213cobra
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| Where R U????? Los Angeles, CA USAPhil | |
| Best blues guitarist, Clapton or Green Any true blues musician recognizes this as a ridiculous question. There is no "best" blues guitarist. Blues is (are) played for expression, not technique and certainly fretboard pyrotechnics are not a criterion for "best." Expressiveness wins. At ... | |
| Best bourbon? Pappy's 23 years is best, and can convince even a Scotch snob that Bourbon is a serious drink. Right behind it is Willett 18. Pappy's 20 years is terrific, and almost an entirely different thing from the 23, more rye-like in being spicier.Woodford... | |
| Best 845 amp? Audion Black Shadow mono pair. Right behind that, the Sophia 845 mono pair. Both are SET. I make it a point to seek better 845 amps, having heard and spent time with every alternative discussed here, plus some that aren't mentioned. Nothing so far... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly Mike (Mahughes),I've been buried in work and away from here for weeks. How are you doing with the re-break-in of your speakers after cold weather shipping?With Superfly, variances in the floor gap are far less critical than with Druid, which was t... | |
| Nagra VPA 845 vacuum tube suggestions The Shuguang 845B graphite plate matched pairs will work and sound fine in the Nagra amps.Phil | |
| What amp are you using with your Zu Essences? Your own ears will tell you, but no, reducing speaker impedance will not make the Peachtree's amp section sound better tonally. 6ohms may allow it to sound a little more energetic, however.Phil | |
| Zu Soul Superfly It's not my experience that Zu break-in is anything other than progressive and uni-directional. That is, it's a one-way street with no backtracking wih the singular exception of significant thermal changes.Zu itself has had the experience of doing... | |
| What amp are you using with your Zu Essences? Peachtree integrateds sound fine on Zu speakers, though better on the 12+ ohms speakers than the 6 ohms Definition configurations. "Fine" being the operative word. That is, for their cost Peachtree integrateds are beyond reproach. If you can affor... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly Can you elaborate about:".....Then the decorator arrived...." ?Phil | |
| What amp are you using with your Zu Essences? >>Phil do you have a favorite 845 Tube for the Carissa? It is coming with the KR 845<<The KR 845 is built and sounds different than a vintage RCA or Amperex 845, or the Shuguang tubes patterned after them. Earlier in the KR's productio... | |
| Solid State watts to power Zu Defintions? McIntosh solid state amps with both autoformer outputs and the quad-differential topology. As good as solid state will get on Defs. Pick your price; try for monoblocks; you're golden.Phil | |
| What amp are you using with your Zu Essences? I've heard Viva and Mastersound big SET on Zu speakers other than Essence. Have listened to Essence on Audion 845 monoblocks and Audion Golden Dream PSET monoblocks. Both of those amps are 25w. The Viva is euphonically old school. Not as illuminat... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly Coltrane,(I can't help but think of "The Royal Tennenbaums" starting with that salutation...) First, a half-century D'Angelico will sound fab through a plastic computer speaker, but that wouldn't nearly do it justice! You're a fortunate dude. But ... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly >>Superfly is the best transducer of guitar I have ever heard<<Among hifi speakers, without a doubt. I'm a 42 year guitar player. Even in Druid 6 years ago, it was guitar reproduction that first made me pay attention to what Zu was up ... |