't add to the technical side of this discussion but I will tell you that, IME, in my system, there are 2 extremes in tube amp heat production. Coolest running is the Berning ZH-270. Hottest are Joule OTLs using 8, 10, 12, 16 of tho... | |
| Is California Audio Labs back or who can repair it Jacques- this is a 5 y.o. thread but last I knew, Approved Audio referenced by Kr4, was still in business, had parts for CAL products and did a fine job on my CL-10 a few years ago. | |
| I need help diagnosing a sibilant problem on vinyl search the forum for magic eraser. A home cleaning product that has proven to be a most effective and economical tool for stylus cleaning. | |
| Anyone here have a memory ? Two of my favorite bits: 1 Name that Disease "No, I'm sorry, you've got the plague!" 2 "Domini, domini, domini, you're all Catholics now!" | |
| Anyone here have a memory ? Damn, Mo-fi. You beat me to the punch line. Have fun tubears, but of course our teleporting friend Geoff does read these pages. I've always wondered whether Firesign was funny w/o herbal enhancement. Back in the day, I never conducted that experim... | |
| Speaker's magnetic field and pacemaker PM member jadem6 or write to him through his cable company Jade Audio. He has a left ventricular assist device which I imagine is also v sensitive to magnetic fields. I know he has continued to remain active designing and building i/cs and speaker... | |
| Your Favorite, Most Outstanding Guitar Solo RW- Quicksilver's Who Do You Love...man does that bring back memories of freshman year in college! Of course I also blame a significant portion of my hearing loss on Quicksilver, ca. 1970 show @ Bushnell Auditorium in Hartford, CT. Loved the show;... | |
| $9000 speaker Orangutan or speaker + amplifier Essrand- Sorry; I misunderstood your comment (Coincident Dragon $6500) to mean that you could buy them for $6500. I agree w you, if I could find them at that price, I'd buy them in a heartbeat. | |
| Horning Perikles w Frankenstein amp Thx for the input Markus. A direct comparison btwn a Ren 30/30 and the Franks is very helpful. Which would you say is better at harmonic structure, timber, tone, conveying the emotional side of the music as opposed to soundstaging, imaging, etc, w... |