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| NOS Tubes - Ecstasy or Agony I think NOS tubes are an area where who you're dealing with matters more than anything. My experience has been that tubes matter a lot more in a preamp than an amp. I've had tubes fail in my amps, but I've never experienced a sound quality issue... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? No offense taken, I was just having some fun too :) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Elvin Bishop - Live! Rasin' Hell. I never saw Elvin Bishop live, but this record makes me wish I would have. Sounds like a fun time and some great music. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @beach2mtn I stopped getting married a long time ago, so no wife to leave when I rock out! I do have a super cool girlfriend that loves to listen to music too, but she's a little less into J.P. than I am. She would have enjoyed Bob though. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? The Cars Candy-O, Nautilus half- speed master | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks | |
| For those that use an external DAC with node 2i @jjss49 If you want to talk about value, I just bought a second TEAC NT-505 for $1200. It sounds better than any of the Node 2/DAC combinations I tried. The cheapest of those combinations would have been the node 2 and the Mytek Liberty which comb... | |
| New at Qobuz - no HiRes sound Glad to hear you are enjoying the TEAC agosto! | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Judas Priest - Priest in the East, Japan import. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @spiritofradio there was not a noticeable issue with ringing, but if you tap on the horns... I don't think the damping is going to hurt anything. | |
| For those that use an external DAC with node 2i @jjss49 the dac drives 80-90% of the nature of sqSo you agree that what comes before the DAC matters but are saying that a 10-20% difference in sound quality doesn't matter? | |
| For those that use an external DAC with node 2i You can not be certain of the source of the music available streaming. That is why I only listen to physical media.But you're certain of the source of the physical media? Okay.On topic - If you'd like an improvement over the sound quality of the ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @spiritofradio Putting Dyanmat on the horns is supposed to help damp them and eliminate ringing. I'm thinking about whether to replace the crossovers or not, and if so, whether to get Crites or ALK. I've replaced crossovers with Crites in Heresy... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @tomic601 I didn't do the caps. |