curiousjim
Responses from curiousjim
| How much hum is normal from a new tube amp @blue-magoo None! In time you might get a hum from a transformer, but you should never get a hum from the amplifier itself. | |
| Leaving my amplifier on ok? @bigtwin When we think we are turning off our Hegel’s we are actually turning them to standby and that keeps the Caps charged up. It’s also the reason we don’t have to wait but a few minutes to hear the best sound from our rigs. Now something I... | |
| Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile? @audioguy85 Posting pictures of your system in your profile area is the only place you can upload pictures without having a picture sharing program. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Harry Allen, How Long Has This Been Going On? | |
| Tune of the Day Toby Beau, My Angel Baby. | |
| DAC Under $3000 Look at either a Denafrips Venus ll or a used Terminator ll. You won’t be disappointed. | |
| Tube Preamp: How many tubes does it take to ................. My ARC SP9 MKll has one tube for the line stage part and one tube for the Phono section. | |
| External DAC? @moose89 I have the Node N130, the newest one before the X and I also have a Bifrost Dac and I also have a Denafrips Pontus ll dac that is far better than the BiFrost. I think depending on how much you want to spend, you can make that Node sound... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @boxcarman My story and most of the names are the same. Late seventies, Weather Report, Bob James, Earl Klugh Lee R. etc. My tastes have expanded over the years and I’ve been having great fun exploring various old timers and a few young bloods. ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados And it’s small print! My poor old eyes!👀 | |
| Jazz for aficionados @stuartk You could have warned me that the Penguins guide was over 1600 pages long! I haven’t read a book that big since collage! 😁😁😁 | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Blood Sweat And Tears, Greatest Hits. | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Steely Dan, Two Against Nature. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Steely Dan, Two Against Nature. | |
| Tune of the Day Frozen Ghost, Should I See. |