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| Whats playing on your system today? 1st LPs in a long time but yeah, today we got back on the deck... Leon Bridges Good Thing, Talk Talk The Color of Spring, Stereophonics Performance and Cocktails & capped the session with The Golden Palominos Visions of Excess. | |
| KT88 Tubes Apos - yeah no, not for me either. I use NOS 6550 by GE, RCA or Winged C in my KT88/6550 amps. Have had nothing but good luck with them. Best new issue are Good Lion KT88s but I'll spend more for the NOS mentioned. Just my experience & opinion | |
| Unusual countries for audio gear Sempersonus, wonderful idler drive turntables designed and manufactured in Portugal | |
| Integrated that blew you away I can add a couple more - Audio Note Mieshu line (original not Tonemaster) and the Audiomat Solfège Reference. Both equally great with the right speakers. Using a Solfège today with a custom Altec Valencia system. Geez, spectacular! | |
| Unusual countries for audio gear Margules is fantastic gear designed & manufactured in Mexico | |
| Integrated amp under $5k https://unisonresearch.com/en/prodotti/unico-due/ This one! | |
| Integrated that blew you away There were two... the Musical Fidelity A1 with a set of JBL 4312s - that was my 1st great amp after coming from a pretty solid Yamaha CA-810 and then about 12 or so years ago I heard a Simaudio Moon i-7 at the headmaster's house where my son was g... | |
| Tune of the Day Jason Isbell - "Children of Children" off Something More Than Free | |
| Best Match/Best Synergy? Audience Cables - the best ones you can afford. I use AU24 all around and they are terrific in my setup. I went from Transparaent to Audience and have been happy with these speaker lines, RCAs and Coax cable for several years. Just my opinion... | |
| Tune of the Day Moby - "Honey" off Play Steophonics - "Handbags and Gladrags" off Just Enough Education To Perform | |
| Tune of the Day Paul Weller, "5th Season" off Live Wood - over and over again. When you invite your guitar tech on stage to jam and he absolutely shreds. | |
| Update for best SS amps for Harbeth 40,.2 anniversary spks Plinius Hiato integrated - heard one a few weeks ago with Perlisten R7t - didn't want to leave the shop. https://www.pliniusaudio.com/en/Plinius_Range/Integrated_Amplifiers/Hiato.html | |
| Favorite Song Lyrics of All Time. What Say You? Paul Weller - "As You Lean Into The Light" off Heavy Soul Gentle rain Here it comes again Rattling 'round your window, threatening pain Coming on like a friend, but you know better than Yesterday that held you by a different hand Hail and stone... | |
| Speaker choice without need for deep bass These! https://holthill.com/collections/vintage-audio/products/equation-7-tower-speakers-hand-made-in-belgium-exquisite-sound | |
| Favorite Song Lyrics of All Time. What Say You? Elvis Costello, "This Years Girl" See her picture in a thousand places ’Cause she’s this year’s girl You think you all own little pieces Of this year’s girl Forget your fancy manners Forget your English grammar ’Cause you don’t really give a damn... |