chowkwan

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Looking for high power warming sounding tube amps
Used Vacuum Tube Logic (VTL) 750 monoblocks for $7K. 750 watts per channel. https://youtu.be/_7ZGLrOpCQo https://youtu.be/xUMDlpVu98w  
Your experience of moving to two subs
One man's datapoint. Hsu VTF2 Mark IV subwoofer. (Out of production.) In TV system: one sub off to one side opposite main speakers but not in corner.. In audio system: four subs behind main speakers. No difference between one sub and four.  S... 
Sat front row at the symphony...
Flame on! Vienna is the Mecca of Music. Sat in the back corner of the Musikverein beside the organ. Could not even see the musicians. Brahms Double Concerto with the home team. The music was rich, opulent and just as good as in the stalls. That ... 
Klipsch Jubilee & Klipschorn Experience
Small room. Big power. 1250 watts per side. Pair VTL 500 on tweeter. Pair VTL 750 on bass. Todd Cochrane recorded by David Manley. https://youtu.be/sjhyR5QKKh4  
Headphones vs speakers….
Listened all night after getting B&W i5 in ear wireless headphones with an Android phone. Being freed from the wire immerses you in a sea of fabulous sound. Sennheiser TW3 if you want more bass at the expense of some transparency compared to t... 
Are There Improvements that Can Be Easily and Quickly Made Without Buying More Stuff?
Remove. Speaker. Grills.  
Songs of debauchery and excess
  Includes Whammer Jammer as in lemme hear ya Dickie!    
Whats playing on your system today?
Cosi. Jochum conducting the Berliners. Streaming on Qobuz to iFi and Campfire in ear speakers.    
Neutral Dac?
Crane Song Solaris Quantum for $2K from Sweetwater. It is the sound of analog which is diff from neutrality which you asked about but you will be totally pulled into the sound. The Nagra HD DAC is neutral based on comparing with master tape but a... 
What selections do you play when showing off your system to others?
It's fascinating what others listen to. I like to look over people's music collections. Once ear opening electronic music. Vy experimental. Vy weird. Planets Mehta LA Phil. 1st track Mars they will feel they're being invaded. And it will sound fa... 
Best sounding CD player
Nagra CD player. Separate transport and DAC which share a power supply. Musical and involving. The sound of analog. The Nagra transport made Burl DAC sound better compared to using Oppo as transport. DAC in the Nagra CD player as good as Nagra H... 
System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live
 
Ultrasonic record cleaners
Sanctus from Bach Mass in B Minor conducted by Karl Richter. First clean VPI with Walker 4 step. Second clean Audio Desk. After cleaning with the Audio Desk there is a quantum leap in sound quality compared to the VPI only cleaned record. More ... 
Ultrasonic record cleaners
Cleaned my record collection using a VPI and the Walker Four Step Process. 90% thru discovered that no one does the Fourth Step except maybe Mr. Walker. Sigh. Re cleaned VTL 006 The Doctor with an Audio Desk machine. Played Isn’t She Lovely. Way... 
Great classical pianists
@psf4972  Heard Helene Grimaud play Brahms Piano Concerto Number One in Dallas on Friday 07 October 2022. A stupendous, monumental performance with tremendous accompaniment by the Dallas Symphony conducted by their music director Fabio Luisi. The...