vitussl101
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| Does cover art of an album or recording influences your purchase? Yes, cover art influenced a couple of my 1st record purchases. I was fascinated with Pink Floyd's cover art, particularly with Meddle being their latest LP at the local Sears store when Sears still had Record Departments. I purchased Ummagumm... | |
| How close are you to being to your endgame? My system outline and I'm almost there. I only change things out when they fail in some way. My last system I purchased in the mid-eighties, I kept with maybe one or two changes since then, until I had a major meltdown, where my amp, preamp, and speakers imploded. The CD player failed... | |
| Why so many AQ Hurricane PC's for sale? @jasonbourne71, Years ago, I purchased, what I thought was a great deal on new Monster Copper headphones on Craigslist, only to find that I was scammed. One channel almost immediately stopped working. When a dealer looked at it, and we compa... | |
| Why so many AQ Hurricane PC's for sale? Between AQ and its dealer network, they heavily market their product, which makes for large sales numbers that in turn create larger returns, or dissatisfied customers. I suspect, though, percentage-wise, no more than some small companies' return... | |
| Battle of the affordables I'm not thrilled with your list, and have you had a chance to listen to any of those speakers? The amplifier you have acts like a pure voltage source, and I think it sounds great. I was going to suggest a list, but @freediver beat me to it. T... | |
| What happened to Yamaha electronics? There's a lot more to building a good CD/SACD player than just the chip. If that was the case, I guess some of the Chinese mass produced, Amazon sold, DAC, basically the same one sold under a half dozen different names for cheap, is all you need.... | |
| Make speakers disappear. Simple, cheap I'll cover my brick fireplace with velour. Seriously, though, my room is full of art on every wall, sculptures on the floor, and on top of record cabinets. I guess I'm used to having them there, and they don't get in the way of my listening plea... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @olskool I was also wondering about the Boo Plinth upgrade. My local Linn dealer, the oldest in the city, now close to forty-five years, once told me that the lightest plinth available, that would have been Black Ash, was the best sounding vers... | |
| Chronos tweak at Axpona 【 Caution! 】Do not insert Chronos into any electronic device with electronic computer capabilities (e.g., desktop computers, laptops, NAS servers, projectors, car computers,… etc.), in order to completely prevent any form of hardware read or write... | |
| Do You Unplug Equipment During Thunderstorms? No. | |
| a rant @smargo Chasing every fad in audio will not get you to the mountaintop. That's more like an M.C. Escher work where you start to climb the stairs(of audio)only to end up where you started again. Or you're chasing some perfection that never is sat... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade Linn has a way of adopting certain outside improvements to their LP12. Case in point, the Bedrock plinth: The British outfit, "houseoflinn", Europe's Leading Linn Specialists(their quote) came up with a laminated Bamboo plinth, The Booplinth, ... | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) I always thought that audiophiles were a weird-looking bunch. | |
| Is there any such thing as a bad sounding DAC these days? After reading his NYT interview, ask Chad Kassem if there are any good DACs out there. | |
| Does anyone listen to the radio anymore? I'm listening to the radio as I type this. What can I say, I grew up with it, listening to the growth of the FM stations in Chicago. I love WFMT plus I really like all the college stations at the bottom of the dial. They're a great source of ne... |