I think my VAS modified 103 is inferior to a stock 103. They took the charm out of it. It honestly kinda sucks. Whereas the sock 103 has character. The VAS one … it’s like they just exacerbated any shortcoming.
Okay, who's in Burlington VT? HiFi Lounge to check out...
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That's super cool. See that would be what I like about the 103 without what I don't like. What kind of compliance does that have?
We have a number of places in Chicago with R2R. I think it started with a group of places common to one set of owners then grew from there.
The only "sonic lounge" of sorts that I've been to here, though, is the wine bar "Good Funk". The restaurant developer gave one of their bartender/managers free range to just make a little place attached to one of their larger restaurants and because he was a big vinyl fan, he made it a sort of record-listening bar that specializes in natural/ 'new' wines (that inherently have a funky taste to them).
Music and bars seems to be a thing in chicago and has been that way going back at least a decade.
using 50s isn't terribly hipster. 300Bs? Heck, yeah... but not fiddys. 😎
EDIT: Hmm... maybe we should plan a road trip up there -- and bring 'em a coupla decent Altecs to replace those surly K-horns?
EDIT: Hmm... maybe we should plan a road trip up there -- and bring 'em a coupla decent Altecs to replace those surly K-horns?
What do you mean a trip “up there”? That trip would definitely be “down there”.
Nope, definitely over there.
Hipsters, tripsters, real cool chicks, sir
Everyone's doin' that rag...
Everyone's doin' that rag...
Or way, way over and a bit south.
slagle and his SE50 amp at the ny noise '99
2 x SE50 I saw and heard in Manila recently
Resurgence of interest in the type 50 DHT?🤔 Unfortunately they're not easy to find.😔
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Long ago and far away, I had a high school physics teacher that tried to get us students to stop referring to points on a map as “up north” or “down south”. He’d tell us “if you’re going up, you’re headed to space; if you’re going down you’re on a journey to the center of the earth”. He was unsuccessful.
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I think this stuff is fascinating but it’s also interesting to me in that it really is a completely different hobby than what I’m involved in.slagle and his SE50 amp at the ny noise '99
2 x SE50 I saw and heard in Manila recently
Resurgence of interest in the type 50 DHT?🤔 Unfortunately they're not easy to find.😔
Fortunately, there is room in multiple tribes.
@je2a3 @Redboy and @Topper (as well as J-Rob and Gary Kaufman, and some other, mostly thermionic, types) have influenced me in mammoth ways (and I say that as homage, not as complaint!).
One might remember that I (who was Polks and Yamaha for decades) came back to this hobby in the late 1990s trying to make a pair of Klipsch Cornwalls listenable.
What a long, strange trip.
