bolong
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| Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact? Amp manufacturers know that people are going to roll tubes anyway - it's part of the charm - so why not let them do that for themselves. | |
| Measurements for a dedicated line Think I’ll do that. Of course, my experience is not uncommon: Power Conditioners - Jay's Audio Lab | |
| Cable Break In for the Naysayers Vibroacoustics Really, we are just babes-in-the-woods as regards music's effects on us. There is a much wider arena of influence that may explain our befuddlement with the differences we hear between scoped measurements and our perceptions. ****... | |
| Measurements for a dedicated line It's not component noise based on what I am not hearing through my horns. If it's noise or voltage on the lines I have no way of knowing that. | |
| Measurements for a dedicated line My dedicated line made a big difference in system sound quality, but still it sounds best after midnight and into the witching hours. | |
| Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact? Amperex Bugle Boy f your amps are running 12au7’s the Amperex Bugle Boy tubes placed in the central "gain" positions can be very good. However, buyer beware as I have heard these are sometimes Asian fakes. The two linked above look almost too goo... | |
| Sound and Music Some would consider this a cop out, but I find that a mild cannabis high does wonders for filling in the blanks. I consider cannabis to be a sort of sonic filter that nearly always agrees with me and is a part of my "system." Lots of musicians wou... | |
| Preamp for a GaN-FET amp... Yeah, I was wondering why Guttenberg had been ignoring it. He still hasn't touched on the May. | |
| Songs you use when auditioning gear I use difficult music such as Sarah McCoy's "Blood Siren." It's a mysterious and unorthodox album that I love. McCoy has a speech impediment and a cajun accent to boot. When I ran it through recently acquired Audion mk3 monoblocs it was when I was... | |
| Preamp for a GaN-FET amp... My Audion MK3's are fed by a Primaluna EVO 400 tube pre now. Very good pairing. Since the DAC is a Holo Audio May KTE I just ordered a Holo Serene KTE to see what that's like. May be 5 or 6 weeks getting it though. | |
| Building your music digital music collection Still old school here - burning to redbook CD’s and storing the media on my shelves in labelled DVD boxes. I had been downloading files from AllFlac.com until they quit accepting USA credit cards and starting offering only bitcoin purchasing. Now ... | |
| Sound and Music Recently added a pair of GanFET monoblocs to my system and doubt I will have to go any further. A sigh of relief. | |
| New Generation Class D - AGD Audion Mkiii upgrade My recently purchased Audion MK111's took about 50 hours to start really singing. They are fronted by a well broken-in Primaluna EVO 400 tube pre-amp. This pairing seems to be working very well. Hearing things I had not heard before and having fu... | |
| Cable Break In for the Naysayers Shunyata Cable Talk Shunyata has some of the more elaborate explanations of their cable designs which I find compelling only because I really like their cables especially the Alpha XC's which I have added as feed cables to some older Shunyata pow... | |
| Cable Break In for the Naysayers I make DIY "cores" applied at strategic positions on my vintage Western Electric cloth wire speaker cables to manage "treble noise." The core is not ferrite but is instead a ring of beads made of girasol quartz. It is astonishing what a difference... |