fsonicsmith
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| Grover Huffman Cables I bought Grover's cables before and liked them. 6-7 years ago and IIRC phono cables only. So reading this I just went to his site. I see no "Pharoah", only Empress. | |
| Devore 0/96 - Integrated AMP help Will do so charles1dad. You and prof are easily my favorite regulars on this board. You both write well and with a certain sense of decorum and maturity. | |
| Devore 0/96 - Integrated AMP help In a few weeks I should be able to tell you how an eight watt SE zero negative feedback Class A amp sounds with O/93's. I also use Auditorium 23 loudspeaker cable which is a match made in heaven for the Orangutans. The amp in question is https://a... | |
| Can the need for novelty and change be mitigated by rotation? @ mahgister You have beyond a doubt the most bizarre system I have ever seen. The copper pipe fittings with crystals are something I am acquainted with. Someone markets a more sophisticated rendition as a tweak and you decided to make your own. I... | |
| Can the need for novelty and change be mitigated by rotation? I have a dedicated listening room with a lot of excellent room treatment. I have three Symposium equipment racks. And my main choice of loudspeakers are quite "full of character", Devore O/93's. My amp, an ARC 150 SE plays well with the Devores de... | |
| 401 birch or slate? This thread has drifted from plinth choices to general modifications. I have replied to many of these types of threads in the past. See my profile. While slate plinths sure look nice and appeal to the brain's common sense notion that high mass mus... | |
| AUDIO RESEARCH VS VTL I own all ARC for amplification, a Ref 6 and Ref 150 SE. I have sent many an email to ARC that went unanswered. The few times they did respond, it was weeks later and terse. The sound is amazing and they have been rock reliable. That keeps me seat... | |
| Help with Shortlist of Speakers! (SF vs Devore vs Others?) There is no one set of speakers that does it all. Wilson and Magico owners don't accept this premise. They need to expand their minds and see the different paradigms. As a Devore O/93 owner (and a happy one), I still accept the strengths and weakn... | |
| AMR DPP-777 DAC tubes maybe not the SW1X which weighs in at about 6K,6K for a DAC II Special which is indeed quite special. 13K for a DAC III Balanced which is superior to the former but only by a fraction. More apples and oranges than higher on the pyramid of musical ... | |
| AMR DPP-777 DAC tubes I replaced the tubes in my DP-777 a year and a half ago simply due to the fact that the stock tubes had seen a lot of use. Also, the DP-777 (it is not "DPP") is weird in that on standby mode, the unit powers up when there is a power outage. Here i... | |
| LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING I humbly request that no one bother responding to this guy's companion thread he just started. The first rule at the zoo is don't feed the animals. | |
| LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING fsonicsmith, please return to listening to your 1990's NAD gear believing its high end. lol I have been a member here for over nine years as opposed to your less than two year participation here and unlike you, my system is posted. If you were ... | |
| LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING Not a VPI bashing party, bit it sadly has morphed into unipivot vs gimbal thread. Ugh. No, it is fundamentally a troll thread. As I stated in my first contribution to this thread, there is a known pattern to these kinds of threads. The OP star... | |
| LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING Also, I am extremely hard on Cartridges due to having a few beers and getting clumsy with the tonearm. Translation-I am extremely hard on fellow audiophiles due to having a few beers and getting clumsy with my manners. Fwiw, my beerbelly friend(em... | |
| LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING I feel very bad for Jonathan Carr for stooping so low as to respond to the bottomless trench in which the OP obviously inhabits. These things develop so predictably. First what appears to be a reasonable plea for help and then a premeditated troll... |