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Bookers is getting easier to get of late. I have 5 variants from the past year-ish. Caskers.com has Eagle Rare for $100, at least for me in MN. More than I'm wiling to spend. Haven't seen it in the wild around here for years and years. I remember the days of $40 Bookers. Blantons for...

Big Bookers fan, and of the Jim Beam portfolio overall. I could live with just Knob Creek and be totally happy. The best Bookers lately is Kentucky Tea Batch, but this one is still very solid. Jeez, is this post really the first one in this thread this YEAR?? Challenge accepted.

Could you use the Gain Cell as a standalone DAC? Or is that getting sold to fund a potential Freya purchase?

So far so good. It replaced an Aric Audio tube preamp, which was awesome, but it didn't have a remote. Aric's stuff is all point to point wired and tube rectified, so that preamp brought more tubey space depth and some euphonics to the mix than the Freya does. The Freya brings me a remote...

So here's my 2nd system down in my corner of the basement. Details in signature, except for the Nakamichi tape deck. Everything was purchased used. The Freya+ is the new addition. The room was a cinder block walled, concrete floor echo chamber. I added heavy curtains, rugs, a couple soft...

I totally forgot AAL was him as well! I've listened to that a fair bit. I like the sorta middle ground that Darkside exists within the most.

I gotta check this out. I love Darkside, but know nothing about his solo stuff. This album a good place to start? EDIT - listening to it now. The recording sounds amazing thru my Bluesound node. Can see how a great pressing would sound incredible. It's massively wide.

Thanks! $6k? Thassa spicy meatball! Could do a Technics 1200G and Hana Umami Blue for about the same

What TT is that? Its not the precision, ultra or studiodeck, what with that tapered platter and knobbies.

Nice piece for a 2nd sytem some day. I know zero about Decwares phono - will have to check that out. I'm very curious about their new 300B amp, now that I have speakers that would pair really well. Checked the waitlist though - 2 years. Guess that would give me time to save up?

Allnic phono?

Ha, yeah, good point. I've looked at them so many times I forget everyone else is not as familiar. @kvetcha is right. Devore O/93. 93db@1 watt eff. Claimed freq response of 30hz - 31khz

Got some new speakers this week. EDIT - Devore O/93 Still have some breaking in to do, but they're everything I've wanted. Tried Wharfedale, Zu and Harbeth. Each had good traits, but ultimately something was lacking or unenjoyable about them. These do the imaging I like, and completely...

My AOTY

100% agreed. If someone could hypnotize you, and afterwards you believed your system sounded better than anything you've ever heard before, so what? ALL of the sound is processed in your brain, anyways. It's about the experience (how you define that is up to you) and if personal bias or wish...

I had the Harbeth SHL5Plus XDs for some time (a year?) in different systems and rooms, and they definitely benefit from more juice. I flipped between 18w/ch Class A (worked better than expected), 75w class A/B (adequate if necessary), and 350w/ch Class D (more than enough). Bass punch and...

Get one used. I understand this is totally useless in regards to your store credit predicament, but you should still get one. This and that VPI Classic would be unnghhhhh

Ditto.

@HiFi Guy this must tempt you a little... https://tmraudio.com/vinyl/phono-preamps/manley-laboratories-steelhead-stereo-tube-mm-mc-phono-preamplifier/

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