yesiam_a_pirate
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| Tung-Sol kt170 tube started glowing brighter I'm pretty sure you are seeing an event called "Red Plating" which is the tube overheating. There are a few causes- and finding them can be a mystery. The tube could be shorting (doubtful given what you've described) The bias is certainly off. ... | |
| What news in 2023 struck you? The ARC implosion surprised me. They dominated the ten figure market for decades. McIntosh couldn't make them profitable, nor could an insider angel investor who also lost is arse. Now the company can't seem to put out anything new or exciting. Me... | |
| She loves me she loves me not! For me my Bryston Model Ts sound better with their cloths off. I put the bases and the grills in the OEM shipping boxes and stashed them in the basement. Additionally I really like seeing the woofers moving when the volume is cranked. It's fun t... | |
| Any other Pipe And Slippers Audiophiles out there? What a great post! I always wanted a real velvet smoking jacket. One of my greatest enjoyments is to mix up a lovely Boulevardier on the rocks (Woodford, VYA vermouth and a splash of Campari) sit by the fire and enjoy my rig. I do smoke a fine ... | |
| DAC as pre amp For me swapping in a quality Dac into my Audio Research pre and power amp rig was my first step to going pre-ampless. Next my friend talked me into selling him my ARC SP 15. Now I am DAC connected by XLRs to my ARC power amp and loving it. To me t... | |
| Music Server Help For me the DAC/Server thig is a matter of budgeting to Moors Law. My hypothesis is that Moors Lew applies to digital stereo too and as such products will both double in value and halve in price every 18 months, For my age/ears/budget I bought ... | |
| WHY IS THERE SO MUCH HATE FOR THE HIGH END GEAR ON AUDIO GEAR? It's the first deadly sin: Pride. "I'm better than you so how can you have anything better than I have?' Clearly you cannot, therefore do not. Greed: "I want what's mine- even if you think it's yours" Lying: to themselves and others about wha... | |
| I Cried Today God bless you for your kindness and tender heart toward your fellow man. | |
| New DAC with streamer I have a PS Audio DSD Mk1 and ditched the card for a separate PS Audi AirLens Streamer. Night and day difference. The card was a pain in the arse- dropping signal and needing to be rebooted all the time. Plus the sound sucked on almost all music.... | |
| My High End Audio Gear As A Long Term Investment!!! Audio gear is not a good investment financially. It depreciates. Rapidly in many cases. No matter how much I love a piece (I'm an ARC fanboy) the used ones go down in value each year- and why shouldn't they? Caps wear out. tubes fail, pots get wor... | |
| Have you found your "End-Game" speakers yet? I have. And it feels so good!!! Changing houses makes me change speakers. My end game speakers become unsatisfactory as the room they are in changes. I've given up believing that I can build the ultimate end game rig. I've embraced the reality that swaps and upgrades are part ... | |
| Audiophilia: Is it the pursuit of audio excellence or just a desire to tinker. It's both and something else too. It's a lot of fun to tinker, learn, design, and grow in the hobby. Add to that the love of music faithfully reproduced and !Viola! A payoff for your hard work. Most HiFi guys are aesthetics- lovers of beauty, s... | |
| Looking for intermediate-step Streamer: better than BS Node and not @ Bartok level pricing I bought the new PS Audio Air Lens Streamer to replace their Bridge II streamer and mated it to a PS Audio Direct Stream Mark 1 DAC and the improvement was fantastic. I'm very happy with the sound, detail, bass and easy operation. Airlens: $1600 ... | |
| LessLoss C-Marc Entropic Speaker Cable I think the HiFi world is running out of superlatives to describe the latest thing's transformational-therefore-you-must-buy-them items. | |
| Importance of the Preamp in a system I have experimented with using my DAC as the pre-out to the power amps and using a preamp. Of course louder volume is achieved with the preamp, but also a lot more "music" as the preamp added detail. At least that's what my system revealed. The wi... |