Recent content by Phineas Newborn Jr.

Interesting stuff, thank you. At first I didn't know what to listen for, once I reached a certain level.

There are many-many thousands of current Ford automobiles sold in Germany and all over Europe. Ford is a major brand name there, and have been for decades.

Been married for over twenty years. Wife doesn't get involved with maintaining my stereo and I don't touch her dozens of plants, unless either of us asks another to help move things. Coincidentally, I, too, have Magnepan 3.6/R. I'm sure you'll keep them going again!

That’s a very good example. I remember also being unhappy with being critiqued in a photography class, but afterwards I felt that critique I received from my classmates was essential to my progress, even the weak, unsubstantiated kind of critique. I read a story that a very old Giambologna...

Well put! To illustrate a similar type: we play pickup soccer on our town’s school field, and have been for years. Yesterday a man approached and introduced himself as a president of some lacrosse association that, according to him had a contract with the town to use the field, that we shouldn’t...

Wait, the owner of Tekton is THE Eric Alexander, world-famous tenor saxophonist? When I first watched Erin on YouTube this morning, I thought it was funny that the Tekton proprietor’s name sounded the same as Eric Alexander’s, whom I’ve heard many-many times in various clubs in New York in the...

Does anyone beside me remember this one? AH! Njoe Tjoeb 4000 CD player https://www.stereophile.com/cdplayers/1103tjoeb/index.html

I don’t generally buy new audiophile lp reissues; nothing against them, I just don’t feel the visceral attraction, especially towards the 45 rpm craze. I do have a few of those gatefold Blue Note pressings. They are beautifully-produced. Oh yes, one PS: I never understood why anyone would pay...

https://hagerman-audio-labs.myshopify.com/products/frycorder2-power-cord-burn-in-generator And this one - https://hagerman-audio-labs.myshopify.com/collections/break-in-devices/products/frybaby2-compact-burn-in-generator Is he just catering to psychopaths , or does he really believe such...

I'll have one of the kids do it. Now that'll teach them!

Were you playing this, by chance?

Do you have photos of the unit? Where are you located?

I hear you [no pun intended]. I will use the voltmeter, never thought of it, I just used the SPL meter from the RatShack and my iPhone.

Good question. Yes, my preamp has the Input Trim function, where I can match volume output of almost every source to the tuner output. I do have to calibrate the output volumes of every source by ear for each value to be memorized by the preamp, but I do get pretty close.

I don't know if it's what you'd call noise, it's just that they sound as different as two different sets of speakers. The new $100 offering has a better overall presentation of music, it's just better in every way you can conjure up.