meiatflask
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| 2025 Audio System Wish List Time! This year, we should complete a move into a place where I can have a larger dedicated listening room. This will allow me to purchase larger speaker (perhaps Joseph Audio Perspectives) and enjoy the task of optimizing the room acoustics. I curre... | |
| Any regrets in selling gear? Original 15 ohm Rogers LS 3/5a. Purchased for $495 in 1977. Sold for around $2k in 1995 to help start a business. Worked out well with th business, but still miss the speakers. Around the same time, sold a Marantz 8b for $225 as I headed off t... | |
| An audio component you just can't let go Advent 300 receiver, with the preamp designed by Tom Hohlman. Circa 1976. Used as a preamp only for decades. | |
| Physically Comfortable Headphones And checkout head-fi.org for more thoughts, comments, reviews | |
| Physically Comfortable Headphones So I spend two days at Axpona this spring pretty much confined to the headphone room. Having not owned headphones for several decades, the wearability without physical fatigue was my concern, along with sound quality of course. I ended up purcha... | |
| Primaluna tube rolling 12AU7 Notes I don’t have a PL preamp, only their power amp, the HP dialogue premium, which was pre EVO series. The HP has six 12AU7s plus eight EL34s. Keeping on topic of the 12AU7s, I have discussed rolling options with Kevin at Upscale, and thus purchased ... | |
| 1 song you never get sick of? In case any of you didn’t understand my previous post, it’s The sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel. | |
| 1 song you never get sick of? Hello darkness my old friend…… I must have a dozen versions, covers, etc. The intro still give me goosebumps after 50 years | |
| Looking for cable recommendations for sennheiser HD800s @larsman thanks, but I have already purchased the lavricables. | |
| Looking for cable recommendations for sennheiser HD800s @soix - yep, always patient with my final conclusion, but I did pay lavricable for the 100 hour burn in service (as it was not much money) so I feel comfortable that we are mostly there. | |
| Looking for cable recommendations for sennheiser HD800s @soix 1- timing might have more to do with our wives, rather than who’s a better man😀……. 2- listening observations. Compared to the baseline OEM senn cables, it feels like a veil has been lifted. The lavicables have more air around the mids a... | |
| Looking for cable recommendations for sennheiser HD800s Yes, I got them. They arrived a day before my daughter and grandkids, so I have not really had a chance to seriously listen. The family leaves on Saturday, so I’ll have plenty of time next week and I’ll post my thought then. | |
| Surge protector @erik_squires Do “high end” power conditioners from Shunyata, PS Audio, Audioquest, etc, provide surge protection equal to the Furman? Or is their surge protection an afterthought compared to their power conditioner function? I have an Shunyata... | |
| Looking for cable recommendations for sennheiser HD800s @soix - I just ordered the grand from from lavricable. With the 150 hour burn in, I expect about 2-3 weeks before they arrive. I’ll let you know how they sound. Thanks for your thoughts. | |
| Looking for cable recommendations for sennheiser HD800s @soix - any opinion on the ultimates compared to the master or grand? The master is still well below my budget and the grands are on the high side but still doable. The grands do look significantly “thicker” which may have some practical limitat... |