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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]First of all I need to admit that I do not believe to people who claim that Purepower produces noise. My units are completely silent and I know other people who have completely silent Purepowers. I have no doubts that the p...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]That is a whole point: the shape of the sinusoid and consequential harmonic distortions are not being the decisive factor that responsible for better sound. It is sad that neither PP owners nor we the users after years of u...
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It is true never send your unit back for repair to Pure Power. Mine was never returned and my money was never refunded.I agree the sound of the battery was the most pleasant and quiet when I had my PP2000. It is an approach to the problem, but it is ...
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[quote user="steverino"]You would need to keep the other components the same to test them all but that would inevitably favor some TT designs over the others...[/quote]Spot on. Loads of hype, a bit shy on the experimental proof. It starts out with a ...
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[quote user="dkarmeli"]I have an AF1. I understand your justified bias regarding reviews, but this is one of those rare cases where the reviewer does know what he's talking about.[/quote]David, I hope you understand Paul's recalcitrance. We've all be...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]My experience that any wide-public commercial devise that meant to be use foe audio placation in the best targeted to work with SONY 5ch receivers that people get in Best Buy. The application that we use in so called high-...
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[quote user="thegooddoctor"]This looks to be extremely well made with the recharging, battery, and regeneration portions separated into three discrete chassis with industrial-type umbilicals/connectors between each. I have seen such a configurati...
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[quote user="eli8888"]And end up with a bunch of useless gear as most I know do little to solve the problem. They just tune the sound not always for the good. [/quote]The key is to find the deficiencies in your system by listening to it and to co...
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[quote user="miab"]I had a dac that took 10 months, a turntable bearing a year and two compression drivers that took almost three years to arrive. All of them had me wanting to give up on them but persevered for the goal. I have spoken to Damien and ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I am very sure that if you buy directly from PP then they will not make
you to pay until you get the unit. I very much do not advocate buying from PP
or from any other manufacture. [/quote]Not correct. However, I am glad ...
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Do not buy from this company. They took my money with no intention to ever deliver a unit to me. If you find a unit on the shelf in a store and it is functioning, buy that unit and take it home. Don't give Purepower your money up front. You will just...
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As some here may remember, I purchased a number of years ago, before the debacle and attempted coup at PurePower, a nice Pure Power 2000. It always suffered from a slight buzzing when plugged in, which I feel was due an internal grounding issue. This...
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[quote user="Paul S"]it amazes me that these guys can so summarize their experiences after tasting hundreds of wines, let alone "predicting" based on such limited exposure under such variable (and sometimes horrendous) conditions.[/quote]Paul, it's c...
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Agreed that Parker has jammed up the works.Never the less, I applaud him for giving me access to much of the wine world and making it manageable. His efforts we forget were in many ways a "fight the system" newsletter that ultimately exploded and bec...
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Yes, Las Cases is actually my personal favorite. It decays in a delectable way when it is supposedly over the hill, with incredible complexity and infinite layers. Barton is much more prim and proper, taking its own time to come around but ultimately...
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[quote user="Paul S"]we should all try to remember that Parker actually says outright that he is not a Burgundy guy.[/quote]Or, perhaps, that Burgundy is not (yet) a Parkerwine?...
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Clark, This simple gadget does what it says. It does make young wine slightly more mellow. The perfect thing for when you don't have a perfectly aged bottle at hand.I also happen to love a device called the Wine Shield. You pop it in the bottle and i...
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Yes, the cult of Parker is pervasive and has changed modern winemaking. It is wonderful so long as you simply buy and sell the wines without opening them. I admit to being a sucker in the past, at the urging of a local wine merchant, now being stuck...
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Paul,I have vigorously aerated a few wines to life, but I find this typically works best for tight, tannic, younger wines that can take it. Still this method means the flavors will emerge, partially salvaging the opened bottle, but are quite ephemera...
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Totally agreed that the 90 Cuvee Winston Churchill is spectacular. I rarely drink champagne, but even I set aside a few bottles just in case.Adrian...
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Clark,Sweet on sweet is a bit too much for my palate. I would much prefer to enjoy d'Yquem with something austere to balance it. Sofia Gubaidulina's Offeratorium or Krzysztof Penerecki's The Awakening of Jacob come to mind as suitable choices...Adria...
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It is detailed elsewhere on the website, but when I sent my PP2000 to be repaired, I received endless promises. It turned out the company was going through a major crisis with a Chinese manufacturer and distributor trying to usurp the brand. They eve...
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[quote user="de charlus"]...good wines do come from the most obscure producers, particularly in great vintages, but considerable expertise and an eidetic memory are required to amass sufficient understanding to easily negotiate the admittedly complex...
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I agree that the most perfect wine I have tasted is from Burgundy, but I personally find the system of classification a bit too exhausting for me to be able to find good bottles versus mediocre ones, so I am tend to stay in the realm of Bordeaux, wit...
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Ha, the joke's on you. The SAME wine (albeit not en magnum) is the one which Michelle holds up as the paragon against which all else are judged. And here I bought a case of the 1989 Mouton at the corner grocery as it was on sale along side the day ol...
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I guess it never occurred to me how special it is to have a stable relationship with a woman with whom you can sit down, discuss yesterday's symphony over a bottle of Bordeaux, and then she tolerates you smoking your pipe by the fire as you read a go...
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[quote user="de charlus"]which of the Playboy cigar books do you refer to? It would seem that there are two.[/quote]I refer to "Playboy: The Book of Cigars" from 2010. Aaron Sigmond and I worked for a number of years on this project, with my doing a ...
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This harkens back to the famous story of Zino Davidoff, the forefather of all cigar merchants. A well-dressed customer came in to his shop to purchase a cigar - this was back in the days when all cigars were Cuban and smoking common. The businessman ...
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Pipes are an excellent companion in cold weather and outdoors to be sure, but I agree a good cigar is best enjoyed at leisure indoors. My solution is that there is a fireplace in the room where I listen. I have a chair next to the fireplace, so that ...
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Regarding aged cigars, avoid anything Dominican. They do not age well. I suggest Punch and H. Uppman as the ones that have aged the best. I have a few Cuban Davidoffs and Dunhills left. They are quite sublime at this point. I generally avoid pairing ...
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