Ohhhh... Martin Denny! I listened to "Quiet Village" many times as a kid. My mom and dad had a wall-mount Sylvania AM-FM-Phono system with a swing-down record changer. We listened to music every night at bed-time... probably the reason that I'm so into music today. When I was half as old as I...

Yeah Tom I know that there is a place and a time for all gear if you truly love music. Well, maybe not ALL gear, there's that cardboard schitt that Bill is hawking, along with his $64 PvW. I am well acquainted with the JBL Charge series, esp. the larger versions, and they sound great in many...

MJ3 is an amazing preamplifier into my stereo OG Aegir driving loudspeakers, so... no. You are not crazy.

Not sure that I've ever heard optical S/PDIF (Toslink) sound better than coax in any situation. YMMV of course.

+100.

Dude... let me tell you... I tried. Their previous music system was an iPad sending free Spotify to a JBL Bluetooth speaker, so... massive upgrade. The system is downstairs in their family room, and they generally do the L.I.A.R. thing on the mid-level of the house, so it essentially a mono...

That's the guy! He's awesome, and he and my sister are awesome together. I am very happy for them both!

It also makes a very dangerous Old Fashioned... don't try to drink two of them. Ask me how I know.

Believe it or not, my brother-in-law Mark (who lives in Valparaiso) is driving two pair of Bose 301 Series IIs, stacked, with a pair of OG Vidar monoblocks and a OG Freya w/LISST. They sound remarkably good. I know, I wouldn't have believed it either, if I hadn't heard them...

K has dragged me through introduced me to the Gilmore Girls twice. All 7 seasons and 153 episodes, twice. Actually, I quite enjoyed it. Have you gotten to the spot where Lane goes to the new music store and sees the drum kit of her dreams? You will recognize the proprietor of said store.

Nugget Markets have their stuff, even closer to me. I have UPS and FedEx accounts. :)

Ahhh, the smell of moldy cardboard... kinda like BCowen's stash, after a spring thunderstorm.

I am a big fan of Art Noxon's research and writings. I read his treatise on room treatments a little differently; the room reverberation time (RT60), if not managed, would allow sounds to propagate - a.k.a. echo - long enough to mask lower volume tones and transients. Noise, echo - one thing...

...yes it was. And I remember that Todd used to cram 25+ minutes of music on an LP side in the Utopia days. Because of this, the low-end was limited to ~50 Hz. Still loved his music. Something / Anything? (1972) is still one of my favorite all-time albums, IMHO. It was spread across four LP...

Tom, just reading your words here (and seeing your work and the beautiful things that you've made for others) are enough for me. I would be more than glad to make the extreme sacrifice ( :slight_smile::smiley::stuck_out_tongue: ) of driving out to Point Reyes for you (when I get back home from...

Hear, hear brother. Yggy bends the DAC price-performance curve like a black hole bends space-time. Next to Tyr, best deal EVER in hi-fi. You can just stream to your heart's content, as I do on Qobuz. When I find something I really like, I buy the LP or the CD. Massive access to millions of...

I was going to say that Cowgirl is 30 minutes from my house, but... if you have an alternate supplier, I'll bow out... <g>

2 toob questions: What are the closest equivalents for the 6SN7? What are the best performing 6SN7s / equivalents that don't cost an arm and a leg? Thanks in advance, Noob

You forgot the Absinthe!!!

AES/EBU to Yggy OG, using a SilverSonic DH-110 cable. A bit darker presentation than USB, but potentially well suited to my speakers... we'll "see" (hear), with continued listening. Just need to get the time, which is at a premium these last few weeks. I wish that I didn't have to work to afford...

I was using Urd USB out to Yggy, but after re-arranging things, I ended up with the streamer's USB output -> Urd DDC Port 1 and Urd's AES/EBU out to Yggy... And that sounds really good in my system. I wanted the change to bake into my brain a bit before I change the AES connection (between Urd...

I am assuming that it would probably need to dwarf his desk, Tom, and you'd have to ship it on a flatbed...

Yeah, that's the next experiment. First, I wanted to see if the Aries sounded better simply passing through Urd as DDC. Totally non-scientific, but it does IMHO. <g>

Yeah but wearing is one thing; re-cutting another. <g>

Musings on the Original (`73) Tubular Bells, Pt. I via Qobuz, after a cable change I have been running Urd via Unison USB to Yggy, and my Aries streamer via AES3 to Yggy. I've done this with the MiB and OG A2 DACs, both Unison-capable, most recently the OG which is now in-circuit downstairs...