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Tweaks for systems, rooms and Do It Yourself (DIY) help. FAQ.

Cogent, concise, eloquent

Just kidding. I guess the essence of your vulgar, nearly incoherent post can be summarized with:

"I tend to look at what type of system said person owns, and then judge whether or not said persons words carry any weight..."

If what someone owns is more important than what a person knows, then let me present my credentials in the form of a list of gear I've owned over the years.

I built Dynaco SS kits
I built Electro Voice Aristocrat corner horns
Sony RtR
Marantz 250M power amp
SAE preamp
Crown D150A power amp
better Sony RtR
GAS pre, power amps
Thorens turntables, handful of different cartridges
Yamaha NS1000M
B&W DM6
Luxman integrated
Revox B77 RtR
Yamaha C4 preamp
Stax electrostatic headphones
APT Holman preamp
Threshold 400A
B&W 802 Mk III with North Creek outboard xovers
Several NAD, Sony, Yamaha CD players
B&W subwoofer
Aragon 8008BB
BAT VK200
CAL Audio Icon MkII
Assemblage DAC 3.1
Bryston BP20
Bryston BP25
Sony SCD9000ES, modded
BAT VK30
Jeff Rowland preamp
BAT VK60 monoblocks
REL Stadium subwoofer
Channel Island monoblocks
ARC D200
Sonic Euphoria balanced TVC
Marantz SA-11S1 with BG output caps
A dozen or more other homemade speakers of various quality and geometry.
Cassette decks, tuners, second and third system preamps, amps, and receivers.
Perhaps a hundred different power cords, IC's, and speaker cables, including dozens I made myself from various materials and geometries.
Too many other audio doodads to remember or list.

Now I've built my own cables, IC's, power cords, subwoofer, speakers, amplifiers, and active crossovers, after auditioning dozens of capacitors, resistors, opamps, connectors, and types of wire, most of which I've reported here. My speakers contain a thousand dollars worth of drivers plus a few hundred for crossover parts, which means they would probably retail for ten grand or more. The amps are the equivalent of or better than any amp I've heard costing up to $3000.

I don't know if owning or making all that qualifies my words to carry any weight or if it's all just "girly shit."

Peace,
Tom E

berate is 8 and benign is 9


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