chilehed
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| Tube Rolling Advice for the Backert Labs Rhumba Extreme? Hi jsqt,I upgraded from the Rhumba 1.2 to the 1.3 Extreme a few months back and happier I could not be. With both of these units I saw a marked improvement in sound after just 30 or so hours with the stock tubes. Andy Tebbe at Backert mentioned it... | |
| Great Male Vocals--Walter Wolfman Washington Sure thing, are you familiar with Doyle Bramhall ii? If not, check out the album "Rich Man". His roots are deep in the blues but this album really stretches the boundaries and brings in many other influences. There are so many beautiful sounds and... | |
| Great Male Vocals--Walter Wolfman Washington Another good one... same genre, Bobby Rush, "Sitting On Top Of The Blues". Perhaps not quite the nuance and detail as the WWW record but it is close. The quality of the songs and sonic's are excellent. | |
| Great Male Vocals--Walter Wolfman Washington @jbhiller, +1 on this album, this is a good one. I cued it up for a buddy of mine and the look he shot me during the intro of the first track was absolutely priceless....talk about palpable, WWW is right there! Great quality all around. | |
| DIY Audio Rack [*fail*] @noromance and @michaelgreenaudio,I am just a couple years back in the hobby after being away too long so setup is new and simple. My main rig is Bluesound Vault2 source that I use to stream my CD library and also subscribe to Tidal hi-res. I use... | |
| DIY Audio Rack [*fail*] Hi Michael,I can remove the damping material easily enough and will give that a try. I got the pine slabs from a local mill and have seen no movement (expansion / contraction). The fellow I bought them from told me they were dry and it seems he wa... | |
| DIY Audio Rack [*fail*] noromance, thanks for the feedback. Were you able to mod your original design by adding spikes, maple, slate or did you purchase a rack? Also, I considered granite but read some place that it can be tricky too. | |
| Paradigm Personas: A First Listen Interesting, recently did a similar bake-off over a couple of weekends. Listened to Spendor, Kef, Bryston, Aerial and Paradigms. For me it came down to the Aerial 7Ts and Paradigm 3fs. I listened to both for hours and was able to A-B them on track... |