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| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? Starwarrior Are those vinyl? Totally understand the fingers and frets. Good vinyl does that. Tori Amos, Under the Pink on pink vinyl is an excellent recording. The piano sounds very real. One song is a very beat up out of tune old piano. You can ... | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? I have DSOTM on Island. Island is great and will always be better than the US copies. I also have a Japanese re-master version. The Island is still the best. I don't mind hearing about other sources, just that streaming is not what I have. CD's ... | |
| If anyone is still looking for a SLP-98 Yup, I just bought a desoldering rig in the last year. No idea what took me so long. Very handy tool. Knowing almost zero about all of these components is what makes me nervous. With no experts anywhere near where I live, I have to send things awa... | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? I have some Mahavishnu Orchestra. Will have to dig them out. Been awhile. Was listening to Al Di Meola with a buddy of mine on CD. It's interesting, not my thing but tolerable. It is very well recorded as is a lot of jazz. I just don't listen to ... | |
| If anyone is still looking for a SLP-98 A friend of mine sent me a Moscode preamp and it is called a hybrid. He sent it to me to see if it needed tubes as he has no way to test and it had stopped working for him. It had a bad mute switch that just needed cleaning. I was not overly impre... | |
| If anyone is still looking for a SLP-98 Tube depot maybe but I think Brent Jessee does sell some EH and JJ tubes. Any modern tubes I've ever had looked to be very poorly made. I haven't had a great deal of them but Mazda, some Chinese and Yugoslavian (EI?) tubes and none were what I'd c... | |
| If anyone is still looking for a SLP-98 Thanks for all. Seems to me that Brent Jessee speaks well of the EH and JJ's but I may be mixing him up with another tube site that I go to. Most who sell something will have at least "something nice" to say. Hard to sell things if you say, "hey,... | |
| If anyone is still looking for a SLP-98 I believe I was told Jensen caps. The tubes are EH 6SN7, I think 2 are gold and two are not. AU's and AX's are JJ. Probably not what I want to hear. I have quite a lot of vintage AU's and AX's and variants that will be better than JJ's. I've never... | |
| Best Classical Labels for Sound Crystal Clear and Umbrella. Both did D2D and did it well. Telarc is already mentioned and is outstanding. I don't think vinyl ever got any better but any D2D that I've heard is quite amazing. London and Decca both can be good. EMI is another. I t... | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? I absolutely find things on youtube and have made decisions to buy vinyl or cd's after hearing or seeing a video. Have found a lot that way and some I'm content just to leave on youtube and have a casual listen. The Spoon Lady is kind of fun. Tons... | |
| If anyone is still looking for a SLP-98 Funny. I looked for a good while and each time I found one, it would be gone by the time I tried to buy it. Maybe you remember that I settled on the Aesthetix Calypso Signature. Got it home, used it for a couple listening sessions. It did a nice j... | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? I used to listen to Zappa Apostrophe a lot back in the 80s' Fun album but I don't think of it as reference material. It does have some interesting sounds and songs, humor mixed with musical talent. Zappa was one of the first live concerts I ever w... | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? Interesting responses. I find it hard to imagine that streaming can compare to high quality vinyl but not hearing it for myself, I certainly cannot say. For me and my system, vinyl has been the preference at least 90% of the time. My system is gea... | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? I don't stream anything..........yet. Never say never but I am very content listening to vinyl and cd's, mostly vinyl. For serious listening, it is vinyl 90% of the time. So...........I'm really looking for what pieces of vinyl stand out as stella... | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? I had a whole collection of Mannheim Steamroller Christmas LP's that I never listened to until this past holiday season. They are easily my favorites now. Not a huge Christmas music fan but some is certainly enjoyable. I always listened to TSO ove... |