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| Lumen streamer operation question I haven’t used Lumin all that much, mostly to test BubbleUPnP and Minimserver. If you tap on the song title there will be little icons that mean "Play now," "Play next" and "Play last". They’re lines with a play arrow on top or in between. You can... | |
| Sviatoslav Richter. Greatest pianist of the last century? +1 on Gieseking, though it's a crime that Walter Legge recorded him on such blowsy, antiquated equipment. There are very few recordings that convey the glory of his tone. Also, I enjoy Trifonov a lot. But I confess that I don't "get" Richter. ... | |
| Advice on Sterling LS3/6 I’m glad you enjoy it. I kept my demo long enough for a audiophile friend with far better ears to hear it, and he could hear the effects clearly, even in my sub-optimal room. I’d forgotten about Quicksilver, that’s a nice little "KISS" amp and th... | |
| Advice on Sterling LS3/6 BTW, how do you like the Bacch system? I demoed it, and Edgar couldn't have been nicer or more helpful, but apparently balanced ears are a requirement and I have significant high-frequency loss in my left ear, a congenital thing. Because of this... | |
| Advice on Sterling LS3/6 You're welcome. A well-restored Fisher 500c is, IMO, a musical instrument in its own right, with a midrange of exceptional beauty. The 400 is nice too, though not as refined (IMO). The Scotts are a bit on the "sweeter" side, if that's what you ... | |
| Advice on Sterling LS3/6 I'm a tube guy but I wouldn't be in a hurry to find a tube amp for those under $2000. ;-) I used to own the Spendor LS3/5's and I found they mated well with a very well-restored vintage tube amp of around 30 wpc. I've heard other Spendors with s... | |
| PSVANE Discussion & Impressions Thread It would be nice to have a real KT66. :-) | |
| PSVANE Discussion & Impressions Thread I would love to see a KT66! | |
| Warm, yet detailed tube preamp An assembled SP14 with remote is a terrific value for under $2K, IMO. The SP14 board is the same one Don Sachs used for years and it's very well designed, with regulated filament and high-voltage supplies. I've also found that the specific opera... | |
| Warm, yet detailed tube preamp Yes, that looks like a very nice design, and not as expensive as I thought. Wonder what the harmonic cancellation sounds like (assuming it’s a push-pull topology). I still think the Aikido is one of the "great ideas" of audio and considering how c... | |
| Warm, yet detailed tube preamp The SLP-98 is a nice preamp, but somewhat hampered, IMO, by the simple parallel 6SN7 configuration and the stock output capacitors. I tried many tube and cable combinations with mine and achieved decent results, but by comparison the Aikido 6SN7 ... | |
| Warm, yet detailed tube preamp "I've never heard the Cary SLP98, but I, personally, do not consider my SLP05 to be warm." I have a Cary SLP98 and it is warm, but also rather thick and sluggish, and was replaced by my own version of a Don Sachs-style Aikido 6SN7 preamp, which i... | |
| Qobuz Connect working Beta demonstration....yay! Unless I'm mistaken, Chromecast is limited to 24/96 resolution, whereas Qobuz goes up to 24/192, which matters to some people. Also, there are more expensive and sophisticated streamers on the market that many audiophiles prefer. To be able to u... | |
| Why I don't hear bass drums on Jazz LPs? Ralph Collier was a very fine and very tasteful drummer you don’t hear much about today. He played with Goodman, Kenton and Bob Crosby, among others. He could really swing a band and used the kick drum sparingly but to excellent effect. There are... | |
| Why I don't hear bass drums on Jazz LPs? Vintage jazz recordings are not particularly noted for their bass reproduction. Even the string bass is poorly recorded in a lot of them. For one thing, those recordings are fairly heavily compressed, dynamically speaking. They were meant to be... |