dgarretson
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| Retail Music Stores Gone uhurit, let's see:Barnes & Noble cardmembers receive about twelve 15% off discount coupons by email each year + 10% off card discount = 25% total discount or $4 savings per typical $17 CD x 12 months = $48 savings$48 savings - $25 gift card co... | |
| Retail Music Stores Gone Nonsense uhurit,A few recent scores as Barnes & Noble, including some off-beat labels:Ali Farka Toure "Savane"Kenny Werner "Lawn Chair Society"Daniel Levin Quartet "Some Trees"Lee Hazelwood "Cake or Death"Sonny Rollings "Please"Various Chesky ... | |
| What is the best 2A3 SET Amplifier? I've had the Cary 2A3SE monos for years. They are fine amps and much improved after replacing the Cary Audio1 coupling caps. | |
| Capacitors for BAT VK-60 I just replaced Hovlands Musicaps with Mundorf Silver/Gold in a line-stage and am impressed with the improvement. The Mundorfs are more detailed & refined in treble & suppler with a more expansive soundstage. | |
| Retail Music Stores Gone I agree with Itsalldark that Barnes & Noble has the correct model for the brick & mortar music store in times of declining CD sales. They carry less inventory than the CD retail palaces of yore, but their corporate buyers have carefully ta... | |
| Insanely Expensive....and Worth Every Penny Ascribing pricelessness and emotionalism to a commercial purchase tends to release manufacturers from the discipline of the marketplace and into the realm of luxury goods-- where demand becomes inelastic the higher the price. This is a dangerous t... | |
| Insanely Expensive....and Worth Every Penny Great capacitors like the V-Cap TFTF or Mundorf Silver/Gold: they're expensive relative to other coupling caps, but very cost-effective in terms of the performance multiplier that they bring to amps, preamps, and speakers at all price-points. | |
| Neil Young at Massey Hall I would assume Massey Hall will arrive belatedly on Classic Records vinyl, as did Prairie Wind and Living with Law. | |
| Capacitors for BAT VK-60 Paul,What don't you like about V-Cap OIMP? I have been considering these with small TFTF bypass for some large values in my speaker xover (to replace Hovland Musicap.)Regards,Dave | |
| Capacitors for BAT VK-60 Perhaps V-Cap TFTF will make as big an improvement in your VK-60 as they did in my VK75E. | |
| Help with decision on selling Sony SCD-1 A well-modded SCD-1/777ES bears no sonic resemblance to the stock player. | |
| Preamp Caps?Auricap,Mundorf, Hovland, jensen,solen Sherod,Though my experience with substitute couplers is not extensive, in the course of web searches I came across several reviewers with similar observations of discontinuous treble as a result of bypassing non-teflon couplers with small teflon c... | |
| Dealers that don't e-mail or call Years back I worked as a salesman for a company that would occasionally fire a salesmen for failing to return a customer call on a same-day basis. While the company made many mistakes, I don't think they were often wrong to judge salespeople on th... | |
| BAT Blinking blue LED I had the same thing & BAT sent me a replacment bulb. Very simply to install, but I haven't gotten around to it yet, so I can't say for sure that it will solve the problem. | |
| Tubes for BAT VK60. Need help Regarding choice of taps, with the VK60 or VK75 you can try using different taps for t & w. I found my 8R Merlins had a sweeter treble and better bass control with t on the mid tap & w on the high tap. Just couldn't get the best of both wo... |