vonhakemarine
Responses from vonhakemarine
| What's your profession? Age? 52; Chief Engineering Officer U.S. Merchant Marine. I operate & repair the engine rooms of steam and diesel ships: Tankers / Freighters / Cruise / Container. As much as I've tried to take extra extra care of my hearing, I suffered a great deal... | |
| To cryo or not to cryo OK, so let's say to cryo, now should the item be broken in for maximum effect beforehand? | |
| Recommendations for solid core speaker wiring? Sure do appreciate the info. On these Anti-cables, do they have to be separated somehow on their respective runs? I understand some people twist them for various reasons. | |
| What's the oldest piece of gear in your system? I have a piece of marble that my sub amp sits on. It's probably 700 million yrs old or more. | |
| Any audiophile who is on blood pressure medication My doctor put me on all sorts of B.P. meds and in the end, I bit the bullet and threw down the co-pay for Procardia XL. Fortunately, there were extentuating circumstances that I got under control and now successfully off the medication for 1+ yr. ... | |
| Which Headphone Amp in the $500 - $800 range Second the motion for hanging in there for the SinglePower. I'm using the MPX3 and ordered it with dual RCA output jacks from Mikael (used demo). I use it as my main stereo preamp and bi-amp with it when not using my 650's.Many adapter sockets ava... | |
| What has been your most satisfying component? A marantz 8B with m-o valve kt77's and rca clear tops in the driver stages. 16+ years now. I go to sea for a living, that's how my tubes last so long. Looking back, I paid $65 ea. for those outputs - wow, those were the days. | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? Living on an island I'm not sure how applicable the term "typical" is but, Daily driver: puff '73 914-4 (26 mpg), weekender: puff mod'd '70 914-6 (3.2L 12 mpg), jacked up '99 Ranger p/u for dump runs and utility use. | |
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