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| Focal Diablo EVO Utopia: Cosmetic Changes or More? The only thing I would be concerned about is how to get the Utopia Floorstander in there to replace the monitors. | |
| Received a Bill for State Tax on An Amp Bought in Canada Last Year I never figured out what these complainers of California are complaining about?As a native who just doesn't give up on his great state, you simply have to know what you doing here and how to do it. You also learn to deal with the homeless/ mental... | |
| New Kiseki blackheart cartridge not sounding right. "cantilever and stylus are so far underneath the body it makes trying set the overhang and horizontal tracking angle almost impossible. You just can’t see"Looks to be the same arrangement as the PH/Blue.I have terrible vision. A good light and mag... | |
| How do you know what your weakest link is? "I'm almost sitting on them. 46" from front wall and 25" from side walls. Bass is slightly boomy, but bass traps eventually."Yeah, you have a lot of speaker in that small room. "I've considered the Chinook, but I've seen many reports of noise, p... | |
| How do you know what your weakest link is? had a dealer tell me there isn’t going to be a major step forward going from my $1500 Nova III to the Modwright 9.0/x. At double/triple the pricepoint from 9.0/x how can this be? Anyone else please feel free to help educate me."The tube phono pres... | |
| Why is science just a starting point and not an end point? Getting things to a minimum "technical spec" level that everyone agrees on is one thing. What the ears actually like is another. Science/technical data will be of no help otherwise. Subjective, subjective and subjective.Be more concerned about yo... | |
| How do you know what your weakest link is? The weakest link is the one YOU think is the weakest link.The Modwright will give you a tube perspective(flavor) to your LP playback. Try it, you may like it. Many here do. Tube units subjectively sound more organic. You just put up with a little... | |
| Speaker in car boot on hot day You have likely damaged the kniffle bearings. Operator error-no warranty claim for you. | |
| New Kiseki blackheart cartridge not sounding right. Try all the excessive sibilance troubleshooting recommendations. If that fails, time to have it looked at by a shop, or someone who makes house calls.I have a Blue and have been curious about the Blackheart That's a $4K cart-it better sound like one! | |
| The birth of a new thread dedicated to sharing our newly-acquired "old" LP's. Found a mo betta copy of Beach Boys "Deuce Coupe"This one- a REAL good copy!https://www.discogs.com/The-Beach-Boys-Little-Deuce-Coupe/release/8244192A friend of my father had a 64 Impala 409, and I still have the vague memory of riding in the ba... | |
| Feeling the Spirit! "It sounds incredible for a 1969 recording."Good, reference quality recording started a decade or so earlier. For R&R/pop, maybe a few recordings start showing up mid 60's? | |
| Bobby Whitlock on All Things Must Pass. Great perspective on what was going onhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui2VSY6OTXIMaybe ATMP will be one of my rare reissue buys this year? When a musician, and NOT a producer type talks about liking an upcoming reissue, that catches my attention.I... | |
| Blindfold Speaker testing So the point source was 1 speaker(1 box)r vs 2 boxes of the other brands playing a mono recording?If that's the case, doesn't surprise me. | |
| Joni Mitchell, BLUE album is 50 years old, NYT Article Just thought to add some Blue history to this threadhttps://www.yahoo.com/news/those-congas-jonis-blue-thats-130047527.htmlI'm sure bdp24 can add additional color to this. Just another period of music that will never be matched. | |
| Ortofon Century Turntable…Any thoughts or experiences? Your two other considerations are likely much better performers.The Concorde was just a spruced up $1K Project Classic. |