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| A question I suspect reveals a lot of ignorance... Could anyone comment on the sound effects you hear as your power tube amp warms up? Also, what may happen if you start playing music loud with a tube power amp that has only been on for about 5 minutes (you know the impatient start to a listening ... | |
| Best String Cheese Incident CD to start with..... is there a way to download an entire album (instead of file by file)?awesome site!!!Thank you | |
| audio research LS15 preamplifier anyone else ?I recently got a hold of my former LS15 and i'm wondering about the direct vs bal with TRUE balanced inputs. I will post my findings later... | |
| Wood v. Metal for stands. Is there a clear winner? EssentialaudioI'm familiar with noise induced by vibration as far as caps go it's a phenomenon pretty much only seen in ceramic caps (from piezo electric effects). Ceramics are rarely used in high end audio gear. I have actually seen the voltage d... | |
| Wood v. Metal for stands. Is there a clear winner? DAvid12"Glass for racks sound good on first audition, but it is all colouration."ROFLMAOI have a rack where the amp sits on heavy composite wood, but the preamp, cdp, etc sit on frosted safety glass. I guess the glass adds second order distortion,... | |
| Anybody tried this ? "this is not long enough to tire of the deliberate coloration in most gear..."or lack of coloration...It ALL sounds old after we habituate... | |
| Best Preamp = No Preamp? GOOD vacuum tube preamps seem to be common with a truly captivating, inviting sound.I think we all seem to agree on that, more or less. | |
| Soldering 101 for Audiophiles my advice cwoldon is for you to buy a decent 25-45 watt iron practice on some leaded resistors and if you feel you got the hang of it tackle your tweeters.If you don't feel comfortable then pay someone to do it.Audiophile connection? now THAT is f... | |
| Best String Cheese Incident CD to start with..... Tough to find:Live at Charlottesville, I think 1999, as recorded by Trax. A great show and an even better recording direct off the soundboard.Easy to find:Round the Wheel, 1998 excellent | |
| Best Preamp = No Preamp? Jmaldonadoever hear the term synergy...?My take on the "high end sound " is the result YOU come to love after much hardware experience....synergy comes to mind...so be it if you call one component dry and and others compensating...Jmaldonado whate... | |
| Best Preamp = No Preamp? I totally agree with Undertow and Grannyring. That too has been my experience with passive and straight-into-the-amp sources...something is always missing and that something has ALWAYS translated (for me) into a flat, dry, and smaller sound than g... | |
| How does one get off the merry-go-round? Stay away from folks suggesting they left the ride :) | |
| Best CD sound: Marantz SA8001 or Rega Apollo? 4estThat is plain poo poo. The NAD M5 SACD outs sounded better than my Squeezebox driving a late model Benchmark DAC1. Not to my ears alone but the the DAC 1s owner as well as another dudes. On redbook it was much closer and would really require d... | |
| Best CD sound: Marantz SA8001 or Rega Apollo? Daltonlanny,I don't know why but very few people have anything to say about the 8001. I posted something about the 8001 about a year ago...again it was very very little (i'll just assume not many have it).ANyway I bought one last September I think... | |
| Help with Integrated Amp Choice Kfester,I have had the NAD M3 for several weeks now, and I am impressed with this amp's character. I have dynaudio s3.4s; the M3 drives the 4 ohm nominal current hungry dyns with great control and ease. I recently took a path, or I should say a di... |