bolong
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| How long does it take your tube amp to warm up? I used to complain about my Primaluna's needing 2 hours to warm up and really sound glorious. However, I now realize that neither the amps nor the Sophia Electric blue "coke bottle" EL-34's were actually broken in. The Sophia's have a 5,000 hour r... | |
| "I'm a believer" Diminishing returns can suddenly materialize and bite you in the ass - just look at EV's now. Same with audio equipment which is always subject to unforeseen technological displacement. You hear lots of cheerleaders now touting the demise of class... | |
| Speaker Cable Recommendation What most surprised me about the Western Electric cloth covered cables is that they apparently have very wanting insulation - at least relative to a more modern understanding of what is required to to keep ambient EMF from using the cable as an an... | |
| LessLoss C-Marc Entropic Speaker Cable Entropy Defined Entropy is neither good nor bad, but it is inevitable. | |
| New speakers unveiled from Clayton Shaw - Caladan I too watched the New Record Day video yesterday with headphones. Been thinking about open baffle for quite some time now. Problem is they can't be more than about 2 feet from back wall in my living room setup which may be a deal breaker. | |
| Speaker Cable Recommendation I have been through a fair number of speaker cables - many were upper end Audioquest - and then one day bought and connectored some "Western Electric" cloth covered tinned copper 36 strand 10 gauge wire on Ebay and was astonished by how good it so... | |
| Tube sound is not about warmth. It's about correct presentation. And above I wasn't being entirely facetious. The perceived "liquidity" of tubes is a certain something hard to technologically dissect apparently. “Surfing to me is like playing music. You play different melodies with different boards.” – Skip Frye | |
| Ground Loop? Grounding Boxes This may sound really dumb, and I don't have even a smidgen of the electrical chops that the old hands on the forum have; but I was having a similar problem awhile back with some new equipment and decided to make my own DIY "groun... | |
| Tube sound is not about warmth. It's about correct presentation. "Tubular" Dudes The surfers nailed it years ago | |
| Burn in vs perception Capacitor Burn-In "This description may be leading many to wonder if they’ve been buying scrap? But the picture isn’t that bad. The capacitors are generally OK from a correct (or near correct) value point of view. It’s just that the quality of di... | |
| Burn in vs perception "We're excited about our burn-in process. Since adding it as part of the manufacturing process, our 60-day satisfaction guarantee refunds have gone from roughly 6% to less than 2%. The comments from customers went from, “They're good, but a bit re... | |
| Two questions to make you mad. Many people attending church claim that God is not really present "in the house" - that it's just a facsimile... but a reasonably good one. | |
| XLR cables for a reasonable price? I have finally settled on these XLR’s which connect a Holo Audio May to a Primaluna EVO 400 pre and also connect the Primaluna pre to an EVO 400 power amp. They are very clean and not overly sharp. The gold/silver alloy has the best sonic balance ... | |
| Preamp for a GaN-FET amp... I am extremely satisfied with my system now, but thinking futuristically I am entertaining the idea of pairing my Primaluna EVO 400 pre with a GanFet. It is currently tethered to an EVO 400 power amp with stellar results but, but, but... has any ... | |
| Not sure for power conditioner my amp or not. The Primaluna's are tube amps which explains why I don't or can't just leave them on all the time. Were these solid state amps I would want them on 24/7 to keep them warmed up. The CD transport and DAC are best left on all the time which is why I ... |