brianlucey
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| Has anyone bought the Psvane Acme 300B Vacuum Tube? Allnic A-6000 monos running 8 x 300B XLS for 12 hours a day for many years with no issues ... and light wear on the tubes (Amplitrex AT-1000 tested). How do the 1980/2000s or modern Western Electric 300Bs compare to BXLS? | |
| Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It @kota1 100% of people don't prefer anything, I don't care if it's chocolate over nuts or sex over being alone, and I certainly don't prefer live music to being in my studio. your approach is not good for the format that you're trying to be goo... | |
| Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It @kota1 A. I have 50 ch of analog processing and that is NOT an analog immersive setup. B. There is no contest between stereo and atmos/spatial, they are parallel deliverables, so please leave me out of your agenda :) My stereo speakers are Evoluti... | |
| Magico's M9 @pennfootball71 what you’re saying is that they chose to make a speaker for $25,000 that’s not very good because the cabinet cost 20,000, but they didn’t choose to make one for 30 or 35,000 instead that would’ve actually been good? None of this ma... | |
| Magico's M9 Having heard the Magico A5 only, is was not worth the ask. | |
| $50k - $80k Budget…Opinions please. Obvious idea is redo what you had ! Alternatively, do what I use here for mastering every style daily. Evolution MM3 +Exact (used $23,000 +Exact), Allnic Audio A-6000 linear tube amps (used $10,000). DA options are Berkley Audio Design Ser III, B... | |
| High powered single end 300b recommendations @rooze has it ... the Allnic A-6000 are 60W a side with 4 x 300BXLS in parallel, and sound incredible, in the top 0.1% of all amps in any category. Best I have ever heard vs. very costly others. The soft start means the power tubes will last a dec... | |
| What is Your Opinion of Atmos Music? @kota1 yeah so that's incorrect. For listening to Atmos, you have two general categories of options, Apple Music and Amazon/tidal. The latter uses the Dolby Binaural, which has the 3d data included in the streaming file which means it can play on... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @kota1 respectfully I will add a few things to your post… I’m a musician long before being a decorated engineer. I’m looking at a 1930 Mason Hamlin double B that’s one of the best pianos in the world, and a room full of instruments that are mine a... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @mjoslin13 Again perfectionism is an imaginary ideal. It’s a narcissism of our own imagination. There is no perfection. And in music production there are no mistakes. Teams of people make choices. Positive compromises. Your mind is on display in e... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @donavabdear This statement is from idealism and perfectionism which are fear based, and this statement is false. "ultimately sound being recorded as accurately as possible rather than sounding better subjectively is best practice." You’re trying ... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @thespeakerdude A few things, 1. flat is not useful or preferred. We like a little low bump and high end cut, assuming a pivot at 1k. Flat responses leaves people with no way of working except fear based perfectionism, which is antithetical to gre... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @donavabdear you bought a brand. Not a great set up. Sorry to say. I’m happy to suggest DAC amp / headphones options given a number. For 8000 you can do better. | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @kota1 I never took headphones seriously either until Atmos. It's really important to understand that we do not have any releases in this format that represent the highest end of the format. Early days. I'm working in the format every day right ... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @mijostyn sadly you’re not only wrong you’re wildly overconfident. There is nothing accurate about sound reproduction anywhere. Not your ears. Not any system. It’s all degrees and taste. Dogma is dangerous in life and in audio. Right or wrong is d... |