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| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... I will say a Mi Sheberakh prayer of healing for the amp tonight. | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Hey its a high fidelity thread so the sky is the limit here. | |
| How quiet is your Rogue Sphinx? Low I didn't have time to compare in detail including noise levels but both sounded quite good. Pharoah is 3X the price and a good bit larger so to be expected. My dealer who traditionally sells a lot of reasonably pricey tube gear indicated the P... | |
| How quiet is your Rogue Sphinx? Got to hear the Sphinx and pharaoh yesterday. Liked them both very much. Both were a bit larger than I expected but we're a lot of quality product for the dollar. Am considering downsizing my second system to an integrated and the rogues checked a... | |
| Vintage Receiver: TANDBERG, MARANTZ, or…? Yes, Nikko had a lot of very listenable gear back in teh 70's.My choice of receiver that I owned for many years back then was a Hitachi sr804 Class G receiver. IT was a very well made piece. The Class G design enabled more power in a smaller packa... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? The only solution is to offer better value over time in "high end audio". Then more will come. Will the "high end" vendors profit more or less? Like most things I suppose it all depends. | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? IT's probably just "high end" audio as defined in these parts that more do not love. I think many love good music and good sound and find their version of it in more ways than ever tehse days, often on a limited budget.Many people do love anything... | |
| Jazz for aficionados "Would it not be of infinitely more value to accept the fact that there is creativity taking place in any decade and any style?"Infinitely. That's why there are those things called "standards". It gives you a "standard" by which to compare contras... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Hopefully it will not offend anyone if from now on I refer to Geofkait as "Jesus of Tweaks". "CD tweaks" at a minimum.Unfortunately many of the zealots are turning to computer audio and ripping these days so there is need for a new messiah there I... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? Yup me too.I did have the advantage of employee discounts at the time though to help me stretch my very limited student budget that went into both equipment and buying music regularly.I started off as a kid with a Magnavox record player with built... | |
| Jazz for aficionados "my view of music is far from academic;"I would say it is more than that but has a larger than average academic portion that is quite "sound" in of itself.Not that there's anything wrong with that.... :^) | |
| Audio Research and Martin Logan Montis "What difference does it make if the system sounds OK?"A technical mismatch does not mean the results will not "sound good". Its a red flag indicating performance as intended may not be optimal. But nothing says optimal "performance" means best so... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD "If you are not a climatologist or scientist at NOAA or NASA, then you only know a tiny bit about the subject."That's true thanks to our modern media which seems no longer capable of reporting the news in an unbiased and purely factual manner. For... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD "...throughout geologic time" that is. | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Thing is climate has always changed drastically throughout geologic The other thing is we know things we do today can impact climate.The other thing is we can control the second but not the first.If you choose to do nothing about something that yo... |