tonykay
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| Price Increases Thank God for Audiogon! But seriously, I have often wondered who buys the megabuck speakers, i.e. $50K+, brand new in this economy. I'm just glad they do so when the upgrade bug hits, I can buy their second-hand 9/10 cast-offs at half the original... | |
| Parsound ZDAC kind of blowing my mind... Musical Fidelity puts out several models in the M1 line. The power amp and network player are around $500 but I believe the DAC goes for a bit more. Audio Advisor is a good discounter of high-end gear but even they don't discount 75%, unless its a... | |
| Which one box Headphone AMP/DAC combo? Obviously, you have many choices. You should at least consider one of the Benchmark DAC/headphone amp products. They have been well reviewed, transparent, versatile and in your price range. | |
| Speakers to hang on to for LIFE Any Sonus Faber speaker should be held for life. Buy them for looks, keep them for the sound! When you consider the resale value of most speakers, relative to their new price, it just doesn't make sense to sell them. They will always look great in... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? FWIW, I think that it is determined by your personal history. If you grew up loving music and listening to it on a decent stereo through good speakers or headphones, then you realize that your experience can be enhanced through better equipment as... | |
| What's In Your Tape Cassette Deck Tonight? Cassettes have never been out of rotation in my home. I own about two thousand cassettes and play them on two Nakamichis through Stax headphones. I listen to a lot of acoustic, singer-songwriter stuff. Right now I'm listening to Gordon Lightfoot. ... | |
| Blu Ray Audio has any one tried it? Just a comment. I have hundreds of records, thousands of cassettes, thousands of CDs, DVD-As and even SACDs. Now they want us to chase higher resolution through computer audio, high res downloads and the like. It sounds like Blu-Ray Audio is next.... | |
| Yamaha DSP-A1 Amplification in L-C-R Channels See my comment to your other posting for the same issue. | |
| How to fix Yamaha DSP-A1 Considering the cost of shipping your Yamaha in both directions, it would help if you told us the area you live in. My gold Yamaha RX-V1 is currently being repaired locally at a cost of $432, so be prepared. | |
| Thinking about Sonus Faber Stradivari .... I own the early version of the SF Electa Amators, with the wood and marble stands and the Dynaudio Esotar tweeters. I'm still glad I bought them more than twenty years later. They still sound great! I'll buy more speakers but I'll never sell these... | |
| Dissapointed with import LPs..... I used to buy nothing but "Made in UK" records back in the 70s and 60s because they sounded so much better to my ears than US pressings. They seemed less processed, less equalized. Today, I don't see that much difference in CDs that are made in ot... | |
| Nakamich RX-505 Question Harold,The flipper mechanism on my RX-505 got jammed recently as I left it on continuous loop and closed the cabinet door so it was unable to flip the cassette. I took it to Willy and he played with it for a minute and got it working, much to my r... | |
| Best bargain find ever ? I wandered into a thrift store and found ALL of the original Beatles albums in cassette format with the original carrier. 25 cents each, plus $1 for the carrier. The cassettes are like new. Someone probably bought them just before CDs were introdu... | |
| Nakamich RX-505 Question Sorry, Raul, but I haven't revisited this thread in a long time. You can contact Willy at willy@willyhermannservices.com. Good luck. He's reasonable. | |
| Interesting vintage find That's a good combo, just the wrong decade. Time warp! You forgot to mention how it sounded. Probably very good. |