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A few versus that connect you........what song is it?
Out on the road todayI saw a Deadhead sticker on a CadillacA little voice inside my head said:"Don’t look back, you can never look back." I have quite seriously toyed with making that one into a bumper sticker.A little bit of recursion for the res... 
Garage sale system
yes, he won, but the energy theft was in the work involved of getting there cheaply. Cheap, on paper, complex and involved, in the end. But the price was right. Ah well...a well executed trade off, one might say. 
Are medium power push pull tube amplifiers more articulate than high powered units?
the "multi tube per rail" detail smearing problem exists in solid state as well.the ’sweetest’ sound of any given amplifier line up is the single pair output devices or even single ended. A 20 year long living example was always the Bryston 4b vs ... 
Most Important, Unloved Cable...
OK, here’s one for you Skeptics: Prove that objectivity exists.Good luck with that. 
Most Important, Unloved Cable...
Take a look at Geoff's CV and tell us again... that he was born on the wrong side of the dark ages. 
Are future improvements in Amp/PreAmps slowing to a crawl?
"As a bit of a tip: its probably not a good idea to talk about 'distortion-less' in the way that you do, it strains credulity."~~~~~~~Yes, straining credulity is my job. I hate it when people touch my stuff. 
Most Important, Unloved Cable...
Most importantly, anyone who has actually taken a look at Randi’s challenge..and done so with the trained eyes of a statistician or person who designs rigorous scientific testing regimens.. that person soon finds out that his tests do not follow a... 
Parasound A-23 or Parasound HCA 2200
The dead cap issue is tied to thermal and electrical stressing and some amps are anomalies that only appear over time. EG, I’ve got more than a few 30-40+ year old amps where the main filter caps measure and look fine. that is usually the rule, bu... 
Are the folks at Vandersteen ok?
Importantly, people are singular human beings, and their time is limited. They have to work, not just communicate.Different mental states take time to switch between and doing so constantly is stressful....and time consuming on it’s own. When I (K... 
Parasound A-23 or Parasound HCA 2200
Depending on age and use, both of them might need to be recapped. If the A23 is near the start of the production run, ie, 2003 is the date code on the one I’ve got floating round here, and it needed new main filter caps. Nothing unusual there, it ... 
2017 vs. 1990s - How far we have come
Quincy Jones spent a month, apparently, just on the drum/bass track(s) of the one song we speak of. So it’s definitely a ’studio’ production.  
Curious about older "world class" D/A converters
Yes, the PCM63-k is a 20 bit ladder or r-2-r dac.my day to day streaming dac has a pair of PCM1702 dac chips, of similar design and spec. Although almost every single part other than the dac chips has been changed. Very non-stock. For 16/44 it wou... 
2017 vs. 1990s - How far we have come
And then...there is the estimated 8000-10000 songs that ’Sly ’N Robbie’ have played on. If you want groove...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sly_and_Robbie’Love is the Drug’, Grace Jones, is an example of Sly n Robbie’s playing skills. That pair mad... 
Curious about older "world class" D/A converters
Snatch and grab time, I gave you the keys to the kingdom.Other than one of these dacs in that list (the correct Dac or player), you'll have to go to multi-bit discrete to beat them. Which start at over $10k, except for the ones from china. and the... 
Curious about older "world class" D/A converters
pcm1704http://www.dutchaudioclassics.nl/the_complete_d_a_dac_converter_list/1702 (20 bit)1704 (24 bit)https://www.stereophile.com/news/10221/index.html