ed_sawyer
Responses from ed_sawyer
| How come that NOS is better them NS new stock ? This has been covered in detail both here and @ AA. Suffice to say these are the facts:NOS are better, in basically all cases. (I have come across one new production tube that betters any NOS version, but that's it. And I have thousands of tubes.)... | |
| Anyone heard of Soundstring cable? They were used in the Harbeth/Plinius room @ CES, among others. A rather new player in the market, I think. Unique wooden-body RCA plugs, from what I could see. -Ed | |
| Norah Jones CD NOT copy protected - Media Player Is the bonus track at full resolution or some sort of streamed/MP3/proprietary format? Anyone? -Ed | |
| Nora Jones new CD -- Copy Protection -- YIKES Here's a way we could circumvent this problem, and send a message to bluenote and their owners. Someone buys a copy and cracks it then burns the AIFF/WAV files on to a CD-R. We pass that around via postal mail, each person burning themselves a cop... | |
| Nora Jones new CD -- Copy Protection -- YIKES I'll be buying it soon and will try it on my (older and newer) Macs. I havent' run into any CD's yet that I haven't been able to copy if so desired. (even ones that were supposedly copy protected.) With a little research it can be seen that the re... | |
| Too many tubed components in the system? Nothing to worry about. Tube Phono stage -> tube preamp -> tube monoblocks: it sounds great. -Ed | |
| avantgarde loudspeakers AGoon - Depends on the Fraction. ;-) For me, the path has led to parts from Bruce Edgar, vintage drivers (RCA, JBL) and modern ones (TAD, fostex tweeters), along with vintage woofers (Altec, EVM) though modern TAD's may work there too (1601C I thi... | |
| avantgarde loudspeakers They are better than most commercial horn designs, and not bad in their own right certainly, but they really they don't hold a candle to state-of-the-art in no-compromise DIY horn speaker designs and implementations. (esp. if factoring in price.)-Ed | |
| A really dumb tube question no. | |
| Equitech 1.5Q or Shunyata Hydra 8? Yes. | |
| 300B Tubes - Which is Best? 3 gain stages. No amp (save for a couple DIY ones I know of) have multiple choices for output tubes, with one acting as a mid-stage booster amp in the manner you described. input->driver->output or driver->driver->output is how the Car... | |
| 300B Tubes - Which is Best? Dweller - no. it's a 3-stage amp.-Ed | |
| What is the best tube for a Conrad Johnson I have a pair of NOS EL34 teles. the rare(r) type with the small wings on each plate. Feel free to email if interested. $100/ea is a steal for real NOS West german teles. (not RFT, etc.), and these will be more than that. Factory matched pair w/or... | |
| 300B Tubes - Which is Best? Keep in mind the Cary 805 uses the 300b as a driver tube not an output tube. Just an FYI for others. -Ed | |
| Most Refined? Plinius 102 - Bryston 4B - Pass 250 Speakers make more of a difference in overall sound than amps do, IMHO. -Ed |