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x10V3 Tube buffer: Class A Sound or dud?
exactly my experience as well. tube buffers are very good with solid state gear, but avoid them with tube amps, or tube pre. 
Sonic footprint of the Esoteric DV-50s with CD's
It sounds like CD player to me. there are many fairy tales around but it is by no means digital source, if you know what i mean. 
spendor 3/5 vs era vs avi vs vienna acoustics hayd
I think again we should separate two words which came to my mind regarding your doubts: "big" and "complex". it's not the same thing. small monitors could handle "complex" materials very well, but usually they've sound as big as its physical limit... 
spendor 3/5 vs era vs avi vs vienna acoustics hayd
in your initial post, you didn't say nothing about listening big orchestra with any of these speakers?it seems to me you are wasting our time with your "serious" questions about certain choices?  
Eastern Electric Minimax CD vs Jolida 100
@mrtennisThat's how I see some other tubed CD players (Shanling). They sound totally solid state to my ears, don't know what is the use of tubes though?but, do you have any other suggestions about good CD player under 1000 $? 
What is Better? SS Amp+Tube CD OR Tube Amp+SS CD
@Mrtennisyou're right, all tube and SS these days are alike. i spent some time with new generation of complete tube gear, mostly tube integrated, and was very dissapointed. i don't want tube gear to sound like SS but that's exactly what i get at t... 
spendor 3/5 vs era vs avi vs vienna acoustics hayd
I have VA Haydn Grand and your description is what you look after: it goes officialy down to 42hz, and I think bass goes pretty low, cabinet is not only gorgeus but very sturdy and thick, sound is laidback ( VA is using Seas tweeter which in my bo... 
Tips for warming up Rotel + B&W system?
forget room, interconnects,cables, any kind of voodo treatment and get instead some tube amp, push pull is ok but all the better if you can get something which will work in triode mode. I gave up of SS gear a long ago, and it is the best advice I ... 
Vienna Acoustics Bach Grand
Just to add some things: VA is using almost exclusivelly tweeters and woofers made by SEAS and Scanspeak. My VA Haydn Grand is using SEAS and some more expensive models are using Scanspeak. 
Speaker Sugestions Wanted $1500 max
Vienna Acoustics Haydn Grand. Gorgeous build and finish, excellent sound, and goes very well with tubes. 
Speakers for Audio Analogue Primo
Hello, I have paired them with Vienna Acoustics Haydn Grand, and i'm more than pleased. VA is warm and unfatiguing with the very good bass for its size. i think you can't go wrong with this duo for jazz and vocals. 
Tweeters, Scanspeak or Seas
i hope you don't mind jumping at your thread, but I'd like to know something which could be usefull to the original poster as well. I have Vienna Acoustics Haydn Grand, and as far as I can tell it has Seas tweeter inside. but, do someone know whic... 
i want a dull, caramel colored cd player any ideas
I do understand what are you talking about. since day one of CD, i was thinking of them as sharp as hell medium. during the years every generation of CD players have better sharpness, resolution, details and so on, which makes them up until now pr... 
is there a current production 20 bit cd player ?
NAD C-521BEE is 20-bit machine also. 
Wich high end CD palyer?
maybe I'm wrong, but i think how people who can get 12.000 euros of spare cash on CD player alone are not visiting any forum. they either don't have enough time for this because they're making money, and at the same time they don't have enough tim...