ghdprentice
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| Magico Pods vs Townshend Seismic Platforms @bigtwin Great question. I do not understand why a speaker costing many tens of thousands sounds so much better with Townshend Podiums, they just do for the vast majority of people. It is because of the vibration isolation and reduction. But tha... | |
| Looking for input on an amplifier switch @goldenways Sorry... how about largely artificial. Pass amps are great. I was really happy with them for forty years. | |
| Vietnam era stereo reference I just finished reading: The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Ward and Burns. I was in college when the draft ended. What a cluster f*. Respect to the 58,000 that died, the over half million Americans that served and the million Vietnamese th... | |
| Looking for input on an amplifier switch I had Pass designed amps for nearly forty years. Threshold s/500 then Pass X350 with and Audio Research Reference preamp. Sonus Faber Olympica 3... I now have Sonus Faber Amati Traditional. I had been hesitant to do a tube amp because of the repu... | |
| Phono pre amp Rega phono stages are highly regarded in the budget category. | |
| Looking for Some Music Server Advice The Aurender N200 for instance can be both server and streamer. You can pop in up to two 8TB solid state memory chips. Most importantly is the sound quality. Aurender makes primarily streamers and there flagship is typically the most ubiquitous at... | |
| Looking for Some Music Server Advice Aurender. 👍 | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries I am so engulfed in new and amazing music it is hard to listen to relisten to anything. I just add to my library and go on...then find more. I loved Jazz, world, classical, rock, and electronic before streaming. So, often looking at new release... | |
| Was anyone else caught out by this? @tony1954 Good one. | |
| Old SS amps They are excellent to use as a trade-in. If a classic, sometimes you can get back nearly as much as you paid for it. I had a Pass X350 which I got all but $500 back after nearly 20 years. What a great investment. I got a significant trade-in... | |
| Your first concert was to see who and when? Jan and Dean 1964, Chicago, I was 12. | |
| Threshold S/300 STASIS problem with on off swicht @unsound You are right... that is what it felt like. It was sloppy, then flipped very solidly. I never thought of that. | |
| CJ Premier 11 amp versus PrimaLuna EV 300 I am a big fan of Conrad Johnson and have heard it a lot and many of my friends own it. I own Prima Luna. In general it is not in the same league... although the CJ amp you are using is very old. Personally, and I like musical equipment would be... | |
| What do folks do with old SMPSs? Wall warts? I toss them. | |
| Was anyone else caught out by this? Sure does look like a tone arm. |