tonywinga
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| Reference System TT - Dr. Feickert Analogue or Sota I have the Star V vacuum right now with a Series VI motor. I plan to carry over my SME309 Tonearm to the Nova. I am using the Soundsmith Zephyr ES cartridge. It sounds great and tracks like it is on rails. I have one or two records that have e... | |
| Reference System TT - Dr. Feickert Analogue or Sota @mijostyn- well said and I share your experience. I bought a Sapphire 3 in 1992 and used it up until last year. I now have a Star V vacuum with the Series VI motor but Donna is building me a Nova VI vacuum which should be ready by December. I a... | |
| An Homage to Long Term Ownership My longest running piece was a Sota Sapphire that I used from 1992 to 2020. Next was my Pass Labs X350- from 2002 to 2021. Now it sits in my son's house. I have had my Thiel CS6 speakers since 2005. The one thing in common is that these were v... | |
| Why are there no tube televisions anymore? Well, when I brought home an AQ Niagara power conditioner to audition in my Stereo I decided it was a keeper. I had been using a Furman Elite 15 PF i power conditioner. What to do-so I put the Furman in the Home Theater system which has a few m... | |
| Cable Goop Review George is going to freak!! I treated the analog side of my system. I have been progressively treating the connections in my stereo system with the NPS-1260. It is a very tiny bottle but seems to go a long way. I treated the pins of the phono cartridge, the DIN connector ... | |
| Thiel Owners To make sure we are talking the same thing- on the first track, the bass drum comes in at 28 seconds. It is a double tap through out the song. I listened to some of the Nameless album. Interesting and well recorded. The vocals are very intimat... | |
| Thiel Owners Thank you for sharing. Using subs adds a lot of flexibility to tuning the system to the room. I also experimented with speaker/sub placement. I like the Thiel's well away from the back wall to create a deep and wide soundstage but that does lea... | |
| Thiel Owners Interesting conversation about the Wilson’s. I heard the Alexia 2’s for the first time about 10 months ago and auditioned them in depth in June. The Alexia’s have fantastic bass. The mids and highs sounded faster than the Thiels but the Thiels hav... | |
| Cable Goop Review George is going to freak!! It is 11:15 AM I just now worked up the will power to shut down my stereo. My whole morning is shot but I enjoyed it thoroughly. I turned on the stereo very early this morning to let it warm up and then I planned to listen to some music for an h... | |
| Cable Goop Review George is going to freak!! The 1260 showed up yesterday. I applied some just to my speaker cable spades on the amplifier side- nowhere else at 3 PM. I let the system warm up for an hour. I didn’t expect to hear any changes but I did. I immediately heard a bigger soundst... | |
| Cable Goop Review George is going to freak!! I get my bottle tomorrow but now I’m wondering about the long term effects of this material. If it takes 6 weeks to gain optimal benefits what happens beyond that? Does the material stabilize and the joint stabilize? What about after one or tw... | |
| Cable Goop Review George is going to freak!! Jerry123, we certainly are all messed up. The minute any of us moved beyond a home theatre receiver and a roll of speaker wire we essentially took the blue pill. Things that I scoffed at in the 90s such as expensive patch cords- well, I now have... | |
| Cable Goop Review George is going to freak!! You guys have convinced me to try this stuff. My bottle is supposed to arrive Tuesday but it is coming via FedEx so who knows. I’m tempted to do the whole system at once starting with the circuit breakers in my dedicated circuits to the pins on a... | |
| Fun With Cable Risers Thank you. No, I have always run the cables in parallel. The risers space the two signal cables 1/2” apart whereas before the risers the cables lay side by side. I try to keep power cables distanced and at right angles to the signal cables. I am u... | |
| If Power Cords Don't Matter... If they don’t believe in power cords because they don’t understand how they work, I’m guessing they do not fly in airplanes either. |