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| how can I insure a shipment for more than $10,000 If you have your policies with high net worth type insurers, e.g. Chubb, Pure, they can write riders that will cover your while gear is in transit. I did this when I moved from NY to Texas because the mover’s insurance is based on gross weight of ... | |
| Clearaudio Ovation vs Kuzma Stabi R No complaints whatsoever. Very solid engineering, great support, they are never trying to "sell" you-- just trying to keep you running. The XL is profoundly different from the Reference- much deeper bass, there is a spooky quiet to the sound but s... | |
| Clearaudio Ovation vs Kuzma Stabi R This is one of the big obstacles in truly evaluating good gear- you have almost no way of comparing tables or arms at a dealer, even assuming one handles both lines, since you need to eliminate all the variables. I have had several pieces from Kuz... | |
| Disagreements and Conflicts between Audiophiles have we lost our brotherhood and maturity? Spencer and I are both in Texas, and both ex-East Coasters. | |
| Disagreements and Conflicts between Audiophiles have we lost our brotherhood and maturity? There he is. Yep, agreed, @sbank. Getting together is really what it is all about and it goes beyond music or gear. | |
| Durable record vacuum cleaner recommendation? Good luck with the surgery @billstevenson. I've had a few of them. The very idea is almost worse than the actual procedure. I flip mats on the Monks if I want to wash/rinse on it, pop it into the ultrasonic and dry with the Monks, just to get t... | |
| Disagreements and Conflicts between Audiophiles have we lost our brotherhood and maturity? Thanks, @tomic601. Is it really April 1? That was such a nice afternoon sharing music and food with you and Spencer. Is he on this board? | |
| Durable record vacuum cleaner recommendation? Below is a photo of one of the cleaning stations at the Packard Campus in Culpeper, which is the intake facility for the Library of Congress. The photo was taken in late 2014. (The facility is not open to the public) I have been using a big Monks... | |
| Koetsu cartridges. They must be something special. One observation for which I don't have an answer- the Jade sounds different than the Tiger Eye on the same system. From what I gather the innards of both cartridges are the same. The difference in the hardness of the stone is recognized, generally... | |
| Do sound characteristics matter when moving from midfi to hifi? It is very hard to describe in words aural phenomenon, which is one reason why reviewers are constantly seeking better (and often more hyperbolic) adjectives. "Mid-Fi" and "high end" are gross labels that don’t tell us much: in the era of late 60s... | |
| Koetsu cartridges. They must be something special. @Lewm wrote: " "It seems that quite a number of Audiogoners have Koetsu, or a few of them." That sentence has its own escape clause." I read Inna's statement to mean that Koetsu are popular among participants and some have several of them. I ow... | |
| Mike's Barn. I know Mike through several phone conversations over the years. He’s a nice man, very generous with his time. My take-away is that even if you have a blue-sky project with virtually unlimited resources, it takes living with a system in a room to e... | |
| Disagreements and Conflicts between Audiophiles have we lost our brotherhood and maturity? I think a number of factors are in play. In ye olden times, pre-Internet, hi-fi bugs got together in person. There were far more "brick and mortar" stores where you would encounter like-minded people, as well as thriving audio clubs. (I was fortun... | |
| Need to learn about Audio Research Apropos @richardbrand ’s post upthread, I got to meet Peter Walker at McCormick Place in Chicago during the 1976 CES. I had a pair of Quads which I bought in 1974 and they are still in use today! (Sympathetically restored by Kent McCollum in 2017)... | |
| Need to learn about Audio Research It’s nice to read about folks who owned the gear (from) back in the early days. I guess I’m getting up there- audio history is fascinating to me, and there is so much cool, offbeat equipment that is lost to time. I’m glad ARC is still around. Spe... |