tomic601

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Ø Audio anyone?
The Verdante looks interesting…. USA importer / dealer ?… fun  
SHIPPING speakers?
@lonemountain Thanks Brad… appreciate knowing it’s all built to order… @patrickdowns Will do ! April ish to chase fish  
SHIPPING speakers?
@lonemountain I remember your connection to ATC. Curious how those are packaged coming over the pond and say for example..on to TMR ? It’s a serious inquiry.. @patrickdowns  So glad you got a local sale…. I’m praying for that in the Spring…. Bes... 
A question about tube rolling
AI is also an aggregator of misinformation, sometimes hallucinating facts, including citations of precedent in legal proceedings… but hey…. ?   Please do forgive me my David Crosbyesqe snark….  
A question about tube rolling
deepseek is deaf…  
A question about tube rolling
Like pairing wine with food… without more data about the seller…hard to know…but value is always in the ear of the listener… I am w Mike about the tube box not extracting the full measure of Koetsu…magic… finally so glad to hear of your joy solo... 
C53 Pre Amp - McIntosh
buy an ad …….  
Can you do anything to make power tubes last longer ?
No… luck as I inherited the MAC which i abused as a young punk… The Music Reference connection born of my experience selling gear Roger designed and built w Harold Beveridge… also imo a genius… RIP….  
Can you do anything to make power tubes last longer ?
The 60’s Mac amps also very famous for long tube life… I have some 1965 tubes … Tele that still test well..  @whart I need to copy your dusting rigor…. wow…. i would never get away with photo like that…..  
Can you do anything to make power tubes last longer ?
i find the deep dish pizza to be he$$ on the white gloves….  
Can you do anything to make power tubes last longer ?
As Roger Modjeski well understood, the SOE safe operating envelope for a specific tube is not a few points… hence a deeper understanding of both amplifier design with a dual focus on reliability and sonic engineering… the now ancient RCA SOE diagr... 
Equipemnt to Music to Lyrics
oh…. and of course…Leonard Cohen… in particular The Book of Longing… on copy thirty or so…. i give them away  
Equipemnt to Music to Lyrics
I read some Poetry…i suppose push came to shove I like Wendell Barry, Jim Harrison, Ted Kooser , even i suppose when feeling silly sonnet constraints…stuff like Sonnets of the Wingless Hours. One of my dear friends, quite the Jazz and art connois... 
Phono stages: Hagerman and Sun Valley 1616 possible giant killers
thx.. i know @bkeske aka Brian @noromance also a Brian… I haven’t heard Brian K Hagerman but believe he has found a CBS Hytron he loves w variety of carts including a Benz. Maybe he will weigh in Welcome to another episode of Life of Brians….  
Pure Silver Wire
reminder to NOT feed the trolls… Science and our understanding of it  is hardly perfect, including the ear / brain