tksteingraber
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| China built tube amps Nice choice @falconquest. Black Ice (Jolida) tube amps are well designed and sound very good…way above their price point. Great place to start at a great value. Jerrod is a great guy, super helpful and eager to spend time explaining all the det... | |
| Improvement of MacBook Air for Streaming Tidal A dedicated streamer is the best solution but for those who can’t justify the endless $$$ pit I have had very nice success using a MacBook Pro with Amarra software, Tidal Hi Res, an Audioquest jitterbug connected into my laptop with a quality OCC ... | |
| Products you added to your system in 2021 that made most impact to your music enjoyment On a more budget oriented system starting out in this new hobby last year…. 1- High Fidelity Cables NPS 1260 contact enhancer WOW! 2- Fuses QSA Yellow fuses in Raven Blackhawk and Black Ice Audio tube DAC 3- VHAudio ODAM V-Cap’s in my upgraded ... | |
| Budget High Current Power Cords Take a look at vhaudio.com. They sell premade cords and Chris has a Diy page to make your own where you save alot.I made 2 Flavor 4 power cords and others. His plugs are really nice but too pricey for me. I order Viborg solid copper with gold ... | |
| Helholtz Resonators DIY Input @mahgister. Enlightened by reading about the Argent Roomlens resonators. It gave me an understanding in the use of tubes as diffusers and why you moved into them. Not sure I want to go there. I did have a good session with success moving a few b... | |
| Helholtz Resonators DIY Input The Trolls need to find a new playhouse to play in and have Barbe make them some shroom tea that just might inspire some creativity in how they use their time more productively! | |
| Helholtz Resonators DIY Input @mahgister Thank you for you kind input and sharing your expertise. You are an inspiration. I will continue to do experiments with bottles for now to see if I achieve positive results the are worthwhile.No, i cannot and do not aspire to have a... | |
| Helholtz Resonators DIY Input @millercarbon Thanks for the explanation but I already understand those principles through my research. I am looking for some hands on real advice that would be helpful in making the process go quicker and smoother. Tinkering with all the varia... | |
| Need help with MM cartridge choice AT VM540ML is a good choice and allows to upgrade the stylus in their VM line.Nagaoka performs above its price point. MP-110 is below your budget or the MP-150 can be found around $350. The MP-150 stylus can be upgraded to theMP-200 since they sh... | |
| TASK FOR VINYL RECORD FANS! top 3…..Pete Carr‘s ‘76 “Not a Word on it” cost $.25 clean no noise promo copy. Fleetwood Mac ‘70 “Then play on” two words…Peter Green cost $.50Henri Mancini ‘63 “Pink Panther Soundtrack” in free bin. Shocked of the sound quality, really well... | |
| Adding a Turntable Mat @jrpnde Below are instructions on how to apply the fo.Q tape I found very helpful. I bought my tape on ebay from japan at a discount. I hope it works out for you.http://www.foq.jp/foqhp_e/product/ta32.html | |
| Adding a Turntable Mat @millercarbon”Another $30 that is highly effective, Origin Live Cartridge Enabler. This one is highly effective all by itself.”Anyone know where these can be purchased in the US? Only found them at Origin’s sight in UK. | |
| What process do you use to purchase cables? Give Chris a call…he is awesome. Great cable resource if you are DIY ‘er as well. https://www.vhaudio.com/Also, Morrow interconnects have agreed with my set up as well. They offer 45% off all the time.https://www.morrowaudio.com/collections/power... | |
| Cable recommendations for my new (preowned) system... https://www.vhaudio.com/products.htmlI’m a DIY http://www.venhaus1.com/diymains.html. kind of guy and just can’t justify spending big bucks on cables. They also sell them assembled. Great quality at a nice value. Their connectors are nice qualit... | |
| PrimaLuna Evo 200 underwhelming +noromancebefore I went off buying new speakers I would try some tweeks. The 3 tweeks that I saw the most significant improvement in my tube amp system was using: #1-NPS enhancer on all the connections. It makes no logical sense but this really... |