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| Amps and Preamps has standby, but should I turn them completely off? Damn Wolf, cream Tolex with Oxblood grill cloth? Great, great guitar amp. | |
| Tube Phono Stage with balls, and slam!! Fremer described the sound of the Liberty B2B-1 phono amp as being what you may be looking for. It has an extremely high overload figure, a very good thing. | |
| Herron VTPH-2 12ax7 Recommendations? Speaking of the Herron phono amp and 12AX7 tubes.....the 5751 tube is said to be a 12AX7 substitute, a military grade tube with slightly lower gain than the 12AX7. Does anyone have experience with the 5751 in a circuit designed for the 12AX7? | |
| What piece(s) of equipment would you most like to try? Thorens TD-124 Mk.2, Garrard 301, Eminent Technology LFT-6, Pass electronics, Parasound JC-1 amps, Sanders Magtech amp. | |
| Best music for romantic interlude Love Hurts, The Everly Brothers. | |
| Favorite Female vocals that give you goose bumps Have I already done this? Well, no harm in doing it again.Iris Dement, Emmylou Harris, Julie Miller, Kasey Chambers, Tammy Wynette, Brenda Lee, Wanda Jackson, Rosie Flores, Lou Ann Barton, Joan Osborne, Dusty Springfield. | |
| You can only take 5 albums to a deserted Island... 1- J.S. Bach: just one?2- Mozart: Late Symphonies (a boxset can count as one, right?) 3- The Band: Music From Big Pink & s/t (you really need both to get the complete picture)4- Dave Edmunds: Get It5- The Dwight Twilley Band: Sincerely | |
| Help me choosing Phono Preamp A used Herron VTPH-2, if you can find one. | |
| Which Amp will sound Great with my Eminent 8B Speakers? The 8b’s magnetic-planar panel is a mostly-resistive 11 ohm load, the woofer 8 ohm. If you bi-amp the speaker (you really should), the panel prefers a voltage source, so any of the good modestly-powered (75-100w) tube amps will be fine. The woofer... | |
| Ayone know the wattage used at a Rock concert? I saw The Who and AC/DC, but my loudest show was The Ramones in L.A. in the 90's. I can't remember the venue, but the room was all cement, the sound bouncing off the walls from every direction forever. I got SUCH a headache. | |
| tube monoblocks and preamp recommendations Roger Modjeski at Music Reference does all kinds of custom jobs these days, lots of small tube amps and simple passive pre's. | |
| Best type of Sub to consider? Kenny, I ordered my H-frames from Jay (Captainhemo on the GR Research AudioCircle Forum) just as you want yours, with flush tops and bottoms. And I put the idea in his head to make the frames with inset grills, to look like speakers from the 60’s ... | |
| (Fun music) The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, NRBQ, The Skeletons, The Ramones, The Lyres, The Rubinoos, Nervous Norvus, Junior Brown, Commander Cody. | |
| White power cords Geoffkait, which Fulton's did you have? I sold my Tympani T-I's to buy a pair of Fulton J's, regretting it very soon thereafter. Nice clean deep bass and liquidly transparent highs (couldn't beat those RTR ESL tweeters back then), but I missed the... | |
| Any thoughts on a solid hickory platform under my tt Astro, I see things differently than you in this way: I chose to discuss the subject of this posting from a theoretical point of view, addressing the "why" of isolation. You prefer a statement of how a certain approach or product had what kind of ... |