alvinnir2
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| Tube amp recommendations to drive Joseph Audio speakers How much power you need of course depends on the size of your room and the listening levels you prefer. Based on a review I read of your speakers by the Part Time Audiophile, he had good results with a Class A tubed amp that output 25W per channel... | |
| Digitally recorded vinyl vs streaming I sold all my vinyl and vinyl playing gear over a year ago because frankly, there was no consistent "better" when comparing the 2 formats I didn’t have a huge vinyl collection, maybe 250 albums. Sometimes the vinyl sounded better, sometimes the d... | |
| How Long Is Too Long? That is appalling. 4 months is way too long to wait for service. Sounds like he does not have the business sense to recognize the fact that servicing a previous customer is at least as important as profits from new sales. Personally, I would mov... | |
| I was happy with my system for 30 years; now I need a new amp...and more? I have the same listening tastes as you, Dr.! Having bounced back and forth between Solid State and tubes over the years I can say that I am never truly happy until I have a tube preamp and power amp together in the system. In my experience havin... | |
| Are you interested in the new generation of "old school" design loudspeakers? When my beloved Snell speakers got swamped in a flood in my lower level listening room, I had to replace them. I needed speakers of reasonable efficiency as I was driving them with Quicksilver 40 watt tube monoblocks. I was willing to spend $10,0... | |
| "Audiophile" Power Cables: The Greatest Audio Conspiracy Theory of All Time? With a blindfold Listen to a good quality $2000 speaker and then swap them out for a pair of $20K high end speakers. Would I hear a difference? I’d think I consistently would, so would any of us. Listen to a decent integrated amp and then swap i... | |
| Beatles vs. Stones Wasn't is supposed to be who do you like better the Beatles or the Dave Clark Five? I was around back in those days and that was the comparison I saw in US media As if..... | |
| Sensitivity 86 v 90 I have had various speakers and amps. Almost all amps I have had were tube of various wattages and speakers that varied from 86 db to 90db, 4 ohms, 8 ohms....you name it. Frankly in my modest sized rooms and listening to levels in the 85-90b rang... | |
| Is a noisy tube a bad sounding tube @erik_squires True, the LS17 has 26db of gain | |
| 50 years of Hip Hop- How Come? OP back into this thread. Perhaps it’s time to move on. I never intended my post to be a debate on the merit or lack of merit of hip hop or for that matter any genre. Even worse to see criticism with racial undertones. I was trying to point out t... | |
| New take on CD vs Vinyl vs CD +1 dinov. I went the same route as you with a Bluesound node and then up the food chain with an R2R DAC and Auralic G2 streamer. Sold my turntable and phono stage for more than what I paid for it and all my vinyl also at top dollar to one person (... | |
| 50 years of Hip Hop- How Come? Seem like a lot of people commenting in support of hip hop. I’m not trying to slam hip hop at all. Some of it is great and some not so good, like any other kind of music. My point is it’s been so long since anything radically new has emerged. The... | |
| 50 years of Hip Hop- How Come? @ghasley It's real music and has great appeal to many, no doubt about that, and that is a great thing. It just seems to me like I'm ready to hear some thing totally new and fresh musically, and I have been for some time. Seems like things change... | |
| streaming and audiophile stereo I'd say mm1tt7 summed it up pretty good. i have a few hopefully useful comments to add. There are a lot of new words and terminology with streaming. Hopefully I can explain some of this in simple terms Your streamer and DAC are your source, just ... | |
| Quobuz subscription Some streamers have limits on the resolution of certain outputs. Often the USB output is able to do higher resolution that say Coax. Might want to check that out. |