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| Is There Just One Single Album That Does It For You, Completely? Just One. For me it is Joni Mitchell's Shadows and Light with her all star backup group, The Persuasions as backup vocals, Pat Metheny and other TOP notch players.. One of my most precious Vinyl listening pleasures. | |
| Still looking for a new Moving Coil Cartridge My Hana SH has blown me away more than once on many of my older rock albums. I have maybe 100 hrs on it now and I think it took about 10-20 albums to come into its fullest potential. Tonearm and set up are a big factor. I used a high end stylu... | |
| Have you found your "End-Game" speakers yet? I have. And it feels so good!!! Interesting comments, of course I have no idea when my game will end. That a said, I love numerous speakers around the house, JBL, Mirage and others with my current favorite main entertainers being Sonus Faber Olympica II's with an ancient M &a... | |
| A'gon Classified or Auction - Which do you prefer? I have had very good response of my classified sales on AG... I don't have the patience for auctions unless I'm just curios about what something listed at a low beginning price ends up selling for. It is a form of entertainment. Auctions seem to... | |
| My hearing deficits are becoming clear... This info is relevant for me and much appreciated. Thanks to all of you responding here. There are few potential alternates in the realms of homeopathy and essential oil therapies however in my experience (in practice over 30 years) each case i... | |
| Hi-end audio is a big zero "Still great" family owned group is Listen Up A/v of Colorado. Listen Up has nice demo rooms and a better educated and experienced staff than big box stores They pride themselves on customer satisfaction | |
| Warm, rich, smooth, 3d tube integrated amp, budget $6000 I have owned several flavors Audio Research Pre and power amps and decided during covid to find something with a quality headphone output... Along with my wife's wishes that I use headphones so she can go about her own interest without listening t... | |
| The Absurdity of it All To quote Japanese wisdom:If dancing makes us foolish, does watching make us wise? Since we are all both wise and foolish... What a pity not to dance!Love the hobby! Love the music!It's a dance between the rational and irrational... to give me a s... | |
| Best place to get orientation in buying equipment The Music Room here in Colorado if you're looking for used gear... and if you're looking in Colorado, we have number of good dealers here. ListenUp is great as is Crescendo fine audio.Remember to enjoy the music! | |
| Why is there no love for Prima Luna? Anyone here compared the Prima Luna to Cary? I understand that Cary is made in the USA and appears well made... I am auditioning a PL EVO 400 at the moment and it sounds impressive in some ways, however, it lacks the detail that my ARC separates... | |
| BlueSound Stinks(!), anyone? I have a Vault 2 and initially I had some very frustrating problems!I did get Blue Sound on the phone at one point (limited availability) and there were several issues... the main one, if I am recalling correctly, was that the router supplied by X... | |
| Audio Research CD9 tube rolling ? Herbies dampers took quite a while to be shipped but after they arrived I installed them and could hear an added level of clarity in the midrange without adding any overall listening fatigue, actually I sense a reduction in fatigue... as well as ... | |
| What is up with Audio Research during the pandemic? Have to give my kudos to the Tube Store... Got shipped nearly immediately and arrived in about 5 days from Canada to Colorado.Sound quality is improved in every parameter that I can perceive in my ARC RefCD9... I went with all 6 of their middle of... | |
| Audio Research CD9 tube rolling ? After approximately 20 hours of burn in and listening I can say that this is the most beneficial improvement to the sound of my system in quite a while... I have played nearly every style of music on hand and there is nothing that I have thrown at... | |
| Audio Research CD9 tube rolling ? I agree, I thought it was excessive $$ and maybe I have my info wrong, however, after doing some reading of other posts regarding preamp tubes here, I decided to go to the TUBE STORE in Canada and see what they had to offer... I found a modest upg... |