Augsburger

You may have been lucky. My experience was that the shipper had to proove the package was packed appropriately, which is impossible. You are lucky it wasn't FedEx because in my case FedEx wanted me to ship two 90 pound damaged speakers to them at my cost, in the original damaged boxes for FedEx to "evaluate" whether the fault was with FedEx or the shipper.

Good luck with the UPS claim. My experience is that both UPS and FedEx ALWAYS claim it is faulty packing not their crappy handling that caused the damage. Sheesh! Hope things eventually work out.

Yes, sounds better than "Ahhh nightmares". GRE and GMAT all in six months because I couldn't make up my mind. Ultimately I made the right choice though the route was circuitous at best.

Ahhhhhh, memories.

Ouch! Strike two. I bought one of those tube buffers based upon the reco from a High End audio retailer close buy, needless to say I found no improvement, perhaps a degrading of the sound I like. But that was years ago and hopefully THAT won't be repeated again either. I seem to be the poster child for audio fails but I think I am recovered.

If i hadn't stumbled upon the Trafomatic, I would have ordered a B22. I keep a running total of all media equipment reviews and the ratio issomething like 97% positive reviews on equipment, speakers, amps, preamps and cdps. that includes the infamous Sony PS1.

Very cute Tyrion, looks like ours. Ours has a beer belly though so I guess we need to walk him a little more often.

Yes, a hard and expensive lesson learned, hopefully not to be repeated. The problem with most mods is that generally the reviews come from either shills for the modder or the audio mags and websites. The audio industry reviews not surprisingly are always glowing praise. So with new products, there has to be an early adoptor who takes a big risk on an unknown hoping to discover the deal of the decade. I think I got luck with my transformer coupled Trafomatic and lost big time with my modded Dac Ah. I can accept the internal unprofessional fit and finish issues if the sound is exceptional. Oh, any listening impressions yet?

Very good idea, especially with modded gear. I had a modded DAC in my system for one year before I finally got the guts to open it up to see if I could find the cause for the lousy sound. What a surprise, expensive caps and mods paid for were not done and the mods that were done looked like a cross eyed monkey performed them. Unfortunately this was not a case of looks bad sounds sweet. Oh, and a big congrats!

Happy birthday guys! Enjoy your day and go out and buy something cool.

Very, very nice! Burp** The Viogner was the late harvest Viogner so that with the fact of the Botrytis mold made this an excellent chilled dessert wine. As good as any Muscat, Gewirstraminer or Austrian Reisling. Yummy. You need to check this wine out, the summer is an ideal time for sipping.

Are your walls bare? With the wood floor and bare walls you might notice some wierdreflections and bass behavior. Speaker spikes with metal pucks underneath may help decouple the wood floors from the speakers. Or you could use pieces of granite.

Dinner and a bottle of Alban Grenache, and Ojai Viognier.

Yah team Audio Alchemy!

Five walls of paint, one cabinet painted and three doors painted. If I got music out of the deal it would have been much more worth the dough.

Take a lot of deodorant and many changes of clothes. Orlando in July is like 98% humidity and a fair amount of mesquitos. Enjoy wishing you a safe journey.

A luch time detour. XRCD of Chet Atkins in Hollywood.............Nice high beams. I will buy any CD with Greensleves and Jitterbug Waltz on it.

You need to add a bullet for the white space---sharks.

The home repair/hardware shop will be your second home. Nails, glue, screws and little plumbing thingys will mean regular trips to the store. Try to stay away from the "upgrades" department those will kill ya. I have upgraded light swithces, faucets, faucet handles, outside faucets and handles, garden hoses silly stuff you never knew existed but now have to have.

It depends on how oxidized your connectors are. I tried it on some mildly oxidized rcas and noticed no difference. With highly oxidized RCAs maybe maybe not I tend not to let my connectors get that far. On speaker spades I noticed no difference but I tighten the heck out of the jacks so maybe that nullified the damage caused by the oxidation. Deoxit does make the connections look good though.

Damn Chris, do you have any organs left to sell after all that?

Tyll, will there be a team hawaiian shirt this time? My wife just bought me a new one I will save for your meet.

Thanks all. I feel a lot of love in this forum..... the Pinot helps too.

X2. Killing time waiting for my meeting with J.P. Morgan.