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| hifi and record shops in New York City Unfortunately, NYC is heading the way of the rest of the nation when it comes to record shops, big and small.In the last couple of years many of the specialty shops in the Village and East Village have disappeared. The big retailers like Towers, V... | |
| Powercable for the Benchmark dac.1 ??? You'll get alot of differing opinion on this but I've had a DAC1 for one year; tried a couple of power cables and find exceedingly small differences between the stock cable (which IS shielded) and moderately priced aftermarket cables. I think the ... | |
| Do you like Jazz? "New Sounds" can be heard everynight at 11:00PM on WNYC-FM (93.9) and www.wnyc.org | |
| Is there a stereo receiver good sound compact size If you want to go vintage, there's "The Advent Receiver" from the late 70's. Great phono section and compact size.As with all vintage equipment it'll probably need restorative work. Cool retro looks, too! | |
| New law forbidding the sale of used gear Japan The Japanese don't seem to mind those "spirits" when it comes to vintage MacIntosh, Marantz, Western Electric, and JBL equipment. A double standard? | |
| New law forbidding the sale of used gear Japan Isn't this law a response to pollution from discarded electronics; mostly dumped personal computers. Isn't there pending legislation in the EU regarding this? There's alot of toxic material in that stuff! I suppose the same can be said of hi-fi eq... | |
| Denon DVD-2910 excessive vibration? I don't put any credence in the "off-center disc" theory.My Yamaha S1500 played perfectly for seven months, then, started with the vibration business. It does it only on DVD and only after the unit has played a few discs previously. Sometimes a di... | |
| Threshold amps Where can you buy one of these Threshold reissues?Sounds like a great bargain! | |
| Benchmark DAC1. Power cord? I tried a Signal Cable digital PC vs. the stock cord supplied with the Benchmark and could hear no improvment or deterioration.What I did hear were enormous differences with each and every interconnect I tried. I think this is due to this unit's e... | |
| To Cryo tubes or not to Cryo tubes I'm using cryoed EH6922 purchased from ATSI in Florida. These tubes are among the very best in my Audible Illusions L1 linestage.These tubes are barely indistinguishable from NIB/NOS Amperex PQ white label (USA). Compared to non-cryo Russian/Czech... | |
| Denon DVD-2910 excessive vibration? Have the exact same vibration problem with my Yamaha S1500 universal player. | |
| Best movies last two years The best films I've see in the last two years were both on video and they date back to 1944 and 1947."The Curse of the Cat People" (1944). Don't be fooled by the cheesy title. This is one of the masterpieces from the originator of the psychologica... | |
| Why China Isnt Happening Yet China is a "communist" country in name only!In reality, China is a right-wing "facist" dictatorship much like Hitler's Germany and Mussolini"s Italy. Like Germany and Italy, China is now a corporate state (a term coined by Mussolini). The fianicia... | |
| ADS tribute website? There isn't an a/d/s website but once I ran across a site which had a detailed listing of (German) Braun hi-fi products. This may be of use to you as a number of a/d/s designs were, in actuality, Braun products. Perhaps a search of the web will le... | |
| An observation about "Modern" classical music. WNYC-FM (93.9) plays modern classical music.WKCR (89.9) Columbia University in NYC plays modern classical music though it is not a full-time classical outlet. |