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  1. Mobiusman

    Audio Bliss Is All About Equipment Synergy And The People Who Make And Service The Equipment

    I am a very fortunate guy to have an amazing audio system that I listen to probably at least 4 hours each day and up to 15 hours. I have had many audio systems during my life and have been engaged in making my ultimate system for a number of years, actually creating it during the past 4 years...
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    Westminster Lab Equipment Makes My Bucket List System My Audio Bliss System

    My Bucket List System has had an unplanned mega enhancement by the addition of a Westminster Lab Quest preamp and a pair of Westminster Lab REI monoblocs when all was supposed to already be in place. I also have the Westminster Lab phono card but due to some ongoing problems in my analog arm, I...
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    High Performance DC cable for MSB DAC by Angus Leung and Westminster Lab Takes My System to Another Level

    I was asked if I would review a new cable that goes between the power supply and the digital section of my MSB DAC. This cable is a power supply cable from Westminster Labs and designer Angus Leung. With nothing to lose I said yes, even though it made no sense to me since there is no signal...
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    Audiophile Spirituality

    As some of you might know I have been assembling my retirement dream system, first conceived when I was 10 years old at a SF audio show with my dad. I retired on 5/1/20, and by previous sacred promise knew that all of my new system had to be fully owned by the day I retired. I also had a budget...
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    Hydrox Chocolate and Cream Cookies- My Original Excess Behavior, Even Before Audio

    I am about to turn 72 and as I reflect on my past, I realize that one of my first addictions, or at least excesses, was my love for Hydrox cookies. Oreo’s the bigger brand, had no appeal for me. But Hydrox cookies, I simply could not eat just one. In fact my normal intake was at least 10 if not...
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    I Figured Out My Love Of Audio After 61 Years

    It took 61 years. for me to get it with regard to audio. Last Friday, I finally got to hear a very close approximation of what my Bucket List System is going to sound like. I have dreamed and fantasized about this since I promised myself when I was 10 years old and at an audio show in SF with my...
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    Two VAC Statement 452 IQ MusicBlocs - The Keystone To My Bucket List System

    For the past three years I have been assembling my “Bucket List System”, the ultimate audio system I could afford and pay for before I retired to fulfill an audio dream conceived when I was 10-at an audio show in San Francisco with my dad. Now I am 71, much older than my projected retirement age...
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    My Bucket List Audio System , Now Complete, Is Beyond My Wildest Dreams

    For the past 2 ½ years, and actually the past 60 years, one of my highest priorities has been to complete a project that began when I was 10 years old at high end audio show in SF with my dad. At that show I promised myself that as I was approaching retirement, I would assemble the best audio...
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    Audio and Retirement--Is There A Linkage? AND, Do I Have An Antidote That Will Make Me Happy? Luckily I Do!!!!! My “Almost Bucket List System” Pt 1

    As anyone who has read any of my original thread posts knows, they are not typical WBF posts, because while they are definitely based on my lifelong audio experiences and typically about the latest in my life-guiding quest to have my ultimate audio system that will help maximize my daily...
  10. Mobiusman

    Roon Update 1.7 build 537

    I am posting this here because I could not find a Roon thread, and yet I imagine many of you who have servers use Roon. Yesterday I received a notice from Roon about an update (Version 1.7 build 537), which I did not install even though I listened for 4 hours straight at serious volumes last...
  11. Mobiusman

    Von Schweikert Family Affair

    As usual, my plans for the future are altered by forces bigger than me. So it should be no surprise that the plan I created at 10 years old for a bucket list audio system has turned out ifferent than projected. Somehow I thought that when all of the equipment arrived it would take at least...
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    My Bucket List Sound System Is Not What I Expected---It is more of an experience than a sound system!

    My Bucket List Sound System Is Not What I Expected---It is more of an experience than a sound system! This is my first time writing about my system since the end of September when it was finally working, at least making sound, after 58 years of dreaming and two years of planning and assembling...
  13. Mobiusman

    The Two Popes - A Masterpiece of Direction, Cinematography, Acting and Story

    The Two Popes is one of the finest films I have ever seen, if not the best. I melds brilliant cinematography, absolutely superb acting on the parts of Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce, masterful direction by Fernando Meirelles, absolutely jaw dropping cinematography by César Charlone and a...
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    Von Schweikert Ultra 9's Are The Cover of This Month's Absolute Sound

    Congratulations Damon, Leif and Albert because finally the Absolute Sound is giving VSA their due by putting the Ultra 9 on the cover and having what appears to be an extensive featured review. I have not received a printed or digital version yet so I cannot comment on the specifics of the...
  15. Mobiusman

    My Bucket List System

    This year I turned 70 and something started happening even as I anticipated my birthday. In fact, it started happening around September, 2017. I think what started happening was I finally realized that my life is not a dress rehearsal. I had used the adage many times because it is no doubt...
  16. Mobiusman

    Axpona, VSA rooms

    With three systems set up including the monster Ultra 11 Biamped VAC statements, and Statement Line and Phono stage, TechDas Air Force 1 were to die for, with the Ultra 9's set up with the VAC 450 Integrated, MasterBuilt Ultra everything, a TechDas Air Force 3 Premium ,in another room equally to...
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    A Different Lock at Axpona 2018 and a new Personal Reference Audio System.

    I just got back from two days at Axpona 2018. I went there with two missions: 1) expand two new relationships with Damon Von Schweikert and Leif Swanson, and 2) to try to determine my next speaker and possibly new electronics to take me to the next audio another level. While I instinctively...
  18. Mobiusman

    ZYX Optimum Cartridge

    As some of you may know, I have been struggling with my analog, especially getting low frequency feedback when playing vinyl to the point that it is scary, and probably electrically dangerous, not to mention not relaxing. I have struggled with this problem for the past three years-gone through...
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    A Visit To Bobby B's House--for an afternoon of high end listening and life expansion

    For the past three years I have been trying to resolve a phono feedback problem that is more than likely being generated by floor vibrations excited by my two JL F113 subs because when I turn the woofs off it goes away. I am now on my fourth turntable, fourth cartridge, second phono stage...
  20. Mobiusman

    Black Panther Movie-The Best Movie I Have Ever Seen!!!

    Fortunately for me, I saw the movie before I saw the trailer because I would not have gone based on the trailer. I am shocked that the director agreed to the trailer because the trailer was a classic trailer with quick clips and CGI, providing no sense of what the movie is about or how...
  21. Mobiusman

    Aries 3D with Benz Micro Low Freq oscillations in my JL 113's

    I just replaced my VPI Prime with one of the last 30 Aries 3D special series with some other unannounced upgrades. I have a Benz Micro LPS set up by Jay at SoundStage Direct. It sits on a Vibraplane 2214 on top of a dedicated Steve Blinn extra wide three shelf rack, with another identical rack...
  22. Mobiusman

    MIT Experiment- Swapping MA-X, MA-X2, MA-XSHD and Oracle Z Cord Reference

    Since many of you have been so kind with your comments in my direction, I thought I would share with you the results of an experiment I have been conducting for the past 6 months. I have a DMC30SV and DMA 30RS, which allegedly sounds identical to the 400's, connected to Vivid G3's with HD...
  23. Mobiusman

    Is it unwise to buy a state of the art CD player at this time?

    I have Spectral reference electronics at the core of my system and recently ordered their latest SDR 4000SV cd player, but am having some second thoughts because CD's are clearly going to become less important to us audiophiles as streaming advances, although I do have a significant library of...
  24. Mobiusman

    Best Sound For The Money ($28.99) The X Mini Uno Capsule Powered Speaker

    What do you get when you combine a lifelong addiction to audio and the personality of a psychiatrist? MOBIUSMAN, a.k.a Russ! Anyone who has read any of my “new thread” posts during the past several years knows that when I start a new thread, I try to combine life with audio, rather what I am...
  25. Mobiusman

    DMA 260 vs DMA 300RS and the SDR 4000 SL vs the SDR 4000 SV--The SV difference

    Back in February I received my first Spectral SV piece in the form of a DMC 30 SV preamp, driving my DMA 260. It was clearly better than what I had previously, but I was told that in no way would I be able to hear the true benefit until I had an amp with SV technology, namely the 400 RS's or a...
  26. Mobiusman

    Another Serendipity Step – A SUHD Purchase While My System Is Down

    Lately, malfunctioning or broken equipment has triggered purchases and major changes elsewhere in my system, resulting in serendipitous benefits in my system. A little back story before revealing the latest in this interesting, but albeit very expensive cycle. Six months ago I bought a pair...
  27. Mobiusman

    The Best Audio Audition Experience I Have Ever Had & The Best Preamp-Amp Combination

    Saturday I went to buy some very special audio equipment and had my faith renewed that there are still individuals who care and will not give in to the sloppiness that has become the norm, if not baseline, of our current US values. Before you discard this thread as some sort of liberal...
  28. Mobiusman

    It's About The Physics AND Audio Obsession

    It has now been almost three months since my last post when I blew up my Spectral amp when I shorted speaker terminals under my new Vivid G3’s. During the time that I was down or could not do serious listening or because I was breaking in some new component, much has changed. I did what many...
  29. Mobiusman

    Audio Smoke and Sparks Force Truth

    Honesty From Sparks and Silence Six weeks ago I was in audio nirvana. I had received my new piano black Vivid G3’s and was thrilled. I had aspired for the Wilson Alexia’s, but did not want to spend the money and loved my Martin Logan Montis with Shunyata Alpha Digital power cords. I had...
  30. Mobiusman

    Listening Acclimation And The Shunyata Triton V2

    We all experience listening acclimation because it is a basic function of the central nervous system. It is very adaptive for the average individual because it rapidly helps us develop a balance with our sensory environment. Unfortunately, it is the bane of audiophiles because as we search for...

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