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| Bedini still in business? A new line of Bedini power amplifiers? This is great news. I can't wait to see what will be offered. Sign me up. My check book is in hand! | |
| Why DACs have no BNC Digital In The original Benchmark DAC1 has a BNC input. | |
| Benchmark DAC 1 as preamplifier?? Just remember: three digital sources only. Toslink, coaxial (BNC or RCA w/adaptor), and AES/EBU.No analog sources accepted. | |
| Worth Going to 'THE SHOW' IN NYC IN APRIL There's the hotel bar, of course, but I don't fancy $13 for a glass of wine or $9 for a pint. I'm in NYC at least two days per week but never in that area. Does anyone know of a local (reasonably priced) bar (like an Irish pub, say) nearby where w... | |
| Buying 300B tubes in the New York? I think there's a place in the Chinatown area (maybe East Broadway) frequented by fanatical Chinese (and other) audiophiles into SE tube equipment. A few years back I stumbled into this den of audiophilia and delighted in its very exotic equipment... | |
| Top 5 Hamburgers Molly's Shebeen (Irish pub & restaurant) in NYC has the best hambergers. Big, thick, juicy 12 oz. Zagat's rated! | |
| Top 5 Hamburgers Molly's Shebeen (Irish pub & restaurant) in NYC has the best hamburgers. Zagat's rated! | |
| Your jaw dropping cables Yeah, when I went from Monster M1 speakers cables to Homegrown Audio Silver Lace speaker cables. Holy cow! | |
| Worth Going to 'THE SHOW' IN NYC IN APRIL Marakanetz:No, I'm not audiokinessis.Really, Andy was approachable, friendly, and conversational. | |
| Worth Going to 'THE SHOW' IN NYC IN APRIL At the last Stereophile show I had a conversation with Andy Singer about his demo. He knew I wasn't a potential customer but was friendly and informative as could be. | |
| Minimus 7 There was an outfit that sold a mod kit for the Minimus 7 and 77. It comprised of sticky dampening pads for the interior walls, a high quality capacitor, and some glue or something you would brush onto the woofer. It made a real improvement to the... | |
| Female Jazz Singers...new person/new releases... Cyrille Aimee is getting a lot of airplay here in NYC thanks to Jonathan Schwartz. She is good, real good! Check her out!I saw Tierney Sutton two weeks ago and her performance reconfirms my opinion that she is the best jazz/caberet singer working ... | |
| P.S. Audio Quintet? Worthwhile? My quintet went out after a double brown-out/surge courtesy of Hurricane Irene. A quick call to PS Audio got me a replacement module in two days! PS Audio didn't even ask about warranty status (it wasn't). Now that's what I call "above and beyond"... | |
| How Long Ago Since You Cried Listening To Music? Allan Pettersson's Symphony No.7 can bring me to the point of tears. | |
| Audio Fidelity Gold CDs I can recommend the Audio Fidelity version of Randy Newman's "Twelve Songs". |