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Well I got the cat to help, but after awhile he forgot the part where he was not supposed to tell me which one he was using. He was getting tired.
Or probably just a layer of cat fur in da mix, who knows 
This may cause some mocking to come my way: I just mentioned a few years ago I Managed a High End Home Audio Store and was ruthlessly attacked here even Andy shared his disdain for that IndustryWell I got the cat to help, but after awhile he forgot the part where he was not supposed to tell me which one he was using. He was getting tired.
I guess I just think I am hearing a difference. It seems with the 18V, the harmonic aspect comes in a little higher on the gain knob vs 9V. It could also be a twitch of the hand when moving those loose pots that I didn’t dampen with those O rings
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“Don’t forget your cable risers”This may cause some mocking to come my way: I just mentioned a few years ago I Managed a High End Home Audio Store and was ruthlessly attacked here even Andy shared his disdain for that Industry
which I know was justified in general but now at 71 what the hell
I always loved Music and Gear that played it and was always a 'Serious' listener so to speak not just hearing
before working at store
Just one story:
I was setting up our main Showroom equipment used
was $5000 Linn Turntable/Arm with $800 Linn cartridge
$20,000 Linn CD player machined from solid block of Aluminum at Rolls Royce Factoty
$10,000 each Mark Levinson Preamp and Amp
17,000 a pair Revel Speakers
$10,000 pair of Revel Subwoofers
It took me 8 hours to set up moving speakers and subs a millimeter at a time and trying different audio and speaker cables until I heard the Sound I wanted using all types of music from basic LP's, Direct to disc LP's, basic CD's and Mobile Fidelty ones
The cost of cables was similar to cost of Sadowsky NYC now and this was early 90's
I wasn't at Cult level but fully immersed in High End community
We had a few well to do customer's from Northern Virginia/DC that would buy a system from me then fly me out to their Area and back pay me $100 an hour from time I left my house to when I got home
to set up system in their Home
My personal home system was much more modest in dollar and cents maybe 7K retail all Linn equipment and enjoyed as much if not more than system above
The point yes I understand your 9v vs 18v dilemma
Yes I had tried Cable risers at home
Yes I had tried Cable risers at home
but even though I wanted to hear a difference I didn't
The Theory was Music was vibrations so any added vibration was distortion (simple version)
I adhered to that for turntable and speakers but I had started my 12 step program earlier after left Store and Andy has been very helpful in my recovery recently
As to super expensive cables/risers
Power cords and other such High End Voodo I carried at store mainly because quite a few Customers wanted them
I talked to Store owner (at Vegas CES) in what was called Silicone Valley said 21 year old kids bought 100K+ systems loaded with Vodoo stuff routinely
And power cables made from unobtanium, and a green felt tip pen to "treat" the edges of CDs, and...
My short foray into Hi-Fi provided some genuine listening pleasures. That said, I can recall bopping around happily to ABBA on a portable AM radio. Music is weird that way.Yes I had tried Cable risers at home
but even though I wanted to hear a difference I didn't
The Theory was Music was vibrations so any added vibration was distortion (simple version)
I adhered to that for turntable and speakers but I had started my 12 step program earlier after left Store and Andy has been very helpful in my recovery recently
As to super expensive cables/risers
Power cords and other such High End Voodo I carried at store mainly because quite a few Customers wanted them
I talked to Store owner (at Vegas CES) in what was called Silicone Valley said 21 year old kids bought 100K+ systems loaded with Vodoo stuff routinely
My Hi-Fi experiences, back in the seventies, included building a Hafler DH200 MOSFET power amp from a kit and connecting two additional speakers as a quasi-rear-surround-channel passing only the difference signal aka Hafler surround. When CDs came along and people started talking more about dithering rates and other nonsense instead of music, I started to lose interest. At that point I had a collection of several thousand LPs. Now that we're retired and travel full time, my dreams of a dedicated music room may have to wait until I'm in my eighties. Who knows, by then perhaps one of our grandchildren will want my collection of LPs, music gear, musical instruments, amps, and so forth.This may cause some mocking to come my way: I just mentioned a few years ago I Managed a High End Home Audio Store and was ruthlessly attacked here even Andy shared his disdain for that Industry
which I know was justified in general but now at 71 what the hell
I always loved Music and Gear that played it and was always a 'Serious' listener so to speak not just hearing
before working at store
Just one story:
I was setting up our main Showroom equipment used
was $5000 Linn Turntable/Arm with $800 Linn cartridge
$20,000 Linn CD player machined from solid block of Aluminum at Rolls Royce Factoty
$10,000 each Mark Levinson Preamp and Amp
17,000 a pair Revel Speakers
$10,000 pair of Revel Subwoofers
It took me 8 hours to set up moving speakers and subs a millimeter at a time and trying different audio and speaker cables until I heard the Sound I wanted using all types of music from basic LP's, Direct to disc LP's, basic CD's and Mobile Fidelty ones
The cost of cables was similar to cost of Sadowsky NYC now and this was early 90's
I wasn't at Cult level but fully immersed in High End community
We had a few well to do customer's from Northern Virginia/DC that would buy a system from me then fly me out to their Area and back pay me $100 an hour from time I left my house to when I got home
to set up system in their Home
My personal home system was much more modest in dollar and cents maybe 7K retail all Linn equipment and enjoyed as much if not more than system above
The point yes I understand your 9v vs 18v dilemma
Both methods will do so, the boost is foot-switched and adds to whatever gain you have set.
Remember "The Pet Rock"?
Cha Cha Cha Chia Pet anyone?Remember "The Pet Rock"?
In 6 months 1.5 mil rocks were sold for 3.95 ea, in 1975
...a legendary 1970s novelty toy created by advertising executive Gary Dahl in 1975. Capitalizing on post-Watergate cynicism, it became a massive pop-culture phenomenon by selling a plain stone—packaged in a cardboard carrying case with air holes and a hilarious "care and training" manual—as a completely maintenance-free pet
There ya go. .
I could have millions sitting in the ground in my own yard and not know it
Nowadays my kids keep telling me I should be eating chia seeds...
I putting this in my, Leave Well Enough Alone diarySo…this happened:View attachment 7523859
I broke one of the original knobs as I was loosening the set screw.
