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The final solution to WAF problems / issues.
So he is, Esoxhntr, he even wanted to know, if the step up stage is induced by a dose of Sidenafil, figure that! 
Is Sony SCD-1 still worth to possess?
If you don't need to run balanced interconnects, the Sony XA777ES comes very, very close and easily supercedes the SCD-1 performance and that of most others as well under $25.000 in my opinion (redbook and SACD) if modded by the Audience people. (... 
The final solution to WAF problems / issues.
I wanted to order two dozen pairs to treat shoe-fetishists with, but our chief physician, who is Freudian, found the purse amp politically not correct and clearly pornographic. So what can you do....)-; 
Tubes-Uninformed Buyers??
You are quite right, Sugarbrie. I've been buying heavily through eBay for myself and local friends here and have rarely been disappointed. Especially German and most of the US sellers with good feedback can indeed be trusted. The measurements they... 
Great pics from Stereophile show
Thanks Twilo for sharing. Cheers, Detlof 
Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive?
1.Beemer M5 Station version, 1997 (in order to transport big ELS speakers really fast!)2. Audi RS6 3. Bughatti/ Lamborghini Miura S 
I am looking for an FM antenna amplifier
There is an excellent one, made by Magnum Dynalab, called the Signal Sleuth. As it happens , there is one offered here at A. Look under http://cgi.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cl.pl?misctunr&1028827506&class&3&4&.No, I don't know the s... 
Vinyl Old timers: HK's and Rabco's
Sean, if memory does not trick me, I also recall the Rabco as having had a tube and not " a flatter piece of metal ", as you say.Detlof 
How to test those NOS tubes
Thanks Fletch! In the meantime I've realised this for myself. Throw them into your pre or pre-pre and listen. I've now got a Funke W-19 (Similar to the famous Hickock Cardmatic) where I can match tubes as closely as possible before testing them in... 
The most erotic passages in classical music
Mingus and Ramstl seem a tad one track minded. They obviously missed the point, that his thread is not about sex, but about music. Aw well....coitus, like beauty is obviously in the eye or mind of the beholder. 
12ax7's
I've just put four Tele E803CCs in my Jadis pre-pre and they are indeed much quieter than the best of the normal ECC83 Teles I had used so far. They also seem to provide for an even better defined and tight low-end. 
12ax7's
Fletchj is right on the money. I prefer the rich, warm sound of the Teles, personally. I've tried all the other mentioned above and I fully agree with Fletch's description. Cheers, 
The most erotic passages in classical music
Ivanj, Danke DIR! I was also thinking of the scene, when Siegmund meets Sieglinde, in the second part of the Ring, after his rush through the forest, and the two become attracted to each other. The sweetness of the music there, in contrast to the ... 
Musical Healing
Does it make your blood curl or do the piles just drop off, because they are so bored? (-; 
The most erotic passages in classical music
Thanks Yul and how lusty that is! I must dig it up again.Cheers,