bolong
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| 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 ... | |
| Hiatus I have found that my musical "judgement" is at its most accurate when listening late at night in the dark with just a hint of THC running through my brain and ears, Got my medical card last year. What the THC does is amplify focus and eliminate "m... | |
| Not sure for power conditioner my amp or not. My Primaluna EVO 400 pre and power amps are plugged directly into the Hubbel wall outlets dedicated line. Since I don't leave these tube amps on 24/7 it is easy to just leave them unplugged when not in use and when I am not around to monitor light... | |
| SNAKE OIL! A new TV Show hosted by David Spade I ran into someone about 6 months ago who was arguing that "high end music" was snake-oil. This person didn't get music - at all. Any music. | |
| They know we will pay anything they can think of I remember listening to Peter Qvortrup who runs Audio Note say that nobody in high end was making money these days. | |
| Primaluna signal tube replacement Primaluna’s stock tubes in the outer positions are fine. I have been running vintage Amperex "Bugle Boys" in the gain positions with great results. On the power amp I run A-matched EL-34's from Sophia Electric - also outstanding. |