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| Considering a New Tube Pre-amp I'll probably raise some hackles but as nice as the Cary SLP-98 is, natural and musical, it's also thick and sluggish. Consider Tubes4HiFi SP-14. This is based on the open-source "Aikido" circuit--four 6SN7s arranged in a noise cancellation circ... | |
| New buy, no return policy @inna I disagree! $48K speakers? I want to hear them in my own space. That dealer made a...what's the markup?...$20K mistake? | |
| How to find local audiophiles When I lived in the DC/VA/MD area, I tried joining an audiophile club. Hmmmmm. One visit to a very high-end system that sounded...not very good...cured me of that impulse. That and the bragging and "competition." Fortunately, a DIY audio group was... | |
| Bose Chucks Mac I was in Best Buy last week looking for an AudioQuest cable in the Magnolia section, but they didn’t have what I wanted. A nice young man came up and asked if I needed anything. I said no, but thanks for asking. Without prompting he said, "Those c... | |
| Big Jazz Band Music with Great Sound There are a lot of great big-band recordings from the stereo era. Terry Gibbs' Dream Band. Seven CDs worth of live recordings from 1958/59 recorded by the great Wally Heider. Ellington at Newport 1956. "Accidental" stereo. Originally issued i... | |
| Best Classical Labels for Sound Cedille Records is a specialty classical label that focuses on high recording quality. I find Alpha recordings of Baroque music to be very good. | |
| George Kaye No, it’s the same George Kaye of Moscode. Lyric HiFi was Mike Kay. https://www.moscode.com/george_kaye_moscode.htm | |
| From Audio Note AN/J-D to where? A good friend of mine was just at the AN dealer in Miami today and reported that he actually preferred the J's. (So did the dealers, he told me!) But the E is modelled on a great speaker. However, consider Living Voice. Another friend has a pa... | |
| If Bi-Wiring is an option, should I choose Bi-wiring over single banana with free jumpers @soix A very reasonable answer. | |
| If Bi-Wiring is an option, should I choose Bi-wiring over single banana with free jumpers I have always bi-wired my ProAc Response 2's. They just sound better that way--deeper sound stage, more texture. | |
| I feel for you Learning to build amplifiers and preamps was one of the most satisfying things I have done in my life. And I say this as someone who has had a very satisfying career in another field entirely. Not to say that doubt doesn't creep in now and then ... | |
| Movie/film suggestions. If you like classic comedies but have seen the "usual suspects," my wife and I really enjoyed "The Devil and Miss Jones" with Jean Arthur and Charles Coburn. I thought I'd seen them all but not this one. As far as that goes, *any* Jean Arthur mo... | |
| Best Used Tube Based Preamp $2k Or Under? The SP14 is, IMO, one of the great buys in audio. Rich and linear like the Cary SLP-98 but *much* more transparent and responsive, with a quieter background. Compared to the SP14 I find the Cary a bit thick and slow, but still very musical. The Do... | |
| For Tube Folks... As a side note, watch out for eBay sellers who offer "NIB" (new-in-box) or "NOS" tubes in "original" boxes. Some of theose boxes are reprinted stock white tube boxes. You can usually tell when you see white edges outside the original labelling. ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @alexatpos Thanks! Yes, I know the Hank Jones album. And the Eddie Costa Trio recordings were released on a Fresh Sound set: https://www.discogs.com/release/10211284-Eddie-Costa-Trio-Complete-Recordings Also well worth obtaining, those these a... |