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| Price range to ask for used AR Ref1 and Passlabs X250? You have many online resources at your disposal to do your research. Here are three for starters: Audiogon BlueBook, HiFi Shark and completed sales on eBay. Good luck. | |
| Chicago-area dealer recommendation Another plus vote for Music Direct. | |
| High Fidelity Cable Company MC 0.5 waveguide Okay, I have two in the system and my experience regarding break-in was very similar to what “slaw” describes. I tried three, but ultimately preferred the results with two. I would also swear/speculate that they improve the color saturation on my ... | |
| Mark Levinson vintage Preamp & Power Supply (ML-1 & PLS-150) You posted in the right place. This iconic preamp was first produced in 1977. It looks like eBay is your friend when it comes to determining value and actually selling the preamp/power supply. This preamp was very advanced in its day and utilized ... | |
| Marantz Go to eBay and look under completed listings for real-world values. In general each unit looks to be worth somewhere between $500 and $600. If they are in perfect condition functionally and physically then the values could/would be higher. Origina... | |
| Moving tube equipment What a load. There are zero issues with transporting your tube amps in the car for an hour or so. (Any defensive/evasive driving maneuvers excluded.) As a precaution, after you have them located/placed in their new environment it wouldn’t hurt to ... | |
| Do any still use an older high end tuner from the past?.... Not entirely on topic, but I do still own a McIntosh MR71. Over the years, and living on the left coast, there were excellent FM stations to listen to. Classical music, a college jazz station and two classic rock stations were just some of the cho... | |
| Power Amplifiers Belles ST150A Hot Rod and Pass Labs Aleph 30 are still in use. | |
| Need advice If you can forego nostalgia Yogiboy’s recommendation makes a lot of sense. Back to nostalgia, you might consider one of these three brands to keep within your targeted budget: Teac, Akai (with glass heads) & Pioneer. If gone through properly... | |
| Trivializing AudiogoN...........ie: what I have is the best... The general definition of Choice Supportive Bias from Wikipedia: The tendency to remember one's choices as better than they actually were. In this respect, people tend to over attribute positive features to options they chose and negative feat... | |
| You are invited on a "trip down memory lane". Most wanted to have back, in no particular order: MAC MC30’s, Precision Fidelity C7A & Levinson No.29. Mjcmt: I’m with you on the Pass Labs Aleph 30. I have one and regularly rotate it into my system. It has a musical purity that is amazin... | |
| Usless but interesting ....how many of you old timers started with original Large Advents? Stacked Advents (large, walnut) in the bedroom. Triple Advents for a very brief time until my folks proclaimed: “not here.” | |
| Trade all my Amazon Alexa Echos for Sonos for whole home audio? Another variable to consider is that although you have "1GB" service, it may not be actually providing anywhere near that speed. Full disclosure, I'm an AT&T customer and not a fan. | |
| Harbeth Compact 7's Both Mistral and LFD electronics are an excellent match with Harbeth loudspeakers. | |
| PrimaLuna preamps. Use of 5R4GY tubes instead of 5AR4 / GZ34. Yes or no? yukio:I have used them (Philips 5R4GYS) for several years now. Improvements are a little more warmth on the top end and a small increase in sound stage width.I failed to mention the Philips tube is substantially taller than the stock 5AR4 tube and... |