czarivey
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| Basic Music Purchase Question downloaded version always will sound better than streamed version. | |
| AI (Audiogon Intelligence) Audiogon Intelligence??? What are you really talking about. It is a lot farther away than distance to Jupiter!! | |
| Mysterious power tube behavior Only if it's in PushPull setup or "cold bias". It won't work single-ended. I would test an input resistor usually 1k and it's between ground and pin5 on bad tube. In case with KT77 it should show value, but if in case there's no value in 6l6, th... | |
| OCD mickey website and negativity. Pizza bloggers work same pretty much roaming around nation and tasting pizza bites on YT. | |
| Mysterious power tube behavior That tube probably have bias circuit open. Therefore no current you can read there. The reason that tube works is simply because for push-pull amps most tubes are "cold biased" to like 50mV anyways. | |
| The Emperor Has No Clothes!! @mdalton Some audiophiles here have either diminished or depleted sense of humor and might not understand or take any jokes. The best remedy for that is just knowing that absence of sense of humor is some sort of mental disorder or incapability. | |
| Let the best be your guide EQ sometimes helps if too many poor sounding records. | |
| Free air, tighter bass - snake oil or cheap tweaks? I often cover bass cabinets of my Aerial 10t with furniture blanket. Bass control this way is simply INCREDIBLE My speakers are loaded with lead shot on the bottom. I also use solid platform so they don't stand on carpet floor. Another cheap twe... | |
| for Technics SU-R1000 owners....unit already discontinued? where to service? Sometimes you can refer to the particular time differently without mentioning specific calendar date or dates. For example: 40 pounds ago... Referring to the time all sorts of different ways should not be a problem whether it has or hasn’t any id... | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? I benefit from speakers being quiet when on standby so I'd stay away from very efficient ones. Need to be between middle and low for that matter. Impedance stability is somewhat more important than efficiency especially If I want to use tube amp. ... | |
| I Don't Understand What Determines When A Thread Gets The Axe I often realize that people live more free when they tolerate more and "law-enforce" less. It's a lot less spending than enforcing more and more rules. The more group of people such as nation or community or regional reasonably can tolerate, less ... | |
| for Technics SU-R1000 owners....unit already discontinued? where to service? I had same issue with $2k worth Mavic drone. Once new model in, old model is abandoned trash. Therefore I prefer living in the past(the time when girl and boy were the only 2 choices!) and get absolutely no vehicles with button start and get absol... | |
| Sound and Music ...favorite things to enjoy! | |
| Sound and Music Sound of Music is my Favorite Thing indeed! | |
| Is R.E.M. underrated by new music nerds? All I can say here conclusively, ones think they are underrated and another think that they're overrated at the end they're pretty-much average on the mean number |