atlvalet
Responses from atlvalet
| The Best Preamp is no Preamp? Granted my sample size is small at only one, but I heard people waxing poetic about no preamp. So I ran my Audiolab 8300CDQ directly to my Aragon Palladium 2 monoblocks. It seemed good. Until I hooked a preamp back up. Holy moley, a ton of detail,... | |
| Bought powerful/expensive Amp+Speakers but plan to use an old preamp , am I crazy? Honestly, the only way to truly know is to listen side-by-side with another option. For example, I recently bought a Van Alstine Ultravalve Tube amp for a second tier system (wanted some tube ish) and paired it with a Aragon 24K SP preamp that wa... | |
| Fascinated By GR Research Channel I find what he has to say really interesting. And not only does he "edit" speakers (fixing/improving someone else's design), he also designs speakers. Every once in awhile I wonder if there's too much of a good thing when you tweak stuff (after o... | |
| Is Rap a valid musical form? Lol @ every geezer posting some variation of "Rap is crap" thinking they’re super witty 😂 A lot of you old blokes are doing it wrong. You’re trying to listen to hip hop through your single ended triode amps. What trash. Get yourself an 80’s era b... | |
| Is Rap a valid musical form? Holy moley, I'm 50 and this is the most Boomer post I've read in awhile. How old are you, OP? Throw on some Whodini or Sugarhill's "Rapper's Delight. That's the OG stuff right there. I mean, it's okay to say you don't understand hip hop or even ... | |
| Still happily using vintage gear? Well, before COVID, I had a set of Vanderteen 2Ci’s, and Adcom GFA-555 and an Adcom preamp/tuner with an old Sony CD player. I got that setup 30 years ago in college. And because of COVID, I sold everything.Now that I have landed on my feet, I hav... | |
| Long hiatus from audio, getting back into it, speaker/room help please I was in a similar situation in that I hadn’t poked around with audio since buying my Vandersteen 2Ci’s and an Adcom GFA-555 in 1991. I had to sell most of my stuff due to COVID. Luckily, I landed on my feet and started rebuilding my system about ... |