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| 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... | |
| Does it have to sound good for you to like it? "We take turns meeting at each member’s home, allowing each member to host and present/share their music, food, wine/drinks and good company. Most of the members have various consumer-level listening stations: AV receivers, Bluetooth soundbars and... | |
| Eversolo A6/A8 I have a friend who loved Primephonic and briefly switched to Apple Classical but was frustrated by the lack of good streaming options. He has since switched to Qobuz and has no regrets. You have what is considered a very decent streamer. Rathe... | |
| Solid State Power Amps I rarely see folks in the US mention YBA gear, but years ago I sold it an audio shop and always felt very confident recommending it, especially with Focal speakers. We sold quite a few setups with that combination. It has a lively, sweet tube-like... | |
| Does it have to sound good for you to like it? Years ago I performed a series of music/spoken-word concerts with a local symphony orchestra. The conductor walked me through the music on a boom box. At the time I thought it odd that a musician wouldn’t have a nice stereo, but then I realized th... | |
| Summer Power Issues Ditto on the Furman. I use an M8X AR, which will handle 15 amps. Last summer my line voltage dropped as low as 113VAC, and my tube amps and tube preamp really suffered. The Furman keeps it at 118-120, and I have not felt it affected the sound. ... | |
| Does it have to sound good for you to like it? "Well, I guess it was good to get all those opinions off your chest. If only they had the least bit connection to what I actually said." I took your comment for what it appeared to be saying. It's certainly good to have some clarification. ;-) | |
| Does it have to sound good for you to like it? @rok2id As a classical music lover, I too would take issue with the notion that it's "just the same music played over and over by different ensembles." This is no more true of classical music than it is of any other genre. It's rather like say... | |
| Does it have to sound good for you to like it? I’m a big fan of historical recordings, both jazz and classical, so sound quality has always been a secondary consideration for me. That said, even I have my limits, which stop somewhere well short of Edison cylinders. ;-) But my musical life woul... | |
| Tube preamp topologies and music Most single-ended tube amplifiers have relatively high output impedance a) because only one output device is being used and b) because they usually don’t use feedback, which also contributes to higher output impedance and poorer damping factor. Yo... | |
| Watts! How many do we need? "I was using a 10 watt class A amp to drive a pair of Super Tablettes (86 db I think) in a 13x14 listening room with zero issues. So then I thought, "What the hell!" and put in my 2A3 integrated amp. Still no issues and the speakers sound great." ... |