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of nice looking S2 drivers on Audiogon right now for not unreasonable price of $2.5k obo. Not a bad deal to get a second pair for a fundamental channel....
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Hm, I just paid attention that over 1000 people have reviewed this thread… I’m keep receiving emails form people who feel “insulted” that I did not keep the popular DL103 and DL103R at the level of respect as it treated by those Audiogon intel...
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Hello RomyI read with great interest your site and enjoy your point of view. But I have a question for you.There are two Expressive Tech SU-1 for sale on Audiogon, but the face plates look different.I ws wondering if they are the same with the ...
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Hi,Thanks the S2s and EV T-350s were sold to UK based gentleman that took the PLANE to come pick them up! Hope he enjoys them. He is doing five-way installation and seems to have auditioned a lot of drivers already. He also plays a great guitar!I als...
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Next level of foolishnes: $2800 for a record clamp (!!!)http://app.audiogon.com/listings/tweaks-shun-mook-lp-clamp-and-accessories-2013-11-22-accessories-canadaBravo marketing people!...
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Well, when someone is not able to understand what he hears....http://tempuri.org/tempuri.html...
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Look at more posts the A’gon there posted a bout and Rauliruegas passed his observations about Micro Seiki turntables.
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1350008574&openflup&106&4#106
He might be right....
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Perrew,I do not know if you use sarcasm in there but Lamm LP2 is not my bellowed phonostage. In fact I am one of the very few people whop do not like it at all. How much in what I do not like in Lamm LP2’s MM section com...
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A site visitor sent me a link to Oneobgyn playback at Audiogone as Oneobgyn uses Lamm LL1.
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr_memb.pl?vaslt&1049587927&memb&zzOneobgyn
Whatever Oneobgyn was expressing at Audiogone abo...
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[quote user="skushino"] Being new to subs, isn't there an obvious danger of over loading this little room with too much bass energy? [/quote]Where did you get this bogus notion? What does it mean: “loading this little room with too much bass energy”....
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This weekend I was told that there is a new power conditioner out there: Dmitri from Running Springs Audio. I never heard the company and have no idea that they are, what they do and what the stand for.
A quick search lead me to number of posi...
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What do you know: I invested into my entertainment and subscribed “The Absolute Sound”. Sometimes it is really amusing to read this magazine. Those audio publications quite long time moved in my home from the “toilet reading” into the section where m...
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I lost all hope for horn loaded Lowther speakers . Got Phile Mikey (fremmer) recommended TT and new old MC cartrige (benz Mc3) so analong front sounds comparable to old modded MCintosh CD player I have. I finished (took al ong time ) Hagerman c...
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... it is a pity. There was so much useful information about it at Audiogon thread (...the brightest professors / technical Staff at Stanford University worked on it, it did beat all other serious turntables in noise & everything possible ...) an...
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I did a search on "best sounding version of itunes" and found the following :Posted 02-23-2009 on the AudiogoN forum - Ehider wrote :"...there have been slight variations in the sound of iTunes. Some of the updates (but not all by any means) actually...
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Thanks, unicon, I know nothing about the Wharfedale and I do not really looking for monitors anymore. In fact my monitor quest ended up to be catastrophe and if I know then what I know now I would not do it and would just buy off a pair of vintage ac...
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To be practical, Pure Power needs to sell the design or system to some company that has the capitalization to market and improve it effectively. Years after their move back to Canada we see no change in their basic operation which seems to consist of...
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[quote user="Thorsten"] I did use the term "crappy" in the connection with the tonearm in an ironic sense. Have you lived so long among US Americans you lost your sense of irony? Also, i do not suggest crappy Phonostages, merely ones with low input c...
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Hello Romy and thank you for a fast replyYou are absolutely correct, but it's the question of money, which I don't have a lot of. Like we say in Russia - "Bednost ne porok, no bolshoe svinstvo" :-) So when I saw this one for $1000 (new Shelters are s...
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[quote user="ArmAlex"]
This thread is becoming more and more similar to threads in Audiogon and other look like sites.
But I agree with below comments
Anyway my maxim is:
beware of hifi salesmen (or self-appointed '...
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[quote user="Dmitry"]
I'm shopping for a Dynavector DV-20X High Output MC. So far I've only been quoted $580 - 20% trade-in for my existing DV-10X5 cartridge = $460. But if I could get it cheaper, especially much cheaper, from an over-seas sou...
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Romy,there are box-speaker manufacturers that use exactly this approach, so nothing is so new about it. I think Karma and Evolution Acoustics speaker (also layered construction) come to mind, see below.As to CNC routering, it needs a CNC cutting ...
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The Audiogon leader: “Oosterum Loudspeaker Systems”, the Netherlands manufacturer responsible for the Kharma loudspeakers, recently announced that they terminate the long-term relationships with corporation “Toys R Us”. The founded Charles van Ooster...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Marc Mickelson had an “honor” to make my site in past:
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=760
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=2773
Marc is the “gear of the machinery” a...
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Thanks, Jeff. Another reader also e-mailed to me the name of the horn (Tineo Horn), and I used it to find this "shopping" link:
https://app.audiogon.com/listings/full-range-usa-tube-audio-labs-tineo-j-horn-loudspeaker-live-event-2014-06-28-speaker...
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If the setup is semi acceptable, after ten years one should lose the evaluation part of listening experience and treat the system like a kitchen radio or car playback and simply enjoy the music. I think ten years is a minimum to achieve the position ...
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*** This ever-present surrogate high resolution become an identity of today audio, the unfortunate identify I have add…. Did you note that that all so-called high-end items while they try to send a message to users that they sounds “better” in ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] samuel33 wrote: …. I can't stop laughing when I read your comments about the audiophile mafia, you are so right.
Samuel, it is important, reading my self-obsessive rage about the industry, do not take the things out...
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[quote user="unicon"] I disagree.-My system does not sound crap. It certainly does interest me but it is not the matter.-And I haven't lost interests in sound but maybe opposite.If you read carefully I say HiFi playbacks doesn't turn me on anymore. I...
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I think I remember James saying that the center channel should be the strongest channel, and if this is the case he might not scrub the full 6 dB from the L+R "sum". James did say the device "corrects" for mistakes embedded in the original, wrongly-c...
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