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| TUBE AMP LOVERS - What SS amp makes you smile??? All great points Granny. I assume what Paravicini means is he can build a SS amp that sounds just like any of HIS tube amps. Including how it interacts with it's input (source), and it's output load (loudspeakers)? Given the output impedance of po... | |
| looking at upgrading my tonearm from a triplanar Is the Mk.VII Triplanar a significant improvement over the Mk.VI, or merely incremental? | |
| Some Musical Truths Hank Williams, my favorite philosopher! Dylan's too, I believe. | |
| List of Audio Tube Measured Noise Performance Is the tube noise data significantly effected by the equipment used to measure it? Will your results pretty well match those of Roger Modjeski (RAM Tube Works) and Kevin Deal (Upscale Audio) if the same tube was to be tested by all three of you? O... | |
| Who is your overall favorite guitarist? Chuck's style is SO iconic---it IS Rock 'n' Roll guitar! And though his playing is pretty basic, not requiring a lot of chops, remember the scene in "Hail Hail Rock & Roll" where Keith is playing the guitar part in "Oh Carol" (I think it was),... | |
| TUBE AMP LOVERS - What SS amp makes you smile??? Tim Paravicini (EAR-Yoshino) claims he can use either technology to achieve the same sound, but makes primarily tube products for marketing reasons (he does offer a few SS pieces). I don't know---it seems like he could sell a lot of tube-sounding ... | |
| Some Musical Truths I was standing in the bathroom just now, when my all-time number one truth expressed in song suddenly came to me:"No matter how I struggle and striveI'll never get out of this world alive"Have truer words ever been spoken? And these by a hillbilly! | |
| What's the solid state amp to buy $2500? Excellent---an all Herron amp system! | |
| HeresysIII at low Volume For low volume vocals and jazz the original Quad ESL can't be bettered. | |
| Who is your overall favorite guitarist? Chuck Berry underappreciated?! I believe everyone acknowledges Chuck as THE model for Rock & Roll guitar playing. Keith Richards certainly does, as well as the guy whom I feel optimized Chuck's style, Dave Edmunds. | |
| What's the solid state amp to buy $2500? You just missed the Herron monos that sold on Audiogon a couple of days ago for $2250, I believe it was. Maybe another pair will come along. | |
| Disturbing "Sonic Trend" showing up on SOTA audio True Psag. The WWII generation heard unamplified orchestras, both Big Band and Classical, the Korean War generation heard folk singers and acoustic guitars in coffee houses, on college campuses, and at parties, but the Vietnam War generation forwa... | |
| How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre Agear, only in the hair length sense. I too have Norwegian ancestory, the closest I come to Native American is my dad was from S. Dakoda! I used to tan, but stopped when cancer's starting showing up on skin in my 40's. Too much time at the Santa C... | |
| Early Music aka Historically Informed Music There was a similar mag that Gramophone itself was publishing, named Gramophone Early Music. I have issues 1-4 from 1999-2000, which I found at Tower Records. I never saw any more issues, and had forgotten all about it until I saw this posting. Th... | |
| ARC Ref 75 vs. Ref 75 SE I did. |