wharfy
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| Best and Worst customer service? @shtinkydog -Agree! It's pretty funny. I hate be ghosted. LOL. And it's too bad because the CD Box RS2T sounds awesome. I know, because I was crazy enough to purchase two of them. Thank G-d for return policies. Other users/owners report no proble... | |
| Best and Worst customer service? Best in my experience- Audio Research for technical Q/A and repairs, Upscale Audio for customer support and expertise, John Rutan at Audio Connection for customer support, expertise and repair issues for equipment they did not sell me. Worst eve... | |
| Need a tube power amp to go with Sonic Frontiers SFL-1 Signature hybrid pre-amp Sonic Frontiers Power One. Chris Johnson at Parts Connexion can help you out. He was the founder of Sonic Frontiers, and Parts Connexion is in Hamilton, Ontario. | |
| Cardas or Audioquest for this System Third vote for Audioquest. They have terrific synergy with your Pass amp/preamp combo. | |
| Shanling ET3 or Project CD RS2-T CD transport comparison @qbitstate -I will echo/agree @robshaw . The Pro-Ject is an awesome transport, IF you don't have problems with it. Rob went one step further than I did, by getting a third one. After my second RS2 had playback issues, I sent it back and went in an... | |
| Help me mod my tube amp @bryoncunningham -Congrats on the upgrades! Looks like you have breathed new life into an already good sounding amp. | |
| Old SS amps Still using a 30 year old Onkyo TX-8011 with Audio Physic Spark floor standers. While not the last word in resolution, the pair are musical. I purchased them together, in the last trimester before my son’s birth, when I was told by other dad’s to... | |
| MacArthur Park @hilde45 Nice thread starter-I'm 68, so the Richard Harris version is the one I'm most familiar with. "MacArthur Park is melting in the dark All the sweet, green icing flowing down Someone left my cake out in the rain (whoo!) I don't think that ... | |
| glowing red output tube, but don't think it's red-plating @xenolith -Great to see you have your ride or die system. | |
| glowing red output tube, but don't think it's red-plating @xenolith - Interesting story about the resistors and biasing. Oh the stuff we do, and put up with, in pursuit of the perfect sound. | |
| glowing red output tube, but don't think it's red-plating @xenolith - Following you post with some interest because you said you had other tube failures. Were they each KT77s? FWIW, I was using Genalex KT77s in a Cayin 50T integrated each of the 77s blew. Kevin @ Upscale said that while they sound great... | |
| Sly Stone @goofyfoot Agree! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_j07QOX42Q Questlove's documentary on Sly Stone is highly recommended. Using archival clips, the film charts Sly Stone's rise from a Bay Area DJ to wild years with his band, the Family Stone. ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @tyray - Very nice finds, thanks! Look how much fun they are having. Hale Smith, with the cigar in his mouth....Love the groove on the live African Cookbook @ Montreux. | |
| Jazz for aficionados @tyray - You're welcome! There is so much great jazz out there. This thread, started in 2013, has opened my ears and mind. I'm grateful to all the posters/contributors. | |
| Jazz for aficionados @mahgister- "I read a decade ago a story of a black musician who decided to go back to Africa to study music there... He encountered a master and discussing with him, the master said listening samplings of western music and jazz, this "does not... |