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| If hard drive betters optical digital retrieval Old news, the real deal is to slot a 64 gig (or bigger !) flash drive (i.e: no moving parts) into your PC of choice with a suberb usb dac, ala one of Gordon Rankins @ : http://www.usbdacs.com/or from the likes ofUltraFi- iRoc, Benchmark- DAC1 Pre,... | |
| finalists in the big speaker search Some very good points raised above, and I haven't tried Naim amplification before, but without a doubt and receiving my highest recommendation with particular consideration for vanishing ability, boundless sound stage and totally benign impedance ... | |
| Amp for Quad ESL 57 Quite true, you don't often see EAR items for sale second hand anywhere...for once you own them, you come to appreciate how very special they are at dare I say it, becoming musical instruments,however there is an EAR 859 on the'Gon right now, and ... | |
| Amp for Quad ESL 57 Well frankly it's not how much power you throw at the 57's, which is where many go completely wrong....they can only handle so much to start with, I've tried 80wrms PP tube grunt which did not even remotely do any justice to what these remarkable ... | |
| Amp for Quad ESL 57 Any of the Esoteric Audio Research amps will sound marvellous with the Quads, other than being built in the same home town, the designer, Tim De Parvicini voices his amps with Quads and winds his output transformers to optimally deal with the wild... | |
| Amp for Quad ESL 57 Any of the Esoteric Audio Research amps will sound marvellous with the Quads, other than being built in the same home town, the designer, Tim De Parvicini voices his amps with Quads and winds his output transformers to optimally deal with the wild... | |
| EAR 300b amplifier It was a 300B kit Tim De Paravicini designed for Hi-Fi World of U.K near the end 80's or early 90's, which was later revised by Andy Grove. Excellent transformers as per Tims usual, but he never was really nuts about the 300B and thus did not purs... | |
| EAR 864 V1 V3 Tube Type From my experience, the ECC82 has a greater influence, but YMMV | |
| EAR 864 V1 V3 Tube Type The tube closest to the front is the 12AU7, when I had my 864, after much rolling of NOS tubes, I ended up with an awesome combination: Tesla (Not JJ) ECC802S in the 12AU7 position and a 60's Amperex 12AX7A...have fun rolling ! | |
| Sophia Electric's 845M vs. SuperTNT 845M ? I spoke to them about this, their metal plate 845 are actually 845C, which is not the same as the Super TnT 845M, the C has lower dissipation, which may or may not be suitable for your amp/s...check your amp manufacturers specs.Apparently Super Tn... | |
| 2A3 vs. 845 Well put, but most certainly I put it down principally to circuit design and implementation, I've heard a very expensive 300b amp sound like mush and on the same system another apparently lesser 300b amp have such an incisive fast and honed presen... |