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My Sonic Lab Platinum v Gold Signature
@wrm57 - you and I remain doppelgängers in so many respects. I have never used the MSL though had a few Airtights back in the day. When I finally visited Albert in person-- long overdue- he had two 14 inch Kuzma 4 Pts set up on his tweaked out SP-... 
6DJ8 vs. 6922?
I rolled these in a Steelhead and preferred the sound of old Telefunkens to the Siemens b/c they were more 3d though the Siemens were probably more linear. It may depend on the circuit and the overall voicing of the system. At the time I was buyin... 
"But it sounds better at night...."
I addressed power at the meter. Made sure everything was optimal without buying into fancy audio conditioners or the like. I do have whole house surge but after making sure the main service panel had no issues, set up a subsystem, tied to the main... 
Turntable Isolation Journey
Duck, if the image is already on the web (in my case the above from a web site I control), you simply capture the image address and use the tool that looks like a panorama, open and paste in the image address. I don’t know if A-gon supports image... 
Turntable Isolation Journey
I certainly don’t advocate getting all spendy on a Minus K if you can solve a footfall problem less expensively. I couldn’t for a couple reasons- one, the structure of the house- it is an 1880s landmark that was painstakingly rebuilt from the orig... 
Advice on how to liquidate system
I’d hold off before you jump. Judging by your user name, you are in NY? SkyFi through Dave Wasserman (ex-Stereo Exchange) buys high end, but there are all kinds of things you can do to try and recover some of your hearing. I’m really big on integr... 
Why do almost all women today hate home audio?
@tylermunns--There is so much I'm interested in; audio preservation and digital standards, film preservation and ephemera; I just finished helping out somebody at UCLA on the history of music for early TV; the law stuff gives me certain advantages... 
Why do almost all women today hate home audio?
@tylermunns- I generally don't get into the substance of active cases here but I think the Led Zep case helped push back some of Blurred Lines. A friend's firm handled the Sheeran case.  I'm occasionally pulled in to cases as an expert on U.S. law... 
Why do almost all women today hate home audio?
This is a little offbeat, but I actually started dating my wife as a result of an audio connection. We had met in Brooklyn Heights decades ago, when both of us lived there. After a couple of different nights out, she visited my apartment, walked i... 
Turntable Isolation Journey
The Kuzma, like the Herzan, are active units and based on my discussions with Franc Kuzma and Mike Lavigne, respectively, neither product is designed to deal with footfalls, which the Minus K is capable of absorbing. Instead, those active units ma... 
Audio Research Owners Worried?
@daveyf agreed I reached out to Gon central control to ask them to do just that.   
Audio Research filing for bankruptcy?
One of the ARC execs just posted on What's Best- company is open, running, they hope to have a new owner quickly. We have a bunch of threads on this. I reached out to TPTB to see if these could be consolidated. Bill Hart  
Audio Research filing for bankruptcy?
Sad news. They set the benchmark in the States with the SP-3 preamp. I owned a fair amount of their gear back in the day, stopping at the SP-10mkii preamp and a succession of their amps. W Z Johnson was a force in the industry- hard to get the lin... 
How eclectic is your taste in music?
I tired of the usual audiophile warhorses a while ago. I have "best" pressings of many- I devoted time, attention and money to acquiring those before prices got completely nutty and clean playing copies were harder to find. Thanks to a tip from s... 
ML No532 Amp Repair
I'm a long timer here at the Gon and reached out to Outpost4 b/c he came down to pick up a bunch of stuff from Pyramid. I now live in Austin so we hung out together and know each other from the boards. He's not a regular poster at the Gon but did ...