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| How To Keep Cat Off Stereo Equipment? Slightly wrinkled aluminum foil sheets on top of my speakers and covering the McIntosh tube amp once it cools down with a towel. Limited to bookshelf stand mounted speakers. Floorstanders are out of the question since they have all their claws. I... | |
| Tune of the Day Lana Del Rey- A&W | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Morphine-Cure for Pain | |
| Denafrips Pontus II FPGA firmware upgrade 2023 I like my Pontus II enough as is that I am considering holding off on the update. My luck I would “brick” the unit and have to send it in. | |
| Ultimate test of bass - Lana del Rey's A&W Took some balls for her to step out like that. From mellow melodic to intense out of nowhere. It’s like a new style that I think works really well. | |
| what are your top "audio bargins" in your system history? Job 225 amp $1,300 in 2017 HH Scott LK-72 $500 in 2019 McIntosh MC240 $1,000 + $1,000 for total refurb including tubes in 2022 Buchardt S300 “C” stock new $850 in 2018. Pristine condition not sure where the “C” stock comes from! | |
| Preamp with two volume controls? Superphon Revelation has two and the unit I have still does a great job. | |
| If there was only ONE album/cd/release you can listen to, over and over............. Blues for Allah - Grateful Dead honorable mention: Waiting for Columbus - Little Feat | |
| Breaking in new speakers, what is your favorite music for this? Bach Toccata en fugue on a loop | |
| Then there were 2 ARC is point to point vs Rogue circuit board? I could be wrong but I have owned a Cronus Magnum II and a VT-60. Sure miss the VT-60 but the Cronus not so much. | |
| Biggest "bang for the buck" audio gear you have owned(in your history)? Superphon Revelation II Preamp Job 225 amp (still in use)ART DiO dac (modified) collecting dust in basement. | |
| Iowa Audiophiles Des Moines Ia here. West side. | |
| Reasonably sensitive speakers for tube amps, max $2k/pair, new or used My Buchardt S300’s sound excellent matched with my HH Scott LK-72 integrated amp. | |
| A somewhat but not entirely rhetorical question: Just had my HH Scott LK-72 gone thru by a local guy and it is not going anywhere. | |
| Favorite Guitar Solo Jerry Garcia- Cats Down Under the Stars from How Sweet It Is cd. |