lou_setriodes
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| Since my sabbatical What is the cost to refurbish the CAL Icon? For those monies, what could you get? After the refurbish, will it have a new laser and last for a long time? I had a CAL DX2 a few years ago that I really liked and also have an Oppo DV970. It's c... | |
| Stuff you bought on Audiogon, but never have seen another? I too like searching the ads to keep abreast of the used market and that very rare once in a lifetime piece.A few years ago I bought a very rare Ditton 240 integrated amp made by Celestion with an upgraded Shunyata power cord. Paisley Research AE... | |
| Affordable integrated pure class A? A really great sounding inexpensive integrated is a Tandberg TIA3012. It’ll set you back $300-350 and is heavily biased into class A as it runs very warm to the touch. I had one for a few years and loved it. Kept it on all the time with about 4... | |
| Looking to get into tubes on the cheap I just picked up a GemTune GS-01 tube integrated that runs EL34’s in SE Ultralinear mode for 8 wpc. It came with an upgraded Alps Blue Velvet volume pot and TungSol 6SL7’s and an SED winged C 5U4 rectifier tube as well. With my speakers, I think ... | |
| Movies with... In The Conversation, Gene Hackman had a mono tube amp with a horn mono speaker, was a long time ago since I saw it.Just saw Copland the other night and it looked like a Thorens TD125 that Stallone was playing an album on | |
| best preamps Go get a Stereophile magazine in April or October, their Recommended Components issues, and you can see what Stereophile feels that are the best preamps now. This list doesn’t take into account older preamps, only current offerings. The newest is ... | |
| Treated my interconnects with Deoxit D5 today I bought Tweek years ago, it evaporated in like a year or two, even though it was sealed tightly | |
| Rules for Trading & Best Trading Experience No one gets hurt with my trade rules and it keeps the hobby fun as it should be.The amp for the speakers trade, we both had known each other for years although never met, kind of audio pen pals. I shipped the amp to IN, he shipped the speakers to... | |
| Have you ever downgraded deliberately? First off, what amp was on those Apogees? Something very serious like a Krell, Threshold or Levinson? The store I worked at back in the day sold Apogees running with Krells, it was the only thing that would run them. They need lots of current, ... | |
| Best speakers for $300/pr The problem is you get used to a certain sound and even if you hear something superior, you don't always realize it when you hear it. Having been in this hobby for 30 years, I believe we all have an aural memory such as I've described above. Tha... | |
| Recommend Affordable Integrated Amps (Solid State or Tube) +1 for Wolf Garcia.A Tube integrated + sep phono and DAC would be my choice as well. Besides Jolida, there are many other good ones coming out of China like Antique Sound Labs and Audio Space that are well below your budget and I think you'd be p... | |
| A trend I've noticed in ads. ...And here's the thing about brand new in a sealed box.....Always check the bottom of the box!!! I sold audio gear at the retail level almost 30 years ago, and whenever we opened up a box for floor display, we always opened the box from the bott... | |
| Recommend Affordable Integrated Amps (Solid State or Tube) Sounds like you are maybe looking for 1 box to fill your needs. If not, I'd look to get something with tubes with a separate phono stage and DAC which I believe would be much superior to any SS integrated listed above. Just my opinion. BTW, I a... | |
| Best speakers for $300/pr $300 can go a very long way on the used market. It depends on his listening preferences (rock, classical, jazz), room size, how powerful the Marantz is and if he wants monitors or floor standing speakers. Too many variations to start mentioning ... | |
| any experience with Esoteric SACD/CD players reliability? I currently have a wonderful sounding SACD player on USAM and Philadelphia CL. Its a Sony DVP-S9000 ES SACD player and originally sold for $1500. Built like a tand and sounds wonderful! |