tonykay
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| Questionable service at Soundsmith Some of you are incredibly patient and forgiving, which is lucky for Soundsmith. Waiting a year to find out the status of a cartridge doesn't make sense to me. I would certainly have emailed them after the first three months for a status request a... | |
| recabling my Stax sr-009 to pure copper cable Since the Stax 009 cables are not interchangeable, I would refrain from changing them. To me, that's like changing the engine in a Ferrari to a high performance Chevy engine. It might go faster, might not, but what's the point? If you want a diffe... | |
| What voltage to run my gear...110V or 120V or something in between? Anything is possible, however, I think you're suffering from the "mea culpa" syndrome. I'm no engineer or scientist but I don't think you're to blame. My guess is that nearly everyone on this forum has had some sort of equipment failure, and I dou... | |
| Universal Players vs. Dedicated CD/SACD Players jafant,Just FYI, there is a Pioneer Elite BDP09 on C***list here in the SF Bay Area for $450 (that's very low). He even offered to sell it to me for $400. If I didn't already have one I'd have jumped on it long ago. It's still there today. | |
| Is there a Blu-Ray player that does SACD and has Audiophile quality sound? According to the website, the new Sony player isn't available yet. | |
| Industry Participants I think some are taking this forum a little too seriously, and giving to much weight to the opinions expressed here. We all have preferences on the products we use and recommend. Should every participant state their favorite products next to their... | |
| Closed back headphone recommendation Considering your sophisticated taste in headphones, the choice for me would be obvious- Audeze LCD-XC (closed-back version of LCD-X). | |
| Great week for live music Sf Bay area.. I would love to have seen Natalie Merchant again. We've seen her a half a dozen times in the past. Amazing voice! We would have seen her if she was anywhere in the East Bay (maybe Oakland). Why they only booked her in San Francisco is a mystery to... | |
| Universal Players vs. Dedicated CD/SACD Players jafant,Incredibly, there was a Pioneer Elite BDP 09 on C***list in my area for months, at $500. The seller offered to sell it to me for $450, but it still took another month to sell it. Whoever bought it got a genuine bargain. It wasn't me since I... | |
| Now Keith Emerson is gone... ELP's "Brain Salad Surgery" was a big favorite of mine. Very sad about Keith Emerson's passing. I used "Lucky Man" and "Take a Pebble " as demo tracks to show off my system back in the 70's. | |
| George Martin RIP I have always had enormous respect for his contribution to Beatles music. If you listen to early, unprocessed Beatles songs they were always catchy. But what we hear today is the result of George Martin's ability to refine their music into the mas... | |
| Universal Players vs. Dedicated CD/SACD Players Jafant,No, I bought the Pioneer BDP09 used several years ago from a dentist in Connecticut. It worked great with DVDs, and I only used it recently for Blu-Ray and found it wouldn't play them. Remembering that the dentist had included about six dis... | |
| Losing out Having had similar experiences, I share your frustration. You sound like a serious buyer and the seller has not treated you well. However, "a good convo with the seller" doesn't replace a firm offer. Your story didn't say that you had submitted an... | |
| Is there a Blu-Ray player that does SACD and has Audiophile quality sound? The Sony Blu-Ray players don't play DVD-Audio (not much of a loss). I know their early flagship Blu-Ray (S-1) players didn't even play CDs. If it's true that their current top of the line Blu-Ray player "is their last SACD player", it doesn't soun... | |
| Is there a Blu-Ray player that does SACD and has Audiophile quality sound? Just a reminder...the poster asked for a player that does SACD, Blu-Ray and offers "audiophile quality sound." The Oppo does that (as does the Cambridge). While "audiophile quality sound" is subjective, adding multi-channel or 4K questions to this... |