Audio Flynn

I will have to experiment with my older Link II MSB DAC. I have a back up.

In my DAC....I rolled different tubes and upgraded to discrete op-amps to get a sound that I wanted. Lotta fun. I would like to pay someone to upgrade the OP amps in my MSB Link.

I have been ripping CDs. Anyone using a MIDI device to rip vinyl to J River? What device?

Chip is maybe 20 % of the situation. Power supply, op amps, transport, firmware and others. A forum member I cannot recall brought his Jolida 100 over about ten years ago. It was excellent for attack, decay, depth of soundstage and non fatiguing. 12ax7 is a sound I prefer.

I went from RB 5s to Chorus II fifteen years ago because I found the Chorus by accident locally. The RB 75s would have sounded great on the Sanus lead shot filled stands. They are keepers and travel easy!

It has been a blessing to reconnect to the music through tubes with Craig's help over the past 15 years or so.

It seems like a good price point and functionality for a sight unseen purchase. I live in the sticks and buy all my audio sight unseen. I would expect Maverick products to sound better than an AQ Dragonfly (with more functionality) but not a good as a Channel Islands DAC. http://www.ciaudio.com/products/VDA2 CI Audio did not include USB input in this model which is kind of strange. I am starting my J River digital library and would require USB input in a DAC or use the Halide Design S/PDIF Bridge.

What horn loaded sub woofer are you thinking about? I downsized to a smaller house but with an excellent long wall and hallways to help negate reflections. I am out of room for inserting a large sub into the room.

The heritage horn mid range to me allows the listener to hear where the music lives. My subwoofer has been in storage since 2010. Maybe if I listened to more pipe organ I would miss some music under 45 Hz. Rf7 is a great speaker but the LS would best it with acoustic guitar piano and voice.

In some ways the worst thing to happen to rock and roll was the Phil Specter 'wall of sound'. I think Stills Manasass and first solo LP suffered from it. "All things must Pass" from George Harrison as well. Any of my Allman Brothers LPs are disappointing. CD remaster of "live at Fillmore East" sounds better than any Allman Brothers LP I have. Joe Walsh LPs do not do justice to the music.

Tull not full. Crazy automatic correction. Last night I played Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton. Not A classic jazz LP but Transformation was a pretty good fit for my jazz taste needing some melody. So much of 50-70s jazz and blues will never be on CD or digital streaming. Greatest hits CDs get boring quick. The other odd vinyl discovery I made recently was The Crusader's with BB King and the London Philharmonic live from the 70s. Not an audiophile pressing the sure but an interesting historical work. BB King was huge world wide and this LP captured the depth and width of soundstage one would expect from BB live my Michel TT would not have achieved.

I got to see last fall's Full rock opera tour. Young band and excellent av experience.

one of the forum members from years ago made it for me. It is on some decent hard drive out there.I was a bit bummed but you play enough games in that tournament you just increase the probability of upset. Like Kansas getting defeated yesterday. Go Green!

I was just kind of going off stream of conciseness. I did buy the VPI Classic 1 with Sounsmith Otello and Counterintuitive. I did not want to seem like this is the best turntable ever. I think there are amazing options on the market. The intention was to buy USA products and keep the project simplified by not going with lomc. 3_4 years from know I may get the itch to go all out on a lomc preamp from NOS Valves. A hearty record collection deserves an analog front end to achieve it's potential.

I have heard a few really good turntables. SOTA, Lenco, Michell and others. Priorities being different in the past decade I never found huge fault wthe my old Michell Focus. Allowing myself one toy a year in other pursuits of late I decided it was time to acquire a made in USA turntable to be my last a fifty five, perhaps. Major influences were not wanting to buy a separate arm (sota) and really liking my VPI record cleaner. Crazy part is VPI has so many products that seen to oveHedgesNomad traveler and scout Jr after hundreds of hours of internal ocd debate did not seem like a significant upgrade. It had to be the Classic with longer arm and Soundsmith moving iron cart. There were just too many other life complexities to commit to a LOMC future. First forty hours were plodding to keep tweaking in level,azimuth and tracking force while the Otello cart home in. The kilobuck TT experiment is quite engaging. My 3000 LP collection no doubt needs thinning out but the diverse first pressings I have will be with me until I assume room temperature. Peter Gun, Provocative Percussion, Time Fades Away and Michael Hedges among dozens of others have unprecedented depth of soundstage, attack and decay. Sweet realism! Of course Tull "Thick as a Brick" first pressing is a tad overly compressed and bass heavy. What were they smoking? Not so good but the flute is spot on. It is a huge decision with so many options of table arm and cart but well worth considering.

I have heard a few really good turntables. SOTA, Lenco, Michell and others. Priorities being different in the past decade I never found huge fault wthe my old Michell Focus. Allowing myself one toy a year in other pursuits of late I decided it was time to acquire a made in USA turntable to be my last a fifty five, perhaps. Major influences were not wanting to buy a separate arm (sota) and really liking my VPI record cleaner. Crazy part is VPI has so many products that seen to oveHedgesNomad traveler and scout Jr after hundreds of hours of internal ocd debate did not seem like a significant upgrade. It had to be the Classic with longer arm and Soundsmith moving iron cart. There were just too many other life complexities to commit to a LOMC future. First forty hours were plodding to keep tweaking in level,azimuth and tracking force while the Otello cart home in. The kilobuck TT experiment is quite engaging. My 3000 LP collection no doubt needs thinning out but the diverse first pressings I have will be with me until I assume room temperature. Peter Gun, Provocative Percussion, Time Fades Away and Michael Hedges among dozens of others have unprecedented depth of soundstage, attack and decay. Sweet realism! Of course Tull "Thick as a Brick" first pressing is a tad overly compressed and bass heavy. What were they smoking? Not so good but the flute is spot on. It is a huge decision with so many options of table arm and cart but well worth considering.

I infer you would have to wait a while for used to show up in the market. Where custom furniture meets audio at a high level. Greg's room at AXPONA two years ago was a pleasure to visit.

Nothing better than a HH Scott phono section in their tube integrated. As far as made in the USA. VPI makes a good entry-level table. Grado and Soundsmith makes cartridges. B&k, Conrad Johnson and Audio Research used equipment can be found if you are patient. Not made in the USA but my UK made J A Michell turntable cost me $ 700 13 years ago and has only needed one belt. Simplistically $ 55 a year for a great thirty year old vintage TT. It can be done.

Depends on weather or not you want to listen to zeros and ones or real music. Why bother with Klipsch speakers when a car radio will do just as well. I'm also sure these streaming sites would never waste your time by playing a song you don't want to hear, but maybe have a promotional stake in, and of course, computers are infallible when it comes to delineating your tastes. Ya know, cd's and their digital streaming ilk theoretically sound better, but they have some kinda subliminal distortion that drives me buggy. Cd's I'm always turning down, lps I'm always reaching over to inch up the volume. It took me several digital iterations to get to the three box system which still has listener fatigue greater than an old Dual 510 TT with Grado Silver cart. All listeners are different.

Completely subjective and untried I have read good things about Accuphase. E-370 integrated would keep things simple.

Ever since I went to a sustainable lifestyle dusty wood heating the home, maintaining my precious bodily fluids and the like there are consequences. I use an ash vacuum for the woodstove, filtered well water, and homegrown veggies while stuffing the freezer with snipe and jackalope to make it though the winter. I have not played with my digital front end for years and I am looking for a non pharma cuetical tweak.

Back when DVD-A came out Technics A-10 had some very good equipment reviews. I opted for the lower cost sister product Panasonic RP-91. Kids in college.... I maybe cleaned the laser 10 years ago. No issues it keeps running well but does take a bit of time to read a disc when loading in. Since I have a new TT to listen to I was thinking this is a good time to spin vinyl and clean the digital transport. How often do you clean your laser?

I do not believe I have any Sam and Dave in the vinyl cellar. With my first TT upgrade in 12 years showing up today I will be exploring the cellar in the coming months. Maybe I do. Coming back from two years of streaming exploration via Dragonfly it is time to open the vinyl Christmas presents meticulously preserved. VPI Classic and Sound Smith made in the USA are only fitting for USA music.

Belle Chorus II RB5 with Sanus lead shot filled stands Odd not one I saw listed a Palladium? MCM and K Horns I have heard sound excellent but have not had the opportunity to own.

Oil needs to be at 75_95 USD per barrel to warrant reinvestment in petrochemical infrastructure as I have worked in this market for over 20 years.Saudi led OPEC production output has been very effective at achieving their objective by deteriorating USA energy independence.