ahendler
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| RVG "the best" RIP Rudy used tube equipment to record with. Neumann mikes with tube pres built in. Combine the all tube equipment recorded to tape, his genius and some of the greatest jazz musicians to ever record and you have a great legacy. Quite the career that h... | |
| Would you go all 1 brand for electronics? I would do an all Shindo sytem or an all Audio-note systemOnly downside is the cost of these systemsThe Shindo system with there custom Garrard turntable is about $225,000Need to hit the lotteryAlan | |
| Can a buyer back out with no penalty? I have always used Paypal with no problemsOnce I bought something that turned out to be a scam and Paypal got my money back. Everything I have sold That I was payed with Paypal has worked with no problems. I would never let a stranger in my house ... | |
| Auralic or arender? The Auralic aires sounds pretty good. I had some technical difficulties with mine but might have been a wifi issue. Replaced it with a MacBook Pro and stream Tidal, Classicsonline and use Jriver and it sounds better than the Auralic. Have not hear... | |
| Soundtracks that you listen all the way through and it's all great. The Alien TrilogyWhere the river runs blackThe Ghost and Mrs. MuirBen HurThe princess brideVertigoInterstellerThe MissionThe GriftersTo Kill a MockingbirdThe Day the Earth Stood StillThe Shawshank RedemptionThe Green MileAlan | |
| The most transparent speaker cable No such thing as final anything in high end audio. I have got rid of all my expensive speaker cable ( MIT, High Diamond 8, Auditorium 23 and Nordost) and replaced them with cheap Western Electric 16 gauge speaker cable. $160 for 3 meter pair. Best... | |
| Audio Note DAC 5 Special / Signature v the rest of high end? Not heard the Dac5. Owned the Audionote Dac 2.1b. Liked it a lot. Bought another R2R nos dac, the Audio-GD Master 7 which is much better than the Audio NoteAlan | |
| Antique sound lab hurricane On each side panel there is a selector switch for each of the tubes. Select a tube and then adjust using the setscrew adjustment for the selected tubes. If you are using KT-88's adjust bias between 450 and 500 on front meter. I found that 480 soun... | |
| Is it extra gain or two matched cables or both that improve the sound ? This is an open forum. Anyone can post to any thread. If you don't like what someone is saying then just ignore it. Doesn't your integrated have seperate pre out and power in connections. Most integrateds do. Tis will allow you to listen to the pr... | |
| advice- DACs with Tubes, Or??? budget Look at tube buffersAlan | |
| Kubala-Sosna Elation Speaker Cables The cost of cables does not indicate the quality of sound. I recently replaced $5000 worth of cables in my $40000 system with $300 worth of cables . The inexpensive cables are much more musical than the high cost cables and I am selling the high c... | |
| DACs that upsample to DSD internally? Why?Upsampling creates no additional information. Alan | |
| DSD vs. PCM vs. MQA - Group listening experiment Shouldn't the MQA file be 24/44 or 24/48?Alan | |
| Toslink cables...do they make a difference? Our advice is always based on our experience in our own system. If all we say is it is system dependent there would be recommendations ever givenAlan | |
| Toslink cables...do they make a difference? Don't like toslink but glass is better than polymer. To many additional conversions going on in toslink at the sending end and the receiving end. Coax or aes/ebu is much betterAlan |