whart
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| When are people going to wake up and realize listening is a skill? @tomic601 - much of what I learned was through a shared experience. It is good to have a guide, or soul-mate with whom you can share and learn. The real beauty of this hobby/pursuit is to advance one's understanding and share that with others. The... | |
| When are people going to wake up and realize listening is a skill? @tomic601 - my bet is, you weren't teaching budding engineers how to listen in a technical, engineering sense so much as to ask the question whether X recording v Y recording sounds more like a real trumpet, no?As to "vocabulary" JGH did us a serv... | |
| When are people going to wake up and realize listening is a skill? I’m going to disagree, not on cars, but on audio. ( I had track time with Hurley Haywood in a CGT when Porsche couldn’t get rid of them; fun, and have lots of car stories but that’s not the point).I want somebody who is not a hi-fi listener to fin... | |
| Are Lamm preamps hard on tubes? Brent is pretty clear on his website about what "NOS" means and doesn't mean. (There is a tab on his page called "NOS Tube Specifications" that is worth reading). Brent is a good guy and pleasant to deal with. | |
| Are Lamm preamps hard on tubes? Andy cracks me up. He's good, very old school. Love his invoices which are stamped (who uses rubber stamps anymore?) and then initialed by him-- I think he's there all by his lonesome. I'm going to try to visit him once this Covid thing finally su... | |
| Are Lamm preamps hard on tubes? @jasonbourne52--some of the older Russian tubes like the DR Reflector 6h30 are now quite scarce, and often late production which is not, as I understand it, comparable to the earlier tubes (circa the '70s) that I use. They are now quite pricey.@in... | |
| Are Lamm preamps hard on tubes? My experience, both with Lamm and NOS tubes is that the latter are often "pulls"- you don’t know how much mileage is on them even if they test well at the time of purchase. In my experience, it is getting harder and harder to find truly never used... | |
| The first system you had that was "high end/audiophile", by you standards +1 @tomic601 !:)You gotta be a little crazy to enjoy this as much as all of us do. | |
| The first system you had that was "high end/audiophile", by you standards @daledee1- Back in the '70s, we were all pretty much in the same boat as far as wire was concerned. You could find bigger gauge for speaker wire, and perhaps put together some home made interconnects, but it was Fulton, followed by the mass market... | |
| The first system you had that was "high end/audiophile", by you standards @mijostyn- prices of Marantz 7 tube preamps are through the roof- I’d love to have one that was clean. Do you now regret selling it?(I thought the "C" denoted "with cabinet," which was extra $, so I distinguish the 7 from its later transistorized ... | |
| The first system you had that was "high end/audiophile", by you standards @tomic601 - yep, there was that ARC v. C-J what sound are you after. I didn't keep up with C-J; met Bill Thalmann years later as an independent. The ARC stuff changed several times- they had that "analog module" or whatever it was called (one of t... | |
| Liquid stylus cleaner without solvent @lewm- I think the concern in general terms (I can’t speak to chemistry as such) was that solvents, including alcohol, could dissolve the glue that binds the diamond to the cantilever. Ortofon in particular was a brand that warned about this at on... | |
| The first system you had that was "high end/audiophile", by you standards @mijostyn:The Marantz tube preamp has withstood the test of time. I gather than the ARC SP3-a-1 (updated to some other nomenclature) is also still a contender, though I found both the SP3 and the later sp10-mk ii, though glorious in some respects,... | |
| The first system you had that was "high end/audiophile", by you standards @tomic601 - and I'll bet that system can sound fabulous. I was supposed to hear a pair of Concert Grands or whatever the big daddy Bozak was (owned now by the son) but never happened. I'm using an MX110z in the vintage system, as you may know. Lot... | |
| The first system you had that was "high end/audiophile", by you standards In 1973, I had stacked Advents driven by the original Phase Linear 700 (no jokes please, I was 18 years old), a Quintessence preamp (rare bird, though Bill Leebens wrote about it somewhat recently) and a Technics SP-10 with custom plinth, a couple... |