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  1. JoeESP9

    Tube or Solid State Pre Amp - which did you choose

    Got an ARC SP-9 Mk3. Wanted to vote hybrid. Couldn't so voted tube. Tubes drive my ESL's and SS drives my subs. Rich, that was me with the heads up about JGH. Like your mag.
  2. JoeESP9

    Do You Always Get What You Pay For?

    A$20,000 preamp that doesn't sound as good is exactly what this thread is all about.
  3. JoeESP9

    Baby proofing the Audio life - Any advice?

    It's refreshing the posters here are from the house proof the kid school and not from the kid proof the house school. I've seen more than one thread started on other sites asking how to protect someone's gear from their kids. I've always thought that was the wrong approach. My son like myself...
  4. JoeESP9

    Do You Always Get What You Pay For?

    A $4,000 JC2 mass market? Are you sure you understand the term? Please don't misunderstand me. I'm not casting aspersions on any gear. Nor am I suggesting that anyone pays or paid too much or too little for anything. However, a $4,000 piece of audio gear is by no means mass market. Mass market...
  5. JoeESP9

    What is Our Reference?

    I want my system to deliver the message not interpret it. For 44 years I've been slowly and steadily working to make my system and room do less interpretation. I believe I've been able to achieve a small measure of success. When I come home from a concert at the Kimmel Center and play some music...
  6. JoeESP9

    Looking For The Perfect Listening Chair

    Gregadd: Is that the Queen of Hearts chair or just the Red Queen's chair?
  7. JoeESP9

    What were your first "audiophile" speakers and when?

    My first real speakers were a pair of AR4's I bought while in the service. I kept them until 1976 when I bought a pair of B&O S-70's. I had the B&O's for two months when I heard a pair of Magneplanar MG-1's. I sold the B&O's within a week and bought the Maggies. Had nothing but panels since.
  8. JoeESP9

    Custom Amplifier stands

    If a butcher block will do try the site below. I use hockey pucks under my butcher board amp stands. http://www.buybutcherblock.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=mmb&Category_Code=cuttingBoards
  9. JoeESP9

    Beer Taste

    Tube gear has come a long way since 1977. That's the year I sold my Dynaco PAS-3 for an Audio Research SP-3. It's also one year after buying my first pair of Magneplananrs (MG-1's). I still use tubes to drive my current ESL's. An ARC preamp (SP-9) still serves as my control center.
  10. JoeESP9

    Hello everyone.

    I've been lurking like many others do. I happened to see a comment Myles B. Astor posted in one of the cable threads in reference to Ethan Winer. That was reason enough to make me sign up. My sentiments exactly Sir.

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