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| Bose buys McIntosh Wow. My McIntosh days have been over for a while but I've lately been dreaming about Sonus Faber. Hope for the best? Bose, really? Funny story: in 1982 I bought an MC225 from a stereo repair guy for $200. I sold it back to him a couple years late... | |
| Merason dac MK1 on audio mart Thanks for following up on this, @dseltz | |
| Merason dac MK1 on audio mart I hate to think that audio mart would be so irresponsible. I'm also curious to see how this ends... | |
| Current quality of Rune Sorry if this has been said but someone created a "Roon optimization guide" on head-fi. There are a number of helpful suggestions in the thread. @phishhhhh4, Vermont phan here. Maybe our paths will cross at the Garden on NYE! | |
| Merason dac MK1 on audio mart Grrr. OP, it sounds like you communicated with the seller and reviewed his feedback. I'm glad that PayPal is on the case. I think the real lesson is that no one should use PayPal F&F unless you know the seller. | |
| Friends hi-fi system not very good, what do you do or say? @testpilot +1 | |
| classical quartet watching/listening Thanks, all. Interesting stuff. Nice office, @elliottbnewcombjr! I'd never get any work done there... I'm sure that most audio recordings don't match existing video in terms of imaging. I was wondering if any audio and video recordings *are* synce... | |
| Cary SLP98L upgrades--yea or nay? A quick thank you to @decooney, @harpo75, and @dogearedaudio. I appreciate the wisdom. It helps me to think through things. I'm going to do the upgrade *and* tube rolling. Or vice versa.... | |
| Cary SLP98L upgrades--yea or nay? Thank you both for your thoughtful, helpful answers. I haven’t done tube rolling in years (ie decades) but I’m looking forward to having a go. @larryi , everything you say makes sense. Since there seems to be near-universal enthusiasm about the F... | |
| Cary SLP98L upgrades--yea or nay? Thanks, Russ. I've read a lot about the F1. I think it's close to what Cary offers but with different caps. I wonder if I could find a tech who could reproduce the F1 upgrade.... | |
| Cary SLP98L upgrades--yea or nay? "I like the sound overall and would be a bit cautious about a modification that might change its character drastically." ^^^ That's exactly the context for my post, and I appreciate your clear articulation of it. Dry, lean, and harsh ... would be... | |
| Thinking of Magnepan ... finally! This forum repeatedly manages to cling to two incompatible truths: 1) listening is subjective; trust your ears 2) my equipment is objectively better than your (respected/revered) equipment, which is objectively terrible These two positions ofte... | |
| Phil Lesh Fare thee well, Phil. Like many, saw numerous shows in the 70s-90s. One night about ten rows back in the Phil Zone at the (old) Boston Garden, I thought those bass bombs would collapse my insides and turn me to mush. As @wharfy (good GD name) put ... | |
| Thinking of Magnepan ... finally! @yyzsantabarbara, for what it's worth, I went from moderately expensive Ohno speaker cables (no idea what gauge but light and thin) to some inexpensive 10 AWG Blue Jeans cables--and the improvement in sound was considerable. The Ohnos sounded grea... | |
| a naive question about HT speakers +1 to all of you. Thank you! I really know nothing about home theater and this is very helpful. I've heard excellent things about the SVS Prime speaker. "Timbre matching" seems as controversial on the internet as high-end speaker cable! Erik,... |