pinthrift
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| Am I broken? Am I stuck? Do I have to return my audiophile card now? Hi bigfatpaulie...you ask a fine question, thanks. I choose not to view other responses to provide my gut feeling as a seasoned music lover and not a gear person. It appears your Sabrina's are working really well in your room, which is vital to ... | |
| Best EXTERNAL DAC suggestions moose89... I also successfully run a Panamax with all but my powered sub. Having the luxury of 2 isolated dedicated lines in, I've experimented with using amp on seperate line etc, as some recommend, however, the line conditioner, with select po... | |
| Best EXTERNAL DAC suggestions ...afterthought...running a tricked-out Music Reference RM-10 MK II (full Marigo Tuning Dot treatment)...ALWAYS recommend tubes in the chain with a digitally sourced system. Pin | |
| Best EXTERNAL DAC suggestions Hey moose89...thanks for the topic. I'm PC sourced to a pro-gear digital preamp...cross-over internally to my active Rythmic L12 servo subwoofer and monitors. My best friend has a big rig with an $18K Lampizator. We share the same audio "fla... | |
| Salk Future TBD I had the distinct PLEASURE of using the only pair of "sealed"Salk Veracity monitors as my mains two-channel for several years. I further had occasion to sort out what turned out to be a non-issue with one of the tweeters, and Jim was an absolute... | |
| Subwoofer Hi jpwarren58... After extensive search for a smaller dedicated studio deep bass solution under 80Hz, I discovered a larger, single, Direct Servo as my solution, replacing the two sealed subs I had been using. My Rythmic L12 was $629 delivered a... | |
| What is the most challenging music to play on a stereo? Topic follow-up... Last Sunday, sat Row 3 Center --- at nearby Bowdoin College Concert Band concert...40+ musicians at full roar...band, not an orchestra...no drawn strings involved. I officially surrender to the futile concept of ever experienc... | |
| What is the most challenging music to play on a stereo? Thanks for the question, CDC. Several responses more address what flavors one prefers, not what most tests a system. I'm partial to the question because there are a tiny, few genres I don't enjoy. As a result, my system needs to do large, sma... | |
| Some famous reviewers have atrocious listening rooms! Thanks for the topic, audiodwebe. Home in the wilds of Maine for the last 40+ years, with an enduring passion to better good sound, the journals provided much sought after information. Music lovers are a generous lot. JGH, HP, Art, REG, JA, Her... | |
| Subwoofer Choice Hi bound4h...thanks for the topic. I've spent most of my 40+ hi fi years with larger monitors and no subs in several rooms. My Chapman T-4's dug into the 30hz region and I was always quite happy. In the last 23 years, in my dedicated studio, I'... | |
| What's the best EL84 amp? Hey again on this topic, directed to owners of the Music Reference RM-10 MKII amplifiers? Roger Modjeski chose to engrave into the top plate of the amplifier the actual value next to the 2 plastic screw positions "160mA Slow." In reading the thr... | |
| What's the best EL84 amp? ...oh, footnote. Those of you running the RM-10 to less efficient speakers...in my Pro DAC, I send below 80 cycles to a sub, lifting the power-draining deep bass duties from the amp. A lovely solution. Pin | |
| What's the best EL84 amp? Hi dhcod, thanks for the EL84 question. As a young man, I first came across the Music Reference electronics in a large, comprehensive publication from "The Tweak Shop" in the mid 1980's, a California retailer for Music Reference. Having experi... | |
| Under my tower speakers -- Isoacoustics Gaia, other options? Hey hilde45... In my long experience as an Anti-Resonance Cop (especially under the hood) masonry rarely works. If your floor carpet is thin enough, you might try to find some vintage golf cleat spikes and weigh down the speakers: 50_31067b_lg.... | |
| Is there anything better than live recordings? Hi jjbeason14 ... thanks for the topic. Based upon last Saturday's experience, I've discovered another option that, for me, beats the simple playback of a live recording. My Peers will remember the 1970's live television music variety show, "The... |