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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Slaw, 100% on the Steve Phillips "Steel-Rail Blues" recommendation. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @spiritofradioThank you for the kind welcome. I'm actually in the Southeast, but have been a customer of Kurt's for years. You are indeed right about having such a great shop in your "backyard." The amplifier and speakers in my system were purchas... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Miles Davis Bitches Brew - 1970 Columbia GP 26 original | |
| Best modern 6550 tube for ARC per-amp Indeed, far from perfect. I could recount/regale endless stories of questionable moves/decisions made over the 40 years in this "hobby"... | |
| Best modern 6550 tube for ARC per-amp So, now one of your proposed strategies is to place a tube of questionable history, possibly fake, and with untold/undetermined hours of use in your $15,000 preamp? Right, makes perfect sense. | |
| 50 WPCish Integrated/Receiver for Apartment Here are two other integrated options worth consideration; the Heed Elixer w/MM phono input included and the Dayens Menuetto. The Menuetto would require an external phono (Schiit Audio Mani?) preamp. Both options would require patience to purchase... | |
| Capped off? They’re actually more for shielding your system/components from RF and EMI. Another positive is they help keep all of your unused connections clean. I’ve used them for years but with tin ears not sure I hear any difference. I do sleep better thoug... | |
| What creative ways have you stored your vinyl collections? I have owned/used the Per Madsen modular system for years. Sadly/happily Per retired. Ryan Tinsel is now hand crafting the same modular component sytem. They look to be every bit as well constructed as the Per Madsen products and he offers additio... | |
| What Have I Bought? Nice! I'm good at spending other people's money. :) | |
| What Have I Bought? To find them in such well-cared for condition is rare indeed. Now to sweeten the nostalgia, find a well-cared for Advent 300 receiver to drive them with. If you are not into head banging or trying to fill a stadium with sound you’ll be very pleasa... | |
| What Have I Bought? Advent actually made several iterations of the Large Advent Loudspeaker. The version you purchased, with the beveled (front) cabinet are the first version with a walnut cabinet. The earliest produced had no protective grill over the “fried egg” tw... | |
| Looking For Candidates For That Mythical 6922 Tube Overall, I have favored Mullard tubes in the past. On the recommendation of Kevin at Upscale Audio I purchased a pair of Matsuhita/National 7DJ8 (6922 replacement) tubes for my headphone amplifier. They are well-balanced top to bottom, very quiet ... | |
| Record mishaps As an afterthought, I probably would have kicked the end table (thus breaking a toe) for being in the way. | |
| Record mishaps I’ve had a number of miscues (pun intended) involving records over the years. Something tells me that over time the odds/statistics of such an event happening are somewhat inevitable. Anyway, to error is human… | |
| Price range to ask for used AR Ref1 and Passlabs X250? If by “process” you mean selling; the good new is that you certainly have desirable products of value to sell. Audiogon would be a good place to start, if you’re considering selling everything yourself. One alternative strategy to consider is sell... |