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| I need Hign compliance cartridges I use Koetsus in my main system. In my vintage system, I use a Franken Denon 103 that has a micro ridge stylus, has been repotted into a wood body and tweaked by Steve Leung at VAS. His prices are reasonable, he can often supply the completed cart... | |
| Head-Fi can be so hardcore I don’t actively participate on that forum but DubStep Girl’s exhaustive comparison of rectifier tubes was invaluable to me and among the various tubes I’ve rolled, I found her descriptions to be spot on. Of course, market prices have gone up and ... | |
| Best Forum to hear experienced audiophiles exchange thoughts? Back in the day, before the Internet, we used to do listening sessions among friends. Some were associated with audio clubs --not so easy to find unless you are near a large metro area--and some were entirely informal--just a hang at someone's hou... | |
| Has Your Hobby Changed? Congrats on retirement @mikelavigne. If your experience is anything like mine, you'll find yourself just as busy, but hopefully spending more of that time on the things you care about. I started in this hobby as an audiophile with audiophile gea... | |
| Original Quads (57) - the perfect amp I ran super tweets with my 57s back in the day-- Deccas, which I still have and Sequerras, which were a good substitute (also used ribbons). It gave the Quad a broader sweet spot, given how beamy the original tweeter panel is- but it wasn’t a sub... | |
| Original Quads (57) - the perfect amp @noromance -+1. | |
| Original Quads (57) - the perfect amp Quad II with quality glass. I’m running real GEC KT 66s. I did a piece on the web which has links on amps for the 57. I’ve owned mine since 1974 (they’ve been restored by Electrostatic Solutions-- there are several other amps mentioned). When I us... | |
| My Sonic Lab Platinum v Gold Signature @wrm57 - I’d have to look at the unit or a drawing of it to tell you but with the Airtight Supreme I think the setting was roughly 82 ohms [oops, I checked the drawing I think it was 70 ohms] on the "primary" side (if that is the correct way to de... | |
| My Sonic Lab Platinum v Gold Signature @wrm57 - you and I remain doppelgängers in so many respects. I have never used the MSL though had a few Airtights back in the day. When I finally visited Albert in person-- long overdue- he had two 14 inch Kuzma 4 Pts set up on his tweaked out SP-... | |
| 6DJ8 vs. 6922? I rolled these in a Steelhead and preferred the sound of old Telefunkens to the Siemens b/c they were more 3d though the Siemens were probably more linear. It may depend on the circuit and the overall voicing of the system. At the time I was buyin... | |
| "But it sounds better at night...." I addressed power at the meter. Made sure everything was optimal without buying into fancy audio conditioners or the like. I do have whole house surge but after making sure the main service panel had no issues, set up a subsystem, tied to the main... | |
| Turntable Isolation Journey Duck, if the image is already on the web (in my case the above from a web site I control), you simply capture the image address and use the tool that looks like a panorama, open and paste in the image address. I don’t know if A-gon supports image... | |
| Turntable Isolation Journey I certainly don’t advocate getting all spendy on a Minus K if you can solve a footfall problem less expensively. I couldn’t for a couple reasons- one, the structure of the house- it is an 1880s landmark that was painstakingly rebuilt from the orig... | |
| Advice on how to liquidate system I’d hold off before you jump. Judging by your user name, you are in NY? SkyFi through Dave Wasserman (ex-Stereo Exchange) buys high end, but there are all kinds of things you can do to try and recover some of your hearing. I’m really big on integr... | |
| Why do almost all women today hate home audio? @tylermunns--There is so much I'm interested in; audio preservation and digital standards, film preservation and ephemera; I just finished helping out somebody at UCLA on the history of music for early TV; the law stuff gives me certain advantages... |