carlsbad2
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| Western Electric 300B problem Have you compared EMLs? I use those in my dac. where do you buy your ACMEs? | |
| Western Electric 300B problem I had a heater die (go open) lately on an 80 year old tube. | |
| Western Electric 300B problem pops and tings can happen the first time a tube heats up. Loss of vaccuum is the correct diagnosis. Sounds like a bathtub curve infant failure. Most tubes don’t make an unusual smell when heated up but I’ve never heated up a new Westinghouse. If ... | |
| Streaming Leads to Brain Rot Lost me when I saw "newyorker" in the link didn't even click. | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato I only listen to contemporay music at the gym. I don't know the last time I heard a voice that wasn't electronicly modified. It is hardly music at all. | |
| Solid state amp that tube fan can be happy with? Not likely. Man up and accept whatever is bothering you about tube amps. I'd replace your EL34 amps with a nice DHT amp. Aric, Apollo, Decware, etc. | |
| Am I crazy to upgrade? Love your plan. Those speakers are special. I agree with @erik_squires on Marantz. He recommended Marantz to me and I am very happy. Talk to Brandon Wade at Apollo audio systems. He owns Ulfs and also makes some nice high power SET amps tha... | |
| Help for me, money for you. So I recommend not using the onboard core. I have an Innuos Zenith MK3 (not in use right now) and the core is not implemented well. I used an external ROCK core (which I'll be listing for sale soon) which sounded much better. Innuos works bette... | |
| Streamer apps critical Roon | |
| Found A Roon Core Streamer Only Solution with Top Notch Sound Quality Looks like a good product. I ran Roon ROCK on my onw I7 NUC for years and was happy although it is not fanless, I had it acousticly pretty much isolated. Still I would have preferred fanless. All that said, a fast cpu isn't really needed for th... | |
| budget AES/EBU? the Carbon is a fairly good cable and is silver plated which is a non-negotioable with me for digital. But I can highly recommend the Audio Sensibility Signature SE silver cable. I use that between my Grimm Streamer and my Lampizator DAC. with ... | |
| Neutral preamplifier recommendation $1K new No such thing. consider a passive preamp, transformer based is best. | |
| Selecting Rear Surrounds for 5.1 system I use floorstanders for both side and rear surrounds. Big sound if your spouse supports it. | |
| SL-1200 G Power cable TT uses very little current and does't have large current need changes like an amp. Your amp will need a heavy power cord and should not be restricted by the Niagra 1200. TT is fine as is. | |
| Music with Titles that get you to think "Sticky Fingers", While doing a 19 mile trail run yesterday I realized that ultra runners have sticky fingers about half the time from drops of energy drink or handling open packs of energy gel. I think that must have been what the Rolling Stone... |