Recent content by Rui

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    Your Song/Track of the Day

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-4_qOkOCbo Have not listened to Bob for years, now i restart from the early days, even more amazing, maybe the age makes one see it with another view in general, maybe nostalgia
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    Hi there

    hello, and welcome to the forum ,if you have questions do ask? I´m Rui and i´m from Portugal, i know Spain very well from South to the North Saludos!
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    Let's have a chuckle but please don't overwork the moderator!

    the Mcintosh MAH200, looks very good but too expensive for the purpose , headphones will sound even better but price wise above a respectful price
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    Let's have a chuckle but please don't overwork the moderator!

    i saw a couple of fuses from hi-fi tuning ,now i see Vin Diesel, this headphones matter it´s hard to get what one finds best as there are so many, that one buys a new set of headphones and in the next week someone shows you others with a somehow improved sound, i just don´t want to feel...
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    Feeling like a change

    i have not anything to do with the choice of turntables, i can only say that i bought three new turntables in the 80´s and one in the 90´s , all were good but none works today ,i already bought a new one recently , but the 70´s ones sound like top quality and never needed repairs ,only done the...
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    Feeling like a change

    In 1980 NAD had a turntable told to be a poor building construction(what would they say if they could see the new things being sold) but acurate in sound as in 86 there was another model with a very out of the ordinary arm, but always refered as good in output sound both were much better than...
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    Feeling like a change

    it seems a decrease in quality and a big one, from ok to very cheap quality and i do like NAD as a brand since the 70´s, but this is very ...cheap?don´t even know how to describe it, less everything About not a turntable brand, i think i remenber them having good turntables but might be from a...
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    Calling all Technics SL1500C owners - Cue lever

    it happened in the past, like the 77 models were more soft dropping the needle than the improved 78/ 79 ones, but no problem in both also i never used it , i´m used to put the needle on the record in the place i want to hear, better than those free falling systems, this refering to technics...
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    Calling all Technics SL1500C owners - Cue lever

    youtube videos in general are far from reality
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    The DAC scam

    better , in my taste also before vinegar, by itself ,only i stopped drinking more than 15 years ago, don´t know if i´ll keep abstemic, only at the time made sense, the reason why i returned to my favorite matter ,music and all that makes us listen to it at home.
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    The DAC scam

    Interesting!
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    Your Song/Track of the Day

    i started to listen to it after i saw it here and i have to say that surprised me, in my playlists now, have a lot to hear as this is the last album but there are other two and ep´s or singles, on spotify
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    Japanese Imports

    Was a great car, i still remenber the first that arrived to toyota all white ,i loved the car but had bought a Honda Prelude with two seats only and 2.2Vtec engine, for 1/3 of the price, the reason why i bought my first md deck as it came with a good system from sony , md player and a box of 10...
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    Japanese Imports

    Power transformers ,i´m not aware of what is sold today but have 3 and since the 70´s , they work perfect ,one was built by a old friend and very heavy, about noise , never heard of a transformer that made a single noise or affected any components as i have some that my father bought in japan...
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    Japanese Imports

    No, i have components bought in japan and power transformers used to be good, have them working since 1974 with higher sound quality, never had a problem with power transformers and one was built by a friend, really heavy