John Curl's Blowtorch preamplifier part II

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In these photos I see no real acoustic treatments !.
My room has three mattresses across the front wall serving to cause damped/non reflective front wall.
This is the first key to achieving proper image placement and depth imaging.

Dan.

Big and spacious with loads of low end - the room shape if different and also helps.

5 pairs of output devices running at c. 110 mA/pair gives me a bit of class A

Wife will go away for a week. I will rearrange the living room in her absence and have 7 days of musical heaven.

To hell with the ******* neighbors.
 
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I match your phono and raise you a discrete MC stage and some clicks.

(think I'll save the story of two mistresses and one mattress for a rainy day, not exactly sound proof of my mental capacity)

What I don't quite understand is that some appear to have just the single set of gear, without any means of direct comparison. Do they have flashbacks of what it sounded like a month ago ?
 

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I match your phono and raise you a discrete MC stage and some clicks.

(think I'll save the story of two mistresses and one mattress for a rainy day, not exactly sound proof of my mental capacity)

What I don't quite understand is that some appear to have just the single set of gear, without any means of direct comparison. Do they have flashbacks of what it sounded like a month ago ?

$2.00 relays?
 
$2.00 relays?

The same relay model in a 1986 catalogue, German currency ex. 16 percent sales tax. In NL, retail was 50 percent higher.
Inflation corrected to '16, $20-$25 for a single item buy. There's progress for ya !

(my idea of a mattress is an outdoor lounge bed, with Nacsound loudspeakers. My tropical wet dream is to steal a few of Jan's missile cones and build me a pair of Gazonga hanging omnidirectionals)
 

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Uh huh, do tell.

Dan.

If I may gather the tea leaves, methinks he's suggesting (and in my total agreement) that the enjoyment factor of one's system* supercedes one's "status" wrt hi-fi, mid-fi, being in the game, etc. If the neighbor down the street with his $15 ghetto blaster enjoys his rig, who am I to object?

That's why we do this stuff, right?

*(holistic, both in the joy of ownership/construction and its ability to deliver sound to one's ears)
 
I think back fondly of Irma, the woman who changed my life at the laundromat. I had her do my laundry, something I despise doing. But she liked to listen to the radio, and the unit she had going was distorting so outrageously that I speculated that the speaker surround was blown. I asked her about the level and the distortion, and she said she liked it that way. I have since learned that it is not an unusual taste in audio, particularly among some Hispanics.
 
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