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Happy Birthday!

I am sorry for your loss. Best of luck to you navigating retirement I hope you enjoy it as much as I am!

Thread revival…. My MW had been sitting in the closet since moving to the new house as my focus has been getting the room and my main system setup. Finally brought the Fried Model C Pyramid’s into the room about 6’ from my listening chair and hooked the MW directly to my Oppo BDP-83SE. Pretty...

I am making some progress on the sleep thing in retirement as I have for years got by on about 4hrs sleep. I have not used an alarm since High School and have been waking up at 3am for probably the past 30 years. Still wake up about half the time at 3 but now stretch it to 4-4:30 sometimes.

Congratulations Heather and to all those members who were nominated!

We moved to a new 55+ community last Summer and it is the norm here whether walking or driving to wave hello to everyone passing by. There are Friday night get togethers and other Social activities that are well attended and everyone is very friendly. Quite the contrast to our previous residence...

Welcome to AK! Love my Traveler!

I have owned briefly two pairs of SMG's and currently own a pair of MMG's. One pair of the SMGs was fine and the other had the beginnings of the delamination issue. The buzz caused by the delaminating was only apparent when playing a very low Bass passage so testing with some music that you know...

Paying bills while listening to the office system. Streaming to my NAD 3020D and Snell Type J IV’s

I think you are taking a good approach. Best of luck to you on making your retirement decisions!!

When to take SS really needs to be determined on a case by case basis based a variety of factors. Health issues impacting longevity and the reliance on SS for your basic living expenses are just two of those factors. Anyone saying that there is an exact best time to start taking SS that applies...

I have 2 Oppo's that I bought used one is the standard BDP-83 that I use in one of my headphone systems and the other is a BDP-83SE that I got from the original owner about 5 years ago and is in my main system. They have been trouble free for the whole time I have had them. Probably got a...

Been awhile since I posted on this thread but I have been consistently adding to the LP collection. This has been a pretty good weekend for new additions.

Happy Belated Birthday!

You can benefit from a separate phono preamp but it somewhat depends on your goals and budget. For example whenn looking up the NAD C658 it appears that it only has a Moving Magnet (MM) phono output so if you want to switch to a Moving Coil (MC) cartridge then you will need a separate phono...