decooney
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| Best Used Tube Based Preamp $2k Or Under? @nightfall Thanks also to those who have recommended Cary SLP-98’s, another unit I was considering, though they seem to be selling a bit over my $3k limit. And the Modwright LS100 is also a great recommendation you provided. I once owned on... | |
| PSVANE Mfg Co replaced my older 6SN7 CV-181 TII tubes @marco1 maybe we can talk offline later about some your Qs. In short, my replacements were referred to as "Art Series" by one of the leaders at PSV Mfg who approved my replacement and ensured I received a good tested matched pair. They do not hav... | |
| PSVANE Mfg Co replaced my older 6SN7 CV-181 TII tubes @marco1 will be curious if they open up a little more in the next few weeks or not. My new replacement PSVANE 6SN7s sound a little better in my tube preamp after a tad more time on them. They are not overly uber-detail, which is great for my ta... | |
| Looking for advise regarding Rogue M180’s @buellrider97 ...I was considering Quicksilver before I went low power and Mike Sanders stated they need 100 wpc with tubes. At the time the KT monos were 50-60 watts ? He strongly recommended the 100 watt monos... There are several different v... | |
| I find myself "tuning out" anymore.....is the magic fading? Step away from all of it for six months. Find another hobby to enjoy to fill in for a while. I did this a year ago for different reasons. It helped to enjoy it again later. | |
| An Audio Conversation with ChatGPT @atmasphere You can’t hear the ’transition’ and the amp isn’t any more linear in the ’class A’ region than it is a few Watts above that. Good to know and I’ve wondered about this, and any discernible differences just before / during / after tra... | |
| Looking for advise regarding Rogue M180’s To @buellrider97 I just read the specs of the 4312A, https://jblpro.com/en-US/site_elements/4312a-information Apologize, I missed which speaker you would use above with the Rogue amp, and assumed you were using the efficient ZUs, and flew right b... | |
| Looking for advise regarding Rogue M180’s @buellrider97 message received, I replied with a separate message as Agon has the Cc policy I wont use nor care to for security reasons. Anyhow, reading the thread, IF you did decide to send the Rouge in, and you mentioned your others system wi... | |
| Need a little help @spoonman16510 Still confused Share more. What part of the replies are you still confused about? Several replies above trying to restate the same thing for you, so it's best to come straight out and share what does not yet make sense or crea... | |
| At the top of the line is it really all that different? I found it helpful to attend a few different audio shows to see and hear the low/medium/high level gear. What can be most promising are the rooms with less expensive gear that sounds great. Then get to know the Co owners, designers, and talk with ... | |
| Does anyone listen to the radio anymore? Yep. Fire up the FM tuner in the early a.m while warming up the rest of the system. While warming streamer, dac, preamp, amplifiers playing some local FM music. | |
| All-in-One units for retiring audiophile & music lovers in 2025, say what? For @kennyc a photo or two. "+1 Cabasse Rialto - heard it twice at audio shows" | |
| Need a little help @spoonman16510 I read that an external preamp can be hooked up to an av receiver, how would I do that?? You have what you need using the 1:3 splitter recommendation and keeping the Pioneer avr out of the mix for many reasons others have sug... | |
| Impedance - The most ignored and useful measurement tool I wonder how many of us try fixing something we hear as undesirable using other methods in/around the system and while not understanding the speaker impedance first. Re-tracing old steps, I ran into a situation last week about this, also realiz... | |
| Tidal SQ Issues Played Tidal on 16-bit and 24/192 modes both past three weekends in a row. No issues. I don't use or want MQA. |