trelja
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| What's happened to the used high end market recently?? Sales are tough....:0( @grannyring phenomenal post! | |
| DENAFRIPS DAC ---- Owner Impressions, Feedback, General Discussion, Questions and more.... Referring back to our auditions with the DENAFRIPS products at Vinh’s, I just wanted to summarize a few things:The DENAFRIPS products, from the Ares all the way up to the Terminator are excellent sounding DACs. I believe at less than $700, the Are... | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? @almarg superlative perspective, and as always, sage advice.Thank you, Al | |
| Art Dudley Calls B.S. but without naming names - PLEASE DO! @mrdecibel thank you for your memories of the 1996 Stereophile Show. Have no idea why I didn’t head up, but I certainly wish I was there. I did get my first Jadis within 2 years of that.I’ll guess your friend is Victor Goldstein? Supposedly, a fab... | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? @almarg Thank you for your perspective, Al.As always, you raise an excellent and most salient point in regard to rectifiers.As I considered what you said, I HAVE noticed the differences between types ("normal diodes" vs HexFred, 5AR4 vs 5U4 vs 5R4... | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? @csmgolf "Clearly the answer is no, he @georgehifi is not man enough."You're right, Cris. He answered the question clearly. All he needed to say was that I was mistaken. Seems as easy as falling off a log, and yet...Did you notice how he got so... | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? @georgehifi "BTW: are you a "fuser"? I think I may have seen you be pro fuses in posts and what "magic" they can do ."Before we get started on that tangent, you continue to skirt responsibility for your Stereophile mistake. Again, simple question,... | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? @georgehifi "Here is a person you should kneel to as he is one who makes active preamps for a reason which I’ve outlined, yet he is man enough to tell what it is about passives that’s the real deal."Kudos to Nelson for being man enough.Speaking of... | |
| Beware the audio guru @cleeds, thank you for initiating this thread. I agree with so very much of your sentiment.Personally, I found the creepy stalker and his $25K challenge both ridiculous and disgusting, and lamented the several here who engaged him as giving a for... | |
| Stan ( “stanwal” ) my he forever RIP Thank you for letting us know. Sad news, indeed. May he rest in peace | |
| NAME SOME RARE AUDIO ITEMS THAT DID NOT TAKE OFF BUT SHOULD HAVE & WHY.HERE'S MY LIST @lewm thank you for relaying your experience with the IMFs. I smiled when reading you reacquired your incredible homegrown pair.Bud (Irving M.) Fried was one of the true pioneers in audio, and a lion of this industry. Doubtless you know, but after... | |
| Talk but not walk? I don’t see how we can put Michael Green into the same category as Roger Paul.As a result of the aforementioned thread where Roger went back and forth with several folks here, claiming to have created an amplifier exponentially better and differen... | |
| What's happened to the used high end market recently?? Sales are tough....:0( @jimman2 Mullica Hill is a nice town. Not sure if you know Big Daddy Graham, but back a decade or more when I used to listen, he often talked about vinyl. Might be a customer of yours.I sometimes pass through on the way to the shore. Though I’m no... | |
| NAME SOME RARE AUDIO ITEMS THAT DID NOT TAKE OFF BUT SHOULD HAVE & WHY.HERE'S MY LIST Transmission line loading actually has far more impact on midrange than bass. But traditionally, folks have concentrated on low frequency performance, considering it the sexiest part of loudspeaker design.The very many posts on amplifier distortio... | |
| New Rega Planar 6 @etnier discussion of build quality and plinth ’sagging’Hmmm...folks here have also called the RP8 out for sagging, so this very well may represent a design defect ala this foam material core. While it certainly expresses Rega’s philosophy of low-... |