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| Is There Any Reason To Buy A Reel-To-Reel Machine Nowadays?? I have absolutely no need - not even .1%, for a reel to reel. But I remember back in the 70’s when I was starting my audio journey, no serious audio guy was without a reel to reel. It’s damned cool, albeit useless. A relative has a 50 plus yr old ... | |
| Is JRiver still the best software? I have JRiver and Audirvana- prefer the sound on Audirvana | |
| What's the deal with Ebay and Paypal these days? I was just bumped into managed payments by eBay. I had no choice, but remarkably, after I was in managed payments the proceeds of one of my sales wound up in PayPal. As long as I get paid in the end, I suppose it works but clearly, funds were avai... | |
| Linn Karousel bearing Karousel is a home run | |
| Can anyone recommend a printable label for vacuum tube boxes? A brother p touch is very versatile. Once you get one you’ll be exploring “what can I label next?” | |
| Bluetooh I own the audioengine B1. Given a higher bitstream (at least 256 kbps), it sounds pretty good. | |
| Mods which don't harm re-sale Richard Modaferri’s mods to McIntosh tuners certainly increase resale value | |
| If your were to assemble a vintage system ? Inna Said $1500 isn’t moneythat’s in part the point | |
| If you hopped into your time machine and brought back audio gear- what would it be? Way back when, I was at a store that was going out of business.They had two Marantz 10b tuners. They wanted $1200 for both. Should have grabbed them, or at least made an offer on buying one of them. Silly me- | |
| If you hopped into your time machine and brought back audio gear- what would it be? Yeah I guess me too | |
| Any Linn LP12 owners in So Cal get the Karousel bearing upgrade? I had a Kore installed in 2015 and the Karousel in 2020, so permit me a few words. The single biggest bang for the buck improvement I have ever heard on my 23 years old LP12 has been the Karousel. | |
| Did Nixon Erase My Tape? Your header grabbed my attention as my first thought is that many would not have a clue what the Nixon and erased tapes reference was. That I know means that I also lived through an era of amazing music- | |
| Does it annoy you when companies don't show the internals of electronics ? To answer your question, no, not at all | |
| Optimize my MacBook pro Yes, I have my M1. When I use my MacBook Pro for music playback I always run it on battery power/ never plugged in. I did try a USB isolator but for reasons unknown to me I could not get it to work so I returned it. I could not get any sound outpu... | |
| What did your system look like 30 years ago? How many of us still has any of the gear we had 30 years ago?I still have my zerostat, but that’s about it. I’ve owned my turntable 23 years now- so my oldest piece of gear is a Marantz tuner. That’s either late 60’s or early 70’s (is there a Mara... |