Recent content by TimF

The Prince Consort - Early in the Morning. Ned Rorem.

Desirable cd players but all the more desirable if you also have the original box and user manuals. It is soooooo nice to have the original box. We should do a comparison of the boxes; some boxes are better than others.

When gasoline auto engines and gasoline lawn mowers are penalized to the point they are rarely actually operated at the same time electricity hungry tubes will be rarely operated just like those old timey steam operated farm tractors. Similarly, long ago people stopped using sea galleys...

I don't need no stinkin' subs. Too much bass is like too much garlic which covers the delicate flavors.

chicken skin leather.

Going back to the 1970's and 1980's I bet you would find that most competently made calculators, remarkably, gave the same or highly similar results.

I recently bought a pair of Neumann KH150 active speakers. They are very fine at imaging and sound stage and consistently so.

Possibly the USA recent tariffs on Chinese products complicated the planned introduction of this product. Who would want to introduce a splendid new product and have sales to the USA go nutsy. President dickhead changes his position daily. This product interests me.

A couple absolute essentials of the modern age are heat shrink tubing and lycra/spandex.

I just purchased and received a pair of Neumann KH 150 speakers. My normal speakers are Revel Performa F208 which are fairly large. In my initial listening to the Neumann speakers I must say they are among the best speakers I have heard for soundstage and localization of instruments. For me...

this tread is an exercise in practiced stupidity. It is like talking on and on about the various commercial additives you can add to your fuel in a gasoline auto.

oh gawd! They will buy it if it shows up on the shelves.

the remote seems designed for my level of expertise.

It is interesting that tube gear had a revival and that equipment from Conrad Johnson, Sonic Frontiers, Jolida, and so forth were popular. It was a marketing success kind of like reviving smoking cigarettes and cigars. Or for that matter, expensive wrist watches. When I now go into Barnes and...

For me there is no fun in buying now. I enjoyed buying and trying Chinese audio equipment that is priced such that I can afford to take a risk on whether it suits my needs, and similarly so for Chinese and Japanese watches. I know that the gaming and aggressive tactics of the current USA...