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| Anyone have issues dealing with Sophia Electric ? I have had good luck with 6SN7 tubes from Sophia, which are also very good. I have a friend who purchased the royal princess 300b's and a couple of 6SL7's. The 300B's were great, the 6SL7's were garbage. Sophia needs to do better for the money the... | |
| Music Server now bane of my existence You have to think computer audio is the future, and I do hope the hi rez stuff takes hold in a big enough way to establish itself. I've been planning to start building a server, but I hear too many stories like this. I have limited time. Do I want... | |
| Pre-amps with seperate power supplies ..... Unless a PC carrying DC is immune to RFI and EMR, unless the resistance of a PC is irrelevant with respect to speed and dynamics of transients, and unless the quality of the terminations is somehow also irrelevant with respect to DC, I don't know ... | |
| Driving Magnepan 1.7 I would not pair Krells with Maggies. It will give you an ear bleed. The Magtechs are a good suggestion, but both the old Cary 500MBs and the newer 500.1s are also great with Maggies. HIfiharv got to what I was trying to say. Tubes and Maggies can... | |
| Driving Magnepan 1.7 A little help on the type of music you listen to might help. But Philjolet is right, there is more to this than WPC. You can have a system that is very musical and satisfying, but may not offer the last word on dynamics. I really like what I have ... | |
| Coincident Linestage vs CJ CT5 or Allnic L-3000 Mikhai and Charlesdad, Very insightful review, which is of course, another way of saying I am in substantial agreement. A review with which I am in complete agreement is nothing short of brilliant. :)Seriously, this captures pretty well the essenc... | |
| Dedicated line w/ upgraded parts or power cond? ZD's answer is spot on. As far as I have been able to determine, this business is completely empirical. One can provide some general guidance, which Elizabeth has done, but the whole power supply thing is a case of how your unique AC is supplied t... | |
| New shipping charges at Amazon Viridian, if I follow your reasoning, I think your comment is very insightful and is something that has occurred to me as well. We all seek low prices, but in the long run, our interests may not be well served by driving prices to the lowest possi... | |
| New shipping charges at Amazon Viridian, Thanks for posting the chart showing amazon's profit margin. What scoundrels, pirates they are. Why, for the most part, they are operating in the black. Typical behavior for 1%'er's. How do they sleep at night? | |
| New shipping charges at Amazon For those who buy classical music, it is worth checking out Presto. I find that occasionally I get much better prices from them than from amazon, and you do get a discount on shipping when buying multiple items. | |
| Greatest Composers of All Time Newbee, Take a look at this. http://www.talkclassical.com/ 21995-who-your-favorite-schubertian.html. Apparently I am not alone in thinking Richter has a way with Schubert. To your question, I do not own a Richter recording of the Wanderer and only... | |
| Greatest Composers of All Time Newbee, an answer from"anyone else." I like Lewis's Schubert very much, but I like Richter's better. They are older, with dated sonics, some audience noise, but personally, its the best Schubert I've heard. Cheap too, on the alto label. Praga has ... | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD Stringreen, I agree. Everytime I play the gardiners I think I've got a tube going bad. Its a shame, because based on artistic merit these recordings are real winners. And his Missa Solemnis, despite the bad recoridng quality, is really the only on... | |
| Greatest Composers of All Time Learsfool. Bruckner made my list. I like Ives and Copland, but I would have a hard time bumping someone else off my top 15 to include one of them. Another interesting observation, by my memory, there were no British composers. I would wonder if on... | |
| Sneaky new internet tax pushing through fast Guys, people on both sides of this issue are making valid points and there is a common thread that runs through all of it. I'm telling you, it's the failure of common ascent to social contract. There is no difference between Leona Hemsley and the ... |