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| Is the appeal to euphonic distortion learned? I was absolutely transfixed by the sound coming out of affordable KLH acoustic suspension speakers before I knew they were being driven by McIntosh tubes, and I didn't know what McIntosh was. I always wondered whether it was the tubes/2nd order... | |
| Opinions wanted: 10-30K Speakers for Jazz/Folk I've had two types of planars and think you lose something with a solo voice coming off such a large membrane. I now have dynamic floorstanders with ribbon tweeters and think the wavefronts produce a greater sense of a person standing in the room. | |
| NOS Tubes - Agony or Ecstasy -Part II - The Search I thought the Sylvania JAN 231's I tried were addictively transparent but recessed in the bass. I chose a fuller sounding tube that I like better, but no longer listen for such exrended periods. Strange how I rated one tube as quantifiably bette... | |
| Streamer wanted @docknow I respect what you say above, and relate to your descriptions. Makes me anxious to try some options. I could see galvanic isolation keeping analog noise from propagating. I've just been so impressed with the sound I am getting from FL... | |
| Streamer wanted One thing that's never mentioned is that laptops run fine off of battery power. No AC issues. For less than $1500 you can have a truly high-end Windows laptop, that is absolutely overkill at getting bit-perfect datastreams from network servers to... | |
| Worst Concerts You Have Attended ?? About a year ago-Brittany Howard at the Beacon in NYC. How could you mess that up? Well, I was in the balcony, curled in fetal position with both hands over my bleeding ears. Soundcheck? Medic? | |
| Which speakers did you find bright, fatiguing or just disappointing in some way? Infinity Quantum Line Source = ear bleed. | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear Beat the Champ-- Mountain Goats | |
| NOS Tubes - Ecstasy or Agony Two of the most satisfying changes to my system are attributable to NOS tubes. The first was a NOS Mullard in the power supply of a Modwright 36.5 linestage. My jaw dropped. The second was trying NOS Sylvania and Ken Rad 6Sn7's in a VAC 200 IQ ... | |
| Wow, $10k+ cables You can go to Jay's Audio Lab (White Camaro) on YouTube and compare his recent exotic power-cord swaps to listen for differences. Out of my league, though. | |
| Remarkably better sound possible with just 1 system component change? I'd call Vintage Tube Services and see if there are tubes that would elevate that MC 2600. | |
| Tidal vs Quobuz @toro3 Thanks. I didn't even know that worked. | |
| Tidal vs Quobuz @toro3 Hmm, I asked Qobuz how to find other users' playlists and was told they were still working on that feature. I'm streaming through their Windows App. Whats the secret? | |
| Point of higher priced streamer? Maybe I missed it, but one thing missing in a lot of streaming/ external DAC discussions is buffers. The data signal processing is not like a telegraph that goes straight from signal to output. The data is assembled in buffers, whether in a PC, ... | |
| Overrated/Underrated Overrated: the audiophile creed that everything matters.Underrated: the idea that correct AWG copper wire is overkill for the job it is tasked to do in a sound system.But that's from outside audiophilia looking in. Since I have an audiophile brain... |