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Eccl: nice response, thank you; I just knew there was some juicy-good experience lurking back there...:o) Yes, agreed, NOS tubes are different in different applications, but I guess what I was trying to say: Which one do you reach for first when a... 
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Good morning everyone. Snowing here, 6 inches they say, or said...Chicago in winter. But last night, with only 12 hours until the storm hit, the meteorologists, who get their data from the NWS, a bunch of scientists, are now off on the timing of t... 
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Ecclec: yes, I hear you, but now, here, do you see? I'm not much of an appeaser. Besides, I know who Krhys "is", so I knew it wouldn't go far; anonymity is the hobgobblin of small minds. I called him out and the rest did the rest. But I know what ... 
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kryhst, and evryone else...sorry, got off on a detour out there, somewhere.Hi Zaikes. Soup sounds great. Thank you for remembering me. Merry Kryhstmas :0)Khrys: hmmm, discretion is the better part of...would you like to pick a subject with me? I w... 
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Khrys, I'll bite...you jealous little baby.how's that? 
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Tonneson...rigghhhhtttt.Now, how about that Pass Aleph P thang just a sttin' there, justa dyin' for a shot across that dare bow! Oh well...all is happy in Whoville tonight. 
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Bwhite, get off the merry-go-round, fast, please, escape, ESCAPE!!!! :0) 
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Passion, passion, not a bad thing, if directed appropriately...Even ignoring Mick's response, I don't think this is an example of the manipulative marketing stategy of the Sig model, or Master series, or Mk II, etc. that we are all on the gaurd fo... 
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I don't think its true balanced, meaning balanced from input to output within pre, but rather, just has balanced connectors to enable those with balanced systems to get a Supratek. To be honest, I think balanced was a bigger deal back when RCA dig... 
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Yea, Manila is a tough one; ya know with all the middle east terrorists holed up in the Phillipine jungles probably making WMD's (or, maybe hiding Saddam's there!) and Americans so afraid of brown-er people in general, and then there is always the... 
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Cy, your Puccini just came up for sale at $625. If you get it, let us know how it turned out. 
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If you are going 2 channel, then chuck the Denon and add that money to purchase (assuming not already done). Get yourself a good British integrated SS amp, say, the older 25W class A Musical Fidelity (can't remember, getting way too old, A1, I thi... 
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Oh yea, guys above who know about the WE 350B, please educate me: tell me about the various vintages, any difference soundwise, costs justified between them or just crazy collectors for the older stuff, like with the 300B (although there it may be... 
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If you run digital into SS direct - and like SS and digital - then you will like it better direct; more detail and you don't mind the ever more heightened incongruency between void space, even void-er, and detail (a bias towards hearing the detail... 
Opinions on why this system is uninvolving
Bwhite...a six month old echo can be heard. Do you hear it?Teres 265, teres, teres...Koetsu Urushi, urushi, urushi...:0)