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| Music that has good cymbals Ramsey Lewis & Nancy Wilson on "Meant To Be" will fit the bill in every way...I use it for the same purpose as I evaluate various tubes. Sonics & music are VERY good. The cymbals 'sparkle'. Amazon.com or half.com will have used copies cheap. | |
| Budget Power Cords For Tube Mono Amps ? dopog...sorry, not sure why.If you google "bob crump asylum" the first hit (on audiotweaks.com) is it. It's a nice, clear description of assembling the Crump cord. | |
| Budget Power Cords For Tube Mono Amps ? Look into the Bob Crump (RIP) Asylum cord, see the link below. This will take you about 15 minutes to assemble & should work very well. I'm running 5 of them. This is a shielded cord with a drain wire.Cryoparts.com has the cyro'd wire & co... | |
| To Former owners of Jolida JD 100 ditto Sam's & Distortion's comments on the Jolida responding to tube rolling. I've had a have dozen different sets in mine and it wasn't hard to note differences. Yes, some were subtle differences, but others were hard to miss. Best tubes so f... | |
| Bill Evans Village Vanguard 3CD set Do you know of another recording of this same music that has it mixed better...or do we just have to enjoy it with a "vintage" hat on? The recording itself does sound OK...although the mixing sounds like a "stereo effect" overachiever was on the c... | |
| best sub $1000 amp to mate with tube preamp Can't speak for the other suggestions, but the tube pre(TAD 150) & McCormack DNA-1 deluxe sounds sweet to my ears...running 86dB speakers with no effort, nor needing anythng over 10 o'clock on the volume knob. | |
| 'Racks'. Important? Best bang for $$? Good discussion here. I often wonder with regard to this topic whether materials like those from Soundown would have some use. http://www.soundown.com/AI.htmI've used it in boats to deaden sound from engines. | |
| Speaker disappearing act? I'd agree with Lissnr & Mitch...I have Snell Type A's, which I think fill the definition of a large speaker, and they often completely disappear. This isn't the case with every recording, but more often than not. I still have some speaker-plac... | |
| Best Budget Silver/Silver-Blend Interconnects? If you're DIY capable at all then the Chris Venhaus silver IC's are very nice. They're also easy to make. | |
| CD Buying Guide??? Imin2u,Slightly off topic here, but which issues of Cat Stevens are good? I saw Cat on CBS Sunday Morning yesterday...hadn't heard his music for 20+ years, but liked it back then & would like to pick up a couple CDs today.As for the catalog of... | |
| Acoustical Solutions or Auralex LENRD bass traps Shad...There is a ton of info out there, but I think the basics as as you've described them are pretty close to the mark. Ethan Winer is a good source & everything I've read from him keeps pounding on the same basic approaches. However, not be... | |
| Acoustical Solutions or Auralex LENRD bass traps You may want to check out the following links. If you're in to simple DIY you can equal or better about anything commercially available.http://forum.studiotips.com/viewtopic.php?t=536This one illustrates the relative cost of room treatment normali... | |
| My Jolida 100 skips even on new cds. How to fix? I'd have to agree with Distortion...trash Bartokfan & keep the Jolida.If there is one opinion I've seen over & over about the Jolida CDP is that it's VERY forgiving on poor recordings or beat up CDs. Unlike bartok, I've owned a Jolida for ... | |
| Who has Caps on their AC lines ??? There is quite a bit of discussion on this on the tweaks board over at audio asylum...start with a search on "auricap". The lack of AC rating is also discussed often. There are AC-rated caps that work well in this application. | |
| Home made cable lifters. I have tried red monofilament...but I kept hearing pink noise. |