dopogue
Responses from dopogue
| Whats playing on your system today? A whole bunch of stuff by Andre Previn. Born a month before me, he died yesterday. | |
| Agon is now a retail outlet. I've had zero problems with Audiogon sellers, enjoy the forums too. | |
| Duelund RCA interconnects...opinions I have a borrowed pair of unbalanced (RCA) 16g ICs and bought another pair of balanced 20g Duelunds Not bad, and cheap (my pairs at least) but not world-beaters. They're certainly worth a try. The KLEI connectors would probably make a positive d... | |
| Linear tracking turntables, whatever happened? Back in my linear-tracking days I would have initially believed the people who said it's a problem-free solution to record playing issues. My ET-2 worked perfectly and I loved it.Then I sold table and arm when a "good deal" presented itself in th... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD One point that hasn't been mentioned (or I can't find it) is the sound quality you can expect from the jMW arm. For years i had a JMW 10.5i arm and several extra armtubes and was amazed when an audiobuddy of mine with the same arm claimed that hi... | |
| Kudos to Dan Wright of Modwright My experience mirrors everyone else's. When my ModWright/Oppo 105 suffered a problem that was clearly an Oppo issue, ModWright handled it anyway, to my complete satisfaction. Thanks to Dan and Kristen Rose Boyd of ModWright for superlative servic... | |
| Skeptic or just plain hard headed Yeah, the changes can be negative, for a while. Cables can be overcooked (left on the cooker too long) and sound bad. I've done it. You can easily tell by listening, but all you need to do is wait it out. Doesn't take more than a day.. Long t... | |
| Replace CJ with new equipment I replaced a CJ Premier 17LS2 linestage to an Aesthetix Calypso (now upgraded to Signature status), a CJ phonostage to an Aesthetix Rhea, and a pair of CJ Premier 12 monoblocks to SET monoblocks (845 outputs, designed and built by a friend). No r... | |
| Skeptic or just plain hard headed + 2.5 on the Cable Cooker.Serious cooking is mandatory for phono cables, especially those with DIN connectors (not your problem, luckily), because the signal is so minuscule that a phonocable NEVER gets fully burned in if used solely from cart to ... | |
| Is it time to just quit? I've loved reading your stuff on AA. Keep the faith :-)As to burning out or whatever, as I approach 90 (next May), I keep buying stuff like there's no tomorrow. In my case, hat's not just a turn of phrase. | |
| What separate tube phono stage do you use ? After a succession of NYAL and Conrad-Johnson phonostages, I moved to an Aesthetix Rhea about 6 years ago and have no plans to "upgrade." With 3 pairs of inputs, as well as load and gain flexibility via the remote, the only thing is doesn't have ... | |
| Phono cable advice. In all the responses above I haven't seen anything about cable cooking, which IMHO makes more difference than just about anything else. Phonocables carry such tiny signals relative to other ICs that they never get broken in by playing alone. My ... | |
| Can you live with your current speaker until you die? Absolutely. Gallo Nucleus Ultimates from ~1996.'Course I'm already 89 so ... | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? Second the Audiodharma Cable Cooker. Paid for itself in a hurry, especially with ICs from tonearms to linestage (I have two TTs), which carry such minuscule signals that in the normal course of playing they never get burned in. No I wouldn't hav... | |
| A certain online retailer asked me for a review of Pangea power cords.. Comments about high end companies providing power cords with their products remind me that more and more companies don't do this any more, specifically recommending the use of after-market cords. And even the ones who still do supply cords often ... |