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    Modern/boutique mono tube integrated amps?

    nice! A build like that is over my head but if I came across something like that I’d be into it.
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    Modern/boutique mono tube integrated amps?

    that is pretty what I was looking for but yes, overkill for my wallet. Appreciate the suggestions. I thought maybe I just wasn’t looking very well but no, I’m just looking for something that is anachronistic so I can safely stick with the old ones I like. I am toying with 3 different mono...
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    Modern/boutique mono tube integrated amps?

    that is usually the kind of thing I go for, totally. I was thinking there had to be someone out there who had made something like this more recently.
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    Modern/boutique mono tube integrated amps?

    Either that or an early Marantz combo is what I was thinking if I couldn’t find a modern all in one solution. It seems implausible that no one has made one in 60+ years. Since there is one speaker I just like the idea of a single amp component. In your opinion, if you have one, what was the...
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    Modern/boutique mono tube integrated amps?

    I’ve been looking to upgrade/replace/try something different from the vintage integrated tube amps I use in my mono systems. I have a HK C-300 “trend” for 78s and a Raymer 3102 (obscure one) for LPs and 45s. there are lots of other vintage mono integrateds out there but I don’t see any recent...
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    C26 input selector switch same as MX112?

    Perhaps you know...I have a bad input selector switch on a C26. Would the input selector switch from a MX112 work?
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    Wyred4Sound Sonos Port upgrade to DAC w/ MQA?

    I have been in touch with them over the last few months asking if and when they were going to offer a Port. I emailed them this morning about this topic, which you're right, probably is the easiest way to get this resolved. Their own site says "This upgrade entirely bypasses the AKM audio...
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    Wyred4Sound Sonos Port upgrade to DAC w/ MQA?

    It doesn’t. I’m hoping if I use it with a DAC that does, that it would work. I think it will.
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    Wyred4Sound Sonos Port upgrade to DAC w/ MQA?

    (I don't know if this should be posted in Digital Sources or DACs) For the last couple months I was looking forward to upgrading from a Sonos Connect to a new Port. 1) I really like the Sonos app 2) I want to give my Connect to a friend who would never buy one to try out streaming for himself...
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    cd player vs. blue-ray player

    Bingo. That’s exactly what I’m looking for. In an extremely thin design like the oppo dv-981hd
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    Cornwalls SCORED

    This post is 3 years old but hey, since you brought it up, I will have an update on this very soon. All the Crites upgrades and cabs all newly wrapped in walnut veneer in the next 3 weeks.
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    Installing a subpanel for the stereos

    I'm remodeling right now and have a chance to set up the electrical to flatter my stereo systems. I would otherwise probably not do this, but it is sort of the perfect opportunity so I'm going for it. My contractor has done this kind of thing for other folks in the past and didn't balk too...
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    Restoration in SF Bay Area

    Great! As does the 250. Well worth the wait. You’re fast, I was going to write you today :) I’m running 2 of them in mono with JBL L100 centuries. Certainly a better garage system than I ever expected to have out here.
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    Restoration in SF Bay Area

    I just picked up my C26 from Champlifier in Alameda yesterday, Sheldon always does a great job. World of Sound in Mill Valley do a lot of McIntosh service work.
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    My personal thoughts on my new concept 16.5

    New Large Advents and a Polk sub. The Advents have been recapped, refinished and new grill cloth, they look and sound beautiful but I know they could be improved on. My budget is shot until I do some other things around the house but in a few months I’ll be in the hunt for some JBLs
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    My personal thoughts on my new concept 16.5

    Huge fan. I tried to take pics of my 16.5, 11.0 and 6.5 together but they didn’t come out great I recently had the 16.5 given the full treatment by Jeff at “Pacific Stereo” in SoCal, I concur completely with the OP. Running a TD-147 just back from Vinyl Nirvana w/ Grace F9e and between those...
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    Elusivity

    For a long time, I couldn’t find Albert Ayler “in Greenwich Village” or the Prisoners “the Last Four Fathers”. 10 years of looking at swaps and stores for the Albert Ayler, which I didn’t know the title of and just remembered what the cover looked like. One day in like 2005 I saw it on the...
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    McIntosh 4100

    That list sounds interesting.
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    Lincoln bringing a new high-performance sedan to market....

    I have a 2018 MKZ hybrid and really like it. If the Zephyr is available when the lease is up next year I’m on that.
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    I've Had It!!!

    Here's a couple recently brought back to life by 95 year old John Wentzel at Aladdin Radio Repair in San Francisco. He turned each one around in less than a week for less than $100 (the Silvertone was less than $25). It was an honor to meet him and spend a few minutes in his shop. His son Jim...
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    HK tube gear valuation

    are you currently running these in a mono system? I bought a pair similar to this in a Bartertown listing a few weeks ago and in the original post (which has since been deleted) you indicated you thought these are holy grail-ish gear. I love them but after I read this I was curious if you are...
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    Using a receiver with jumpers as a preamp.

    Ha! AK search is the best. I love reading threads from 2009 instead of starting a new one but it is even better when something from a few weeks ago comes up to answer a question. I have never used one of my Concept receivers as a preamp but I just got this McIntosh 250 and since the C26 is...
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    Would you Choose Jbl L100 Pioneer, Hpm100 or Top Advents?

    Until last week I had all 3. I use the L100 in the garage with a Concept 6.5, the New Large Advents in my son’s room with a Hk 330a (but I’ve used them with the Concept 6.5 in the past). I tried the 200 watt HPM-100 with a Concept 11.0 and Concept 16.5 and to be honest they only ever sounded...
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    Quad content

    Interesting, thank you guys.
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