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@jeff1225 Yes, I can highly recommend Radu and his excellent work!

posted about 3 years ago

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alexberger's System

Wonderful system Alex.  I'm sure it puts many big box modern systems to shame.  Congrats.

posted over 4 years ago

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@gryphongryph It's got beautiful tone and is quiet in my system. No clicks or pops and no noticable noise floor in my system.

posted over 4 years ago

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@gryphongryph I will heartily recommend the AM to anyone who asks.  It's a great dac.  You can see in a post below (on 01.26.20) all the dacs I chose it over.  R...

posted over 4 years ago

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Help!  Please post or PM high quality videos of outstanding musical performances that can be streamed!  I'll collate and share with everyone:  

posted over 4 years ago

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SET bliss/Jazz Haven (In my home).

Hi Charles, have you ever been over to HifiHaven?  I just got recommended to the site at WBF and it looks pretty attractive.  This is the first post I read over there:"

posted over 4 years ago

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SET bliss/Jazz Haven (In my home).

Here's a fun video of Doug Raney discussing jazz guitar in case you all haven't seen it:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy7Ucg...

posted over 4 years ago

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To see and feel the music

I love it!  Your philosophy is so wonderfully correct.  And your opinions are informed by so much critical listening and equipment comparisons, what a wealth of knowledge.  I am...

posted over 4 years ago

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Spoke too soon and added one image and some details of the new DHT pre.

posted over 4 years ago

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Unfortunately my system is in flux due to an impending move, so I don't have pictures or a writeup, but I commissioned a new "Shiny Eyes" DHT line stage from Radu Tarta at Simple Pleasure Tube Amps...

posted over 4 years ago

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@jond Thanks!  And yes indeed.  They're actually motor-run caps, which is why Ducati is involved, and the cheapest way to get larger value film caps for power su...

posted over 4 years ago

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SET bliss/Jazz Haven (In my home).

Hi Charles, I thought you might be happy to hear that Audiogon finally fixed (or at least partially fixed) the Systems notification system.  If you've got the options enabled, you will get an e-mai...

posted over 4 years ago

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@sysadmin & @jaytor Thank you so much for fixing the systems notification system! I really think it'll improve the audiog...

posted over 4 years ago

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@jaytor Thanks! I've stopped by and seen the ones on your page too. They are also great. I'd love to hear your speakers in particular!  Getti...

posted over 4 years ago

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@cymbop And yes, just a print of an ink drawing I picked up at a little hippie campout in Ohio long ago. I think the guy who made it was in his early 20s at the ...

posted over 4 years ago

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@rixthetrick I've tried bypass caps a few times and had mixed results.  I liked them (i.e., the same Duelund silvers you're using) over the inter-stage coupling ...

posted over 4 years ago

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jaytor's Main System

Congrats on the diy movement. I also got into that over the past few years and it really opens your eyes to the choices designers are making and the parts cost to retail value people are often work...

posted almost 5 years ago

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robert_wakeling's System

More details please!

posted almost 5 years ago

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Ken Fritz's System

Amazing. Would love to read more about the speaker design/build too.

posted almost 5 years ago

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hi5harry's System

Would love to see some pictures of the amps!

posted almost 5 years ago

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florianwiegand's System

Just beautiful. Would love to hear it.

posted almost 5 years ago

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@noromance "Have". I bought those springs from a Chinese seller on AliExpress... $38 for a set of 8.  They handily outperformed my isoacoustic pucks and now exis...

posted about 5 years ago

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Recently finished a dac shootout... had the Lampizator Amber 3, Audio Mirror Tubadour 3 SE, ifi iDSD pro, and Shiit Bifrost 2 on hand.  In my system, the Audio Mirror was the wi...

posted over 5 years ago

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@ivan_nosnibor Thanks Ivan.  Still very much a work in progress, but the Coincident PRE's always provide honest feedback, which definitely rewards experimentatio...

posted over 5 years ago

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@gibsonian I really like the DS. It's great and improved every part of my system. Haven't tried all that many pre's though. It's better than source direct and ou...

posted over 5 years ago

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