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| the one that got away - how do you handle grief? You can either follow an auction until the last minute, which some enjoy, or use a sniper and enter your maximum bid and forget about it - you'll either get it or you won't. Some enjoy the drama of actively bidding themselves; I tired of it early... | |
| Went to buy Vandersteen 2C speakers and came home with a conrad-johnson Premier 11A. I run Gold Lion KT88s in my Premier 11a in my main system - a good sounding combination. What is your preamp? I use a CJ Premier 14 which is a nice match with the 11a (and a Premier 15 phono stg in another system) I also have a secondary system ... | |
| What are My Options for Ripping My CD Collection ? I ripped over 4,000 CDs on my lap top using DbPowerAmp. Did it every night while watching TV and transferred the rips to a network hard drive (two in tandem as a safeguard against one going down. Took awhile but you only have to do it once. | |
| It's hard to let things go; it's good to let things go Well I also tend to hang onto cars (another hobby). Wish I'd kept a vintage Lamborghini - would be worth around 4X as much today..... | |
| It's hard to let things go; it's good to let things go Although selling equipment on sounds good, it is hard to do in reality - you can reconfigure systems to see what works nest with other components but I have a lot of gear I have owned for a long time and after experimenting I assembled it into thr... | |
| Vertical Stacking Equipment You can space them apart, stacked, by using four sorbothane pucks between them - try and avoid placing them to cover any ventilation slots. | |
| No wonder nothing sells: wire transfer only I shared office space with another lawyer. I did several transactions by giving the money required to him and he told the seller that he would hold it and undertook to forward it to the seller when that gear showed up at his office in good shape.... | |
| What speaker is the most musical, one you never want to sell? I have kept the speakers that pleased me the most over the years. Main system = Wilson Maxx2, second system - Vandersteen 4A, third system = Martin Logan CLS | |
| How Cartridges Fall Out Of Favor Over Time I rarely change cartridges unless they somehow come to grief. I find one that I like the sound of and keep it for years. At the moment I have three systems and use a Koetsu Urushi, a Lyra Clavis and a Goldring Eroica LX . | |
| High Value Phono Stages Wspohn, I and the internet remember the Classe DR3 as a 25W Class A amplifier that was indeed excellent sounding, but how are you getting 500W out of it, even in bridged mode? As I recall it ran quite hot even producing 25W owing to Class A opera... | |
| High Value Phono Stages PS - the bridged DR3 VHC was solid as a rock into a 1 ohm load so many were bought by owners of Apogee Scintillas which had a 1 ohm impedance (early production went as low as 1/4 ohm which would melt down many amps_ | |
| High Value Phono Stages Yes - if you spray and then run the controls back and forth it will clean them - I had to do that as well. There probably aren't many DR7s out there - they cost $4900 US new. and they still bring $2k or more used.. I also use Classe DR3 VHC bri... | |
| Conrad Johnson Phono Preamps The CJ Premier 15 is excellent but you would need a head amp if you use a low output MC cartridge. I run one in one of my systems and use a very cost effective Hagerman Piccolo head amp with excellent results. | |
| High Value Phono Stages The best phono stages I have heard are the John Curl Vendetta but they are very hard to find - no one who has one (myself included) ever sells them. His Parasound Halo JC 3 is also excellent. I have listened to a Herron in my system and you would... | |
| Things that “blow your mind” The first time I listened to an all Quad system. And it produced...music. Those ugly old speakers could float an image like nothing else. |