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Back to the DAC
I understand…especially the stranger variety seems to attract tube de jour..or hour… i’ve rolled a few in the Pandora but fewer than 4 variants x 2 positions…. best wishes for 6SN7 happiness   
Back to the DAC
I have yet to hear a Bricasti i couldn’t live with, but i can say same about Lampizator and Aesthetix. I lean to a very well engineered tube output that behaves well feeding a tube preamp. Ive heard a Rockna in a well sorted system that was also v... 
Townshend Isolation Products.
@barts Sounds like a great system - I built and modified Hafler kits on Sunday for extra $, which i poured into….. tubes… ha. We carried CJ,,, ARC was the enemy…. funny how things… change.. Best in music - i greatly enjoyed your journey story…..  
MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY?
An act of clarification; TT includes effective isolation… HRS grade or better…  
MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY?
Somebody s mentioned Signet and Grace, i have both an TK-9ea and an F-9 w Soundsmith Ruby OCL. Both are excellent… especially as the allow me to get around the FET front ends of both the Herron and ARC Ref phono front ends….…..but i wouldn’t trade... 
MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY?
@rauliruegas I mentioned the 404 because i sold probably 50 of them in the Eighties,,,, i started in a Grado centric shop in 1978.. As you may also recall the 80’s shop displayed and sold the ADS 2030 you mentioned. Fun.  I would submit for @lewm... 
Looking for advise and recommendations on a nice record cleaner.
@wfowenmd Right on Perfect Vinyl Forever is excellent and an affordable way to evaluate IF a person values US cleaning before making a deeper $€£¥ plunge. I bought two consecutive MoFi and ran one thru enzyme the Nitty Gritty, sent the other to P... 
Looking for advise and recommendations on a nice record cleaner.
Sorry if some sage has already mentioned it…. but contaminants pre and post process are EASY to see under black light…..  carry on  
What if a high end speaker measures really badly?
@helomech For sure…. i don’t even see much evidence of level matching…. or a basic understanding of the noise floor of the listening room. But we can certainly model some good behaviors and practices…best to you in music  
MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY?
Collect em all and win. Flavorizers aka pleasure seeking has a big place w studio music where the intention is not accuracy and in anything coming out of a DAW. But flavorizing does not obviate the need for some from seeking better reproduction of... 
Townshend Isolation Products.
@barts It has to be a wooden nickel…. Congrats on Hartley - store i worked at sold Hartley subs and drivers long ago in the golden age….  
San Diego Audiophile group?
we are probably in the Audiophile rogue code section of the Matrix….   
San Diego Audiophile group?
good idea Jerry. i sent you a connect request.  I can be found James B Davis Quantum Computing…. and other interesting gigs…  
San Diego Audiophile group?
Roger that Gabor !  
San Diego Audiophile group?
Hopefully the moderator…. jimtrish247@icloud.com