albertporter
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| Are parts still available for vintage Klipsch? At $130.00, your making a mistake to pass them up. A pair of these at Ebay or Audiogon would fetch $750.00 or more. In fact, you could afford to spend money on making them pretty and still have a bargain. As for repairs, the tweeters are (I think)... | |
| Best digital cable to audition? Here are two excellent cables at opposite ends of the spectrum. I own both.Blue Jeans Digital cable $13.50Blue JeansPurist Audio Digital Dominus $1520.00Purist | |
| DirecTV into DAC into preamp...... I think you would be covered for every need if you purchased DirecTV's new HD box. I bought mine about two months ago and It has outputs jacks for component video, composite video, analog out, digital coax out (RCA), digital optical out (Toslink),... | |
| TriPlanar Tips When I owned my TriPlanar I learned tip #7 by trial and error and never had problems outlined in tip #2. All this is great information, stuff learned only through the school of hard knocks. Thanks Doug. | |
| Who's got the best user name? This has been revived by the kind people at Audiogon. Thanks for asking about it Slipknot1 and to Nrchy for starting the thread. | |
| Can you play Doves Some Cities on emmLabs CDSD ? Tom_y, my piracy post is for amusement of course, no one would not want to be able to play CD's. If I had an ultimate machine like the Emmlabs and could not spin my favorite music, I too would be mad.The only solution I can think of is buying copi... | |
| New speakers and excessive midrange In my experience all new pieces have a break in period. The CD should be less drastic than the speakers but I cannot know for certain as I have not owned that player.My guess is your speakers will require at least 300 hours. Again, the manufacture... | |
| Can you play Doves Some Cities on emmLabs CDSD ? Here in a previous post of mine, I go into detail about a new revolutionary form of copy protection.Anti-Piracy | |
| New speakers and excessive midrange Joey, how many hours are on them now? Did Louis speculate about length of break in?I went though this with my Dali Megalines, they took FOREVER. This week they are moving into "magic" territory and I don't even have the tube crossover yet. So what... | |
| What's the funniest song you ever heard? Tom Waits album "Nighthawks at the Diner (From Easy Street)"here's a blur drizzle down the plateglassas a neon swizzle stick stirrin up the sultry night airand a yellow biscuit of a buttery cue ball moonrollin' maverick across an obsidian skyas th... | |
| Any SVHS machines with dual outputs? The Sony SVHS hi fi SLV-R1000 does. I am currently using one I bought off EBAY that was brand new, using it to transfer home movies to my computer to edit and burn to DVD.Mine will be for sale here at Audiogon when I'm through if your looking for ... | |
| Does anyone do good protest music anymore? Nrchy, How about that old tune, "Da Speakers Hit Me In Da head, Da Turkey Stole My Wallet?" | |
| Which components knocked you out on first listen? Nrchy, My conscience has been bothering me, it's time to fess up. Remember when you were here and you thought a pick pocket had taken your wallet?Well, when you were out cold from the "big bang" speaker, I snagged your cash to help pay for system ... | |
| Visit the Wonderful World of Analog Raul Style As I said before Raul, you are a MANIAC and I love you for it. Congratulations on featuring all that cool analog stuff and thanks to 4yanx for his hard work (another analog nut).This is exactly what Audiogon is about, people enjoying each others p... | |
| Killing the Myth:Soundlabs with SET 845based ONLY Aroc, is that person your referring to me? If not, add another to the list. I ran Sound-Lab Ultimate Ones for nearly two years with the original Viva 572 based amp (21 watts) and later the 845 version.Indeed, the big Sound-Labs will produce accept... |