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| 12AX7 replacement Brent Jessee at Brent Jessee Recording will give you good recommendations and has a large stock and will offer an optional warranty on your tubes (not a bad idea with NOS tubes). | |
| Help to chose acoustic Get yourself a pair of JBL L100 with the orange or blue grills... sweet! The Klipsch Heresy and a sub (or 3 or 4) is a good recommendation also. | |
| Speaker cable recommendations in my budget For the equipment you have now, Blue Jeans Cable should work great. If you get more resolving equipment in the future you might benefit from some better cables. | |
| Expert Advise Needed on Streamer - DAC combos. I went from a Node 2, bypassing the Node 2's DAC and using an Auralic Vega DAC (a $3500 DAC when new) to a TEAC ND-505. I paid less than your budget and it was a noticeable improvement over the Node 2/Vega combo. Music is a little warmer, less "... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Uber, will do. I've just been listening this morning. I haven't been doing any A/B comparisons, but it does seem like I noticed some things I haven't before in music I'm familiar with (The Nightfly is one of my most listened to albums). I bough... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Pat Metheny - From This Place, Qobuz Hi-ResTrying out a new (to me) headphone cable this morning... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Donald Fagen - The Nightfly, Qobuz Hi-Res | |
| Tubed Monos for Focal Aria 948s Not sure what your budget is, but Rogue Audio's monoblocks are fantastic. I have the M-180s. No experience with those speakers, so can't say how they would match up. When I had my Legacy Audio 20/20s (94db efficiency if I remember correctly), it w... | |
| Bits Are Bits, Right? Glad you are liking the Orchid uber. I have mine in my computer system. It sounds better than my turntable in that system by a considerable margin and the turntable, cartridge and phono stage cost close to three times as much as the Orchid. In my ... | |
| Any difference in SQ from USB drive storage to NAS playback? I knew what you meant Uber. Tomic, we have a music club here in Olympia that meets monthly. Tonight actually. If you would like to check it out sometime, let me know and I'll send details. | |
| Any difference in SQ from USB drive storage to NAS playback? Uber, Friday Harbor is a beautiful place. It would be great to meet up. I don't get to Seattle too often tomic, but it would be great to meet you as well. You're in Redondo if I remember right? | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? The Stones - Beggars Banquet | |
| Any difference in SQ from USB drive storage to NAS playback? Do I hear a Seattle Meetup in the works? | |
| Whats playing on your system today? The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet | |
| Amp for Harbeth P3ESR and Cambridge Audio Azur 851N You might be thinking of the newest Vincent SV 237MK, however it retails for about $2,400 USD (are you in another country?), not $4.5K. The unit I bought was a second hand Vincent SV 237 (no "MK"), the previous generation. I paid $1250, or $250 ... |