Recent content by W9TR

About a year ago we started construction of a 3 car garage with a living space above. I decided to build another theater in the space. ‘First Light’ was last Wednesday. This is a combined 2 channel room and home theater. The 2 channel system is separate from the HT. While they both share L and...

I’ve never seen McIntosh discontinue so many products at one time. Especially now there are no high power tube amps in the lineup with the MC 2301 and MC 3500 on the way out. Even the MC 1502 is a goner and it’s just a kid, what, maybe 5 YO? I wonder if McIntosh is having problems securing...

We have an 83” LG OLED at our lake house. It’s an impressive display and sooo easy to setup and calibrate compared to a projection system.

4K UHD HDR10 looks fantastic on a big projection system!

That’s a true beauty from a bygone era. Love the purple.

What a fun journey it has been! Every decade has brought dramatic change. in the ‘80’s I got a VHS HiFI deck and a 25” Sony Trinitron hooked up to my stereo. A Lexicon CP-1 and a Hafler amp for surround arrived in the late 80’s, as well. along with a Laserdosc player. No more VHS stock outs...

Yep, you are golden with a tested interface. Higher precision, better impedance control, and higher bandwidth means better consistency of timing between the clocks and data. High Speed is now the lowest speed HDMI cable you can buy, apart from questionable sellers on Amazon. DSD 512 and 352...

It’s interesting that audio manufacturers are choosing to use a data bus specifically designed for internal device to device and PWB to PWB communications as an external bus. I2S has no error correction. This immediately raises some challenges that manufacturers have to manage. The I2S bus is...

The Nextzett products will also find good use on my Porsche 911. German products for German cars! The low to no shine is really impressive. There is a challenge finding the correct cleaners and it’s fun when they work. In this case Isopropyl alcohol did the trick cleaning up some adhesive...

Those are beautiful! Are they Bakelite?

I’m almost done with the cosmetic cleanup. A bit more detailing around the sliders, a bit more to tidy up but the old bird is looking pretty good. There are only a few small actual plastic scratches and they are not very deep or noticeable. Most you can only see when the light is at an...

It has already happened. In IEM’s (in Ear Monitors) Chinese competitors, usually with US or EU based marketing are taking over the market at price points that classic players like Westone and Etymotic are choosing not to match. My Soundbrenner Wave IEM’s are a good example. They sound better...

Feanor - I think you are brave man buying this stuff ‘unheard’. I hope you can return it if you do not like it. You’ve got some good stuff to compare it to. My only experience with Topping is a D50 DAC that measured perfectly and sounded terrible. Lots of wonderful reviews from people who...

I’ve made some good progress. I’ve cleaned everything up internally and applied De-Oxit D-100 to all the switches (lots of ‘em!) and replaced the belts. The faders got D-100 follows by Faderlube F-100. The rubber was cleaned with rubber cleaner and is in good shape so I don’t think this deck...

Those look like some real challenges. Are you going to replace the Tolex on the second one or try and restore it?