zaikesman
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| Riddle me this... Good observation (I guess you can tell that I haven't exactly been thinking of shopping for one of these!), at least as far as the 'big boys' go. Of course, there are still lower-powered SS amps available, but they mostly come from Britain and Eur... | |
| Record-playing Rituals? To be perfectly honest, let me admit something I have never owned up to in public before: In my rig, I have never been able to consistently identify any fluctuation in the sound I could hang my hat on when adjusting VTA or anti-skating. There, I s... | |
| Record-playing Rituals? How can you say such things about me Detlof, when I commonly play my records, after their initial cleaning (if - and this is truly shocking - if I even feel compelled to give them one!), forevermore without once again ever subjecting them to any w... | |
| Need help with Klipschorns/Electronics and mother. That is certainly possible - the only way to find out is to switch back and see if anything changes. | |
| Record-playing Rituals? Never came across this thread before, but now that I have, I am sure as I never have been that I am NOT truly an audiophile. Free at last, free at last, thanks to all of you, I'm free at last!(FLASH! Just as I finished typing the above, my girlfri... | |
| Need help with Klipschorns/Electronics and mother. Without getting into all kinds of further permutations of ways to 'improve' this system, my advice FWIW is to go with plan B and give back Mom what she wants. It's your safest, simplest, and ultimately cheapest course of action given the situation... | |
| TT Dust cover inter-change ??? Sean, I don't know about anything that exactly fulfills your request, but I do know there is a guy who advertises on the 'Gon from time to time who fabricates custom acrylic dustcovers that are intended to fit around the TT and rest on the shelf r... | |
| Marble or Granite shelfs in a hifi rack? Well, then there's always my approach: I invested about 1K in my Salamander Synergy Twin 40 solely for the reasons of convenience in having adjustable shelf heights, enough space for all my components, and the ease of system reconfiguring that com... | |
| Theta Jade or Basic II Interesting stuff about the Basic II. I do remember Martin Colloms' original Stereophile review of the Jade did mention the possibility of some advantages he ascribed to the older Basic II in bass and dynamics, but overall I think he preferred the... | |
| Hendrix blues Error correction: Sorry, I screwed up in my post above - the common 45 of "Hey Joe" is on the flip of "Foxey Lady" (there is no 45 of this tune shared with "TWCM"). My apologies if I confused anyone. | |
| Review: Pass Labs X-250 Amplifier Kudos for undertaking your project in such a thorough and logical fashion. I'm sure all your efforts pay off now. I have a feeling that in reality few audiophiles adhere to a similar systematic approach when going about the process of choosing, bu... | |
| Review: Audio Research LS-25 mkII Tube preamp Nothing to add, really, except to note that I take 'reviews' of gear auditioned in showrooms with a necessary grain or three of salt (please don't take it personally, it's still interesting info, I just don't consider it to meet real review guidel... | |
| Theta Jade or Basic II I run a Pearl with my DSPro Basic IIIa. The Jade is similar but more sophisticated. They both use the well regarded Pioneer Stable Platter mechanism (the little turntable platter that the disk rests on with the data side facing up), but doesn't yo... | |
| Hendrix blues I resonate with the title of your thread, in the figurative sense. I was too young to be aware of him yet when he died, but hearing all his stuff on the radio during the day due to the 60th anniversary of his birth has me missing him as if I knew ... | |
| Shhhhhh Don't tell my wife. Looking at B&W 802Ns Longho68, you are a funny, funny guy...I just hope you aren't married! :-) |