carlsbad
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| And the best jazz albums of 2022 were…? @bhvf You said it better than I did. | |
| Speakers that are good with tubes @richopp Let me repeat myself. This is not a magnaplaner thread. | |
| Another cable question BTW, I forgot to mention. Some believe silver can be harsh or brash. I don't believe that. a cable does not add things. It takes things away from the signal. So if someone replaces a cable with silver and the result is harsh, then their old c... | |
| Speakers that are good with tubes @richopp We got it. You're a magnaplaner man, through and through. But I will mention that I was pursuing an electrostatic speaker system when I fell down the tube rabbit hole. My second system is still Martin Logan CLS. It wasn't until I found... | |
| And the best jazz albums of 2022 were…? ...recorded 50+ years ago? to me jazz should be relaxing and many of the new albums are trying to make jazz sound like modern pop. full disclosure: I have no use for modern pop. | |
| Cable advice All of the manufacturers would say that you should have a matched set of their cables. Once a seller sells you a set of cables, saying that having a matched set will sound even better, thus opening up many more sales. So you can see where this a... | |
| Speakers that are good with tubes @hide45 Good summary. Hopefully the OP hasn't bougth or at least married to a tube amp yet. To me they should be bought as a pair, however, there is a lot of wiggle room in choosing both. For example, I recommend an SET. However, my current ... | |
| Another cable question I'm a semi believer. I am a firm believer in quality cables and indeed all of my digital cables are silver plated copper. I think digital benefits especially from silver. Plated is adequate because of the very small size of the signal. Larger... | |
| Tube stereo sounds -smaller- after being on A couple of suggestions. I'd first swap out the tubes and see if that made a difference. Tubes heat up and generally the changes are good but not always. Not saying this is it but an obvious thing to try. On your power converter and electric... | |
| Speakers that are good with tubes @hilde45 Yes, transformers are key to tube amp performance but now you are getting into tube amp selection. The original question was about speaker selection. BTW, the transformers for my new custom tube amp are hand wound in Bulgaria. Most exp... | |
| Speakers that are good with tubes Many of the pitfalls users are describing that torpedo tube amp performance are just poor speaker design. So I'll add to my suggestions: Buy a well designed speaker. It does not have so be 8 ohms or above. My speakers are 4 ohm, but they are ... | |
| Does Anyone Have Problems Ripping CDs with Zenith?? Did you check the SN to make sure they didn’t accidentally send you back the same one? I have a Zenith MK3 and have been streaming for months, never tried to rip a CD. I’ll watch this thread and contemplate trying it soon. Jerry PS I bought it ... | |
| Did you ever buy too much bass? I've never seen a subwoofer that wasn't capable of supplying way too much bass. Whenever I've tried to integrate a sub into my system I've had to run it very near the bottom of the volume range, so much so that I've considered installing a low ra... | |
| Vinyl - One Word - WOW!! My guess is you're using a CD player with onboard DAC. Unless you go very expensive you'll be disappointed. Get a CD transport and use your high end stand alone dac...until then, keep enjoying your vinyl. Just don't want you to give up digital ... | |
| Great YouTube on Class A-A/B VS Class D Can't image what might seperate an $800 amp fro a $4000 amp. |