vuch
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| Does other Audiogon members' opinion carry any weight for you ? In one way or another this forum has had an influence on my rig. I first learned about my phono pre from reading threads on this forum. After speaking with Keith Herron on and off over a couple of years he called me and asked if I still wanted hi... | |
| How much do I need to spend to make vinyl sound better than digital? Spend as much as you can on your vinyl front end also include software and ultrasonic cleaning machine. You only live once. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Select tracks from: Prince-The Vault, Led Zeppelin-Houses of the Holy, John Coltrane-Ballads, Smashing Pumpkins-Siamese Dream, The Rolling Stones-Let it Bleed, The Police-Zenyatta Mondatta. A buddy was over for two hour a listening session. It w... | |
| Help me choose a phono pre You can't go wrong with a Herron VTPH-2a if you can find one. A brand new black faced one was just sold to somebody in NJ for $2850. It came from the estate of an audiophile that hadn't even had an opportunity to try it in his rig before he passed... | |
| AXPONA 2025 I was there all three days. It was the first hifi show I've attended. I bought a few records, had a blast meeting up with friends and attending after show hour listening parties. I'm pretty wore out today. | |
| Anyone wear gloves to handle vacuum tubes? I use special hand stitched, exotic leather, custom made "Audiophile Hand Enclosures - Explicitly designed for handling vacuum tubes and touching high end audio gear." I got ’em from the emperor’s tailor. | |
| Do You Unplug Equipment During Thunderstorms? Starting in March I unplug the rig from the wall every time I’m done with a listening session. I start leaving the rig plugged into the wall around late October. A fellow audiophile had his new AR integrated tube amp blow up from a lightning stri... | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) I laughed. Funny how? Why is this so F%#$&ing funny? Funny cartoons, funny topic, just funny. I haven’t read any of the comments yet. I dig vinyl. It’s just incredible when you get the right rig and find that elusive pressing that kills every... | |
| Has it all been worth it? Glad to hear of your health recovery, as that is THE most important thing we all sometimes take for granted. It's a great feeling to have, when listening to music, that very moment when you think something sounds the best it ever has. After all ... | |
| Who's winning? I can't remember a more entertaining group of posts to a thread than this one? It's always good to get caught up on some John Stuart Mill quotations. My answer to the question is yes, everybody's winning. The only guy that's not winning is the ... | |
| At the top of the line is it really all that different? Thankfully, regarding your question of which I was wondering the same thing; the answer is, wait for it... YES! I've been playing around with my 2nd system lately. This gets a little interesting. After the last time I listened to the rig I took ... | |
| NEW Tekton Design Speakers - The Bonnevilles No thanks. | |
| Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords? They absolutely do! I had some cheap monster cable RCA's connected and we switched in some Cardas Clear RCA's. The improvement in sonics was very noticeable. In fact CD's sounded better than my streaming front end where before streaming always so... | |
| Retirement integrated amp for a “fiscal conservative” @ezstreams, thank you for the kind words. However, don't be distracted by equipment in regards to audio nirvana. I also have a mid-fi rig that I've put less than $1k into getting it off the ground this last year. I have it set up using all that I... | |
| Retirement integrated amp for a “fiscal conservative” You’re not going to have to replace tubes every couple of years. 8k probably won’t get you too much further than you are with the PL. The rest of your gear probably works great with the PL. They're not bad amps for the money matched with the righ... |