emergingsoul

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OCD mickey website and negativity.
@mikepowellaudio  hi, sorry for misspelling your name in my initial post. They don’t let you edit the title fields on this forum, only the body of the message. My hands don’t work very well and I have to dictate. your Nat amplifiers with their ... 
OCD mickey website and negativity.
OCD Mikey just released a new video. It’s a digital versus turntable rendition of John barleycorn must die. It’s been around for a really long time. Video takes place in what appears to be a customers home and these types of videos are always cool... 
OCD mickey website and negativity.
baits? I haven't been fishing in years and miss it. I do like to eat salmon a lot if I can trust where it's been caught. I need to go back to Washington where salmon still run free and wild  
OCD mickey website and negativity.
His website recommends nat and Jeff Rowland gear pretty much exclusively in amplifier and pre-amplifier areas. For speakers it's Fisher and Fisher and tad pretty much.    The nat amplifiers, on the pricey side up to nearly $100,000, contain this ... 
OCD mickey website and negativity.
He seems to ignore a lot of very good gear that's out there and tends to be in a very narrow product line.  I'm not sure what to make of what he offers and it all seems on the lower end price Side.   Hard to say whether he's trying to make money ... 
Seeking Honest Opinions: Your Experience with McIntosh Audio Gear
I use the MC 901 mono amplifiers which allows me to biamp my speakers. The speakers are B&W and I use transparent cables and power cords and and an above average pre-amplifier and streamer dac. I don't use mcintosh pre-amplifier because I hate... 
Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact?
And maybe if the manufacturers did a better job putting better quality tubes in the amplifiers when manufactured the demand on the industry would be to produce better tubes. Manufacturers spend a lot of money designing their amplifiers and then s... 
Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact?
I don’t know why manufacturers of expensive tube amplifiers don’t provide better tubes in their equipment. Lots of people form opinions about amplifiers and if these amplifiers came with better tubes peoples impressions would be a lot better.   ... 
Acoustical treatment to minimize exterior noises?
@whart  Great suggestions. Thank you Never knew tone arms had compressors.   
Ways to make your digital streaming sound better
How do I use fibre for my home theatre when I have an Apple TV box? I use an AV processor and have all the fibre gear but the Apple TV box don't allow optical. My streamer/dac has optical but I can't split the HDMI signal so the audio signal can... 
Amp — Leave on or turn off
Being environmentally responsible is out of favour. So leave it on all the time if you don't care about the planet like most everyone else.  
Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact?
Seems to me the preamplifier tubes Carry the most weight when dealing with the sonic signature. It's at the beginning and why would you not want to amplify a quality signal right away. If you have a crappy preamplifier tube it's going to get ampli... 
Finally upgrading my amp
I would buy a dog if you don't mind walking him every night. Never cats  
Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact?
@macg19 Audiotubes.com He’s got a very interesting website with lots of commentary. Further his prices are incredibly expensive. Return policy is alluring but from a practical standpoint I doubt many even returning tubes because of the difficul... 
Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact?
I think mcIntosh is JJ tubes for stock. These tend to be generally cheaper and may be more reliable which may be why they use them. I guess if they put in better tubes they see a lot of problems with people complaining about malfunctioning tubes ...