Dont give up early when you try. Reward is there for thouse who have patient. An hour ago I was listening and just shook my head how this cable turning into butterfly.
"they sound and behave the same in any system..."
Sorry, not Peter on the Denon IC; you, Tango. I can't keep track of everyone here! Tango, I have some further thoughts on the Denon IC, if you are interested.
i'm excited to hear how the Primary Control FCL arm might enter that Acoustical System's level. not sure it will.......
Hi Mike L. I've been watching your posts for a couple of months now,
E. and Mike. I was in an awful mood last night. This all sounds rude. Please accept my apologies....Mark
hi Mark,
doubt my budget can stretch to that arm, i will have to just sit back and enjoy Airbearing's and Mik's feedback. just hope my FCL investigations get into that neighborhood. tone arms are an interesting subject. there are strong opinions about it.
glad to hear, it's my affliction.
some love the Shun Mook, i've gone down other roads; Taiko Tana, Taiko Daiza, Equi=tech, Tripoint, Entreq, and now RevOpods and Nordost QRT.
Hi Mike. Power conditioning, for me, has always been problematic; I never quite find anything I really like. Did the Bybee stuff, Sig and Pro, then did Audio Magic,...don't really like it that much either, but there it sits all these years later. Since last May, I have a new home and, thank God, it has a super low electrical noise floor, so I'm just lucky there (my last 3 homes were horrific). There always seems to be a subtle denuding of harmonic richness, etc. to these conditioners. But, of course, I haven't tried the new ones. Your Nordost QRT caught my eye...here's a story I forgot...30+ yrs ago, I'm 28 or so, and did a stint at TAS. I did the first PC review there and was always looking for stuff to drive people crazy. A nice guy, Bill Stierhout, got a hold of me, or I ran into him somewhere, can't recall, and gave me the next crazy box. I took it home and, jeez, it worked. Very subtle but there (I was running 50W SETs all NOS tubes on Quad 63s at the time, so I could hear pretty deep into the noise floor back then). So, I reviewed the Electraclear box but then, last minute, even after the galleys, mercurial Harry pulls the review. I never asked why, really didn't care, I was about to quit anyway, but then ended up at dinner with Harry in Vegas. He asks me to sit next to him and sheepishly says he's sorry to have pulled the review. He's surprised that I could care less, but then says the reason is because he popped the box open and there was nothing inside! I said, whatever, pass the salt. That review is still in a box somewhere in my basement, or lost, and then I see some years back Nordost, of all people, have grabbed the tech from Bill and stuck it in a new box! I actually think Bill's at it again, the exclusivity clause with Nordost must have tolled....a place callled ADD-Powr. You might want to check it out...I still have a couple Symphony Pros hidden about, one even on my Pioneer Kuro plasma TV...makes a subtle, impossible-to-find-elsewhere, difference, in a good way. Oddlly, though, one only really notices the difference - like a subtle tension is released from the system - until you take it out. A few days later you're just not as interested in your rig as before; put it back in, wait a bit, and back comes the...feeling, like those best late at night listening sessions. Easy to see on my TV, though. Now I'll go back to my denying-that-any-empty-box-can-do-anything mode; it seems to work best at cocktail parties...hi Mark,
doubt my budget can stretch to that arm, i will have to just sit back and enjoy Airbearing's and Mik's feedback. just hope my FCL investigations get into that neighborhood. tone arms are an interesting subject. there are strong opinions about it.
glad to hear, it's my affliction.
some love the Shun Mook, i've gone down other roads; Taiko Tana, Taiko Daiza, Equi=tech, Tripoint, Entreq, and now RevOpods and Nordost QRT.
unlike ddk, many of us have a hard time leaving well enough alone.
OK, here's another one of my silly audionut stories...In the middle of the pandemic, a non-audio guy puts up a slew of M'Pingp discs on audiogon for a song and I grab them. Then my audio-dog mind starts thinking: where there's that, there might be more, right? So, II call him and, sure enough, he's sitting on 2 sets of UDRs and 3 sets of GDRs, selling for another non-audio friend who's estranged dad just died and had a dormant 25yr+ collection of old audio stuff collecting dust. He takes $2500 for all of it on the spot. I held on to the GDRs for a few months on principal, but I have other hobbies too, so sold the GDRs to a nice, advanced enthusiast in Indonesia for $6800, net cash, had the box picked up off my front door. What can I say, I was in a simplifying mode....and, frankly, they'd probably still be sitting in a box waiting...plus I still have my UDRs and SM clamp (early one; black as oil)....but, but...WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND EVER SELLS EARLY GDRs?!
E. Just looked at your website. That's the coolest thing I've ever seen. The big Wavacs are drool-inducing. Last year sold my Wavac 805-based monos when I sold the LM field coil 755 speakers...still miss them both. I use an Eames chair too...I wish you lived down the block so I could bribe you into coming over and tuning my TT...
when it comes to hifi voodoo, there is no "explaining"....there is only listening, then using if you like it. then a month later, pull it out and listen, then back in, and listen, and THEN see if you still like it. all along step back and see if it serves the music, or just the sound.
