Air, Magnets, String & Tape

She might as well have sent it to me! But Dan, she did send the reply to you...... and every one else on this site. Her reply contained the words &qu...

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Air, Magnets, String & Tape

Dan - I sent a text to my daughter about her ghetto dock comment and this forum. Her reply back.:)you're all over the top audio nuts.

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Air, Magnets, String & Tape

Hey Dan – you know me...Mr Fun ...heh heh ..being voluntarily retired agrees with me. I used to be the hard ass in the family laying down the law. That role seems to be evolving to my wife. :^0. We...

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Air, Magnets, String & Tape

This piece of wood cost me as much as the recent Audio Research DAC8 I acquired. To me watching/hearing all that mass hit the w...

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Air, Magnets, String & Tape

Digital update Between summer activities I managed to load up about 50 cds to the WD MyBook hard drive. Also downloaded the

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You Enjoy Mystuff

You are very talented Kevin. Congratulations. Your vinyl rig fronted by the ET2 appears to be sitting on top of a throne.Glad to see your setup up and running. Enjoy the music. Cheers C...

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Air, Magnets, String & Tape

Did the big smoke yield rewards?It did indeed. I went, I saw, I heard and more. What I heard was convincing enough that I managed to deplete our bank acc...

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Air, Magnets, String & Tape

DAC update. Back in town and will be heading to the big smoke (city) as we call it here to listen to at least two DACs this holiday weekend. This time the ARC DAC8 and an ESOTERIC, can't rememb...

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Air, Magnets, String & Tape

Latest music pickups including Classical, two Popular ladies and Led Zep Used Classical Lps from two visits to my secret place.Brahams Symphony No. 4 on VOX. Mahler Symphony No. 4 G Min...

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Air, Magnets, String & Tape

Sam - the LA Kings are ahead of the New York Rangers 2 games to 0 in the Stanley Cup final. Do you know how much money the people in the Greater Toronto Area (over 6 million people) each would ...

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Air, Magnets, String & Tape

The TASCAM DA-3000 is an appealing product as it features BNC SDIF-3 inputs and outputs...one can pass native DSD signals if one prefers a different DSD DA converter than what is...

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Air, Magnets, String & Tape

DSD128 is very good...haven't listened to DSD256, yet.Should you have the opportunity, audition the non-oversampling, i.e., NOS, DACs from Audio Note.

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Air, Magnets, String & Tape

Dan - its two years almost to the day that my previous company shut down the Canadian consulting team that I was part of. And it took 6 months away from work for me to realize what I had been p...

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Air, Magnets, String & Tape

You state that on your Technics SP-10 set-up, that the spindle resonates at 5-7hz. Correct me if I'm misquoting you or if I'm totally wrong. How do you come up with this measurem...

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Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubes

Banquo you are forgetting your other speaker blood brother on your thread ...Vegasears also owns 801 (who I still feel has the best moniker on audiogon) I am now livi...

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Air, Magnets, String & Tape

An update.Current status of "voluntarily retired from work" continues.... much to the chagrin of my wife and kids. I am just having too much fun. My main room - circa 1994.......

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The Summit

Very nice work Dan .. you are very talented! Jean Nantais believes higher mass will only improve the sonics of an idler. His designs focus on high solid mass which leave space around the critic...

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Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubes

Nice job on the Discovery wire Banquo. I just saw the pic. The exposed tonearm wire alongside the exposed guts of the victor make my system look like a spawn of the great...

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Air, Magnets, String & Tape

I tried your test and I get no noise except a little buzzing from the tweeter--that's always been there, even when I had shielded cables.Banquo, I wonder...

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Air, Magnets, String & Tape

Hi Banquo - in regards to cable risers. I have some that I made. I have also managed to trip myself up behind the amp /speakers with them. they can be dangerous. I use them to be more neat and ...

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Air, Magnets, String & Tape

Hi SlawI really wasn't sure how to answer your question so I broke it into two parts. "you have so many rooms/systems/ongoing threads" Re: the rooms/systems - I guess ...

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Air, Magnets, String & Tape

Krell's version of the 800 Bass Alignment Filter on its way to me from the US. Damn that Canadian dollar. What happened? It was worth more than the US dollar not so long ago. The Krell bass...

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Smiling

Hi Cymbop - when do u need to give back the matrix 800's ? Mine have made this long winter much easier to deal with. Nice space and system. Your dog looks really friendly. Happy Listeni...

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Air, Magnets, String & Tape

The piece of thread that is powering my turntable is at least one year old now. I find this incredible; but even more so the design of the Verdier which obviously puts very little strain on it....

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Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubes

One condition is that they must be small in diameter (in order to fit inside the pod) yet large enough to work with analysis plus cables. Anyone have any ideas?

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