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| What are you streaming tonight? The Greatest Guitar Solos - Qobuz playlist. It's hard to take too seriously when Rock Bottom by UFO was omitted, but there's some good stuff. | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Tom Petty - Wildflowers, Qobuz | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Steely Dan - Katy Lied, Qobuz | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Steely Dan - Gaucho, Qobuz Hi-Res | |
| Looking for closed back headphone advice Most headphone amps are afterthoughts, so generalizing that a dedicated headphone amp is normally going to be better than one included in a receiver, integrated, or preamp is anything but "puffery". My Modwright LS 100 has a pretty decent headpho... | |
| Harbeth Super HL5 plus Break-in big_greg,He said any competently designed amplifier played back at the SAME volume would be indistinguishable from any other.I believe he is right.Give or take the odd tube design, but even they are now sounding like SS amplifiers!I'd invite you t... | |
| Bob Dylan - new album just out on Tidal - Rough and Rowdy Ways I really enjoyed it. His singing is more straightforward and his poetry and subject matter are still weighty and the music itself is enjoyable. I like the elder Bob more in some ways than the young Bob. Blood on the Tracks will always be my fav... | |
| Shootout of Nos 6sn7 tubes Thomas, the replacement tubes are much better. They are a little more noisy than other tubes I've tried but they do great things with the music. It seems to have more weight and texture. | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Steely Dan - Two Against Nature, Qobuz Hi-Res | |
| Time for a (reasonably priced) phono preamp... If you can find a used Musical Surroundings Nova Phonomena, that's a great unit, very quiet with lots of gain and loading settings. The Parks Puffin is also a great value and won't take up much space if that's an issue. | |
| Pick my album What did I win? | |
| What are you streaming tonight? It's making my liver quiver right now. | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Deep Purple, live in Japan is what I'm listening to now on vinyl. Plenty of bass material there. | |
| What are you streaming tonight? @16f4 I'm not sure that I've ever listened to it but Erykah Badu Live ought to give your sub a nice workout. I'm not sure how much of a workout for subwoofers either of these would be but two of my favorite live albums are UFO's Strangers in the N... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Deep Purple - Made in Japan, purple vinyl. |