mitch2
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| Customer Service in High-End Audio If you are getting crappy customer service then you are dealing with the wrong people. In a service industry, there is no excuse for poor service. The best try and put themselves in their customer's shoes.....i.e., if I were a customer and conta... | |
| Listening to equipment at home before you buy With the departure of brick and mortar shops, a number of manufacturers have embraced a model that allows customers to try their gear in their own homes/systems. Some do require the customer to pay a restocking fee and/or return shipping. This i... | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? Careful Geoff, you may be mistaken for a pseudo-skeptic | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? I am currently comparing a couple of different Roon endpoint devices in my system. One of them outputs USB and the other one (the Ambre by Metrum) can output either bnc, AES/EBU, or I2S directly to my Metrum DAC, but not USB. Metrum provided an ... | |
| Best PC to use as a Server look at small green computer, the inexpensive i5 linked should do what you need but they also have a more powerful i7 variant in a couple of configurations. Using these for Roon core and then using the ultraRendu, Metrum's Ambre, or something sim... | |
| What should I hear as my amp breaks in? @blueranger I'm still hoping for that little extraIt sounds as if the new amp already surpasses what you heard from your former amp so what further improvements are you hoping to hear? I am asking because I have owned amps that "checked all the ... | |
| What should I hear as my amp breaks in? @blueranger Immediately I noticed the music came out of a darker background and the music was sweeter and vocals clearer.What you are hearing is good. You should indeed expect to hear immediate improvements with your new amp, particularly since ... | |
| Music Server Recommendation Things are sounding really good now. I have two Roon endpoints here to compare against each other when run from my Antipodes DX as the Roon core.A few weeks ago, I received the SOtM triad (three boxes) consisting of SOtM's sPS-200ultra (Roon endp... | |
| HAVE ALL SALES STOPPED ON AUDIOGON ??? Back in the day.....In the 1990s and 2000s we could buy and try used gear and then sell what didn't work out for about the same money we paid for it. A lot of used equipment changed hands in those days and it was certainly a fun way to try new st... | |
| HAVE ALL SALES STOPPED ON AUDIOGON ??? Typical summer lull.....seen pretty much the same thing for the past 20 years.However, I wouldn't argue if somebody showed numbers indicating a general overall down trend based on many of the folks here having matured their systems and less younge... | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? I auditioned their tubed buffer when it was on "tour" and thought it sounded pretty good for the price when in line with two different passives I have here (both resistor based). I am a little surprised they are not offering both tubed and JFET b... | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? @celander This back and forth is hilarious.I mostly agree. For example, what does "finally come of age" mean? The Hattor is simply a resistor based passive volume control, not unlike Goldpoint, Placette, and others that have come before, and n... | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? @geoffkait Having said that, just going on the photos of the Graphene Gold Rush Tonearm cables, I want some. Uh, Geoff, they do look cool but how are you going to hook them up to the walkman? | |
| Aftermarket Fuses And for cradle type fuse holders, you can take a small orthodontic rubber band and wrap around the top of the holder at each end to apply a little pressure to the contacts. You can also wrap a piece of Teflon tape around the glass body to dampen ... | |
| Aftermarket Fuses @audiolabyrinth What state of the art cable's have you tried? do you own any state of the art cable's? Not sure, I have owned multiple cables retailing for over $1K each and some over $2K. There are always more expensive cables - who is the jud... |