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| The awakening... @prof : replacing one obsession with another is an old trick... I'm trying to see if I can be rid of obsessions, period :-) It ain't easy in our modern, consumption oriented society. | |
| The awakening... @mapman : Yes indeed :-) I've been trapped in old conceptions, and getting free feels great! | |
| The awakening... @stringreen : Most cars serve a purpose - getting you from point A to point B with varying degrees of efficiency, luxury and performance. Exotic performance cars (most Porsches excluded from this category) serve a completely different purpose.They... | |
| The awakening... Hi all and thanks for your thoughts!@nonoise: You may be right, only time will tell... My living room system with Hypex Ncore monoblocks, Schiit BiFrost multibit, SoTM streamer, DIY Audionote clone preamp, and a Project TT probably provides >90... | |
| classe twenty five and classe fifteen I owned a fifteen, and it was a very nice amp. Solid, musical, pleasant, flowing and rhythmic. I liked it a lot, in my second system, driving a pair of vintage Ryan MCL3. Seemed appropriate vintage for the speakers.I wasn’t really looking to repla... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? The Smiths: Strangeways, Here We Come | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Velvet Revolver: Contraband | |
| Mytek slams Hypex in Stereophile Amp Review I own a pair of Hypex Ncore 500 monoblocks and they are mind-blowing good. They drive a pair of 3 way Ryan MCL 3 that also have complex crossovers and aren't the easiest of loads. In my system, they beat quite a few highly regarded amps, some cost... | |
| Why aren't new vacuum tubes as good as old ones? My Yamamoto A08s uses 45 tubes. I have both the original WW2 era NOS set, hand / ear picked and matched by Mr. Shigeki Yamamoto himself, and a set of new production EML mesh 45s.The EMLs are 3 leagues above the NOS in terms of sound quality in eve... | |
| Best Preamp - NO preamp... (?) Yep @georgehifi ... No one knows, but I doubt it, as Paul McGowan is one of the rare, brutally honest, no BS guys I've had the pleasure of knowing in this business. He was not ashamed to admit in the PS Audio forums, that a $10 Chinese made Amazon... | |
| Best Preamp - NO preamp... (?) @georgehifi +1Since I opened this thread almost 2 years ago, I have had the chance to audition a few other preamps in the loop, just to amuse my audiophile friends who insisted 'But you haven't heard XYZ preamp yet... it will take your system to ... | |
| Best Preamp - NO preamp... (?) @geoffkait and how about a speaker switcher unit for better kicks? | |
| Best vintage amps (late 70s / early 80s) under $3k? Not really a practical option as these are extremely rare, but if you happen to get lucky and find a SONY TAN 8550 V-FET amp, grab it as fast as you can! Good condition one will cost $1500-$2000, only challenge is getting replacement V-FET if you ... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Asaf Avidan and the Mojos - the Reckoningif you’ve never heard Asaf Avidan before, give it a try.Saryn Chorney on People.com said it nicely: “Avidan, 34, sounds like the musical love child of Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan, or maybe Janis Joplin mee... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Bad Company - Stories told and untold Phillip Glass - Heroes symphony |