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| Doe you enjoy your listening to music and your system more with others or alone? Listening alone allows for complete control over everything. For myself I’m almost relieved when other people have left. It’s not as enjoyable when others are around,almost irritating in a way. Too many distractions or annoying requests: you shoul... | |
| Best tube preamplifier for under $15k The best one under 15k is the one that sounds best to you. Asking others a question like this is like asking someone what’s the best tasting pie under $15.People tastes differ not only in what they like to hear, but also in what they like to eat. | |
| Just received my new Luxman CL-1000 pre-amp. Phono stage is unbelievable in CL-1000. I was wary since I’d be replacing the Luxman eq500 for it, but it’s a step up from the eq500 in every way. Much quieter and better focus are the main improvements. I know it has a lot to do with the line st... | |
| Doe you enjoy your listening to music and your system more with others or alone? Big typo, should say Do you.....Embarrassing. Thought I proofread it. | |
| Just received my new Luxman CL-1000 pre-amp. Kingsley, what you had was the C-1000 not the CL-1000. It only looks like the CL-1000. Sonically they couldn’t be more different. Besides being a tube pre-amp the CL-1000 was designed around transformer coupled volume control.Also SOTA parts imple... | |
| How would you power Wilson Audio Sasha or Alexia II? Definitely Luxman, Why? Luxman M900u has ability to double down to one ohm.Both speakers you described have a reactive load. In other words, it’s all over the place and needs an amplifier that can handle the dips and peaks related to phase and imp... | |
| Just received my new Luxman CL-1000 pre-amp. I’m running it with a M900U amplifier and Clearaudio innovation turntable with universal tone arm. Other components as follows: Luxman d08u CD player, kiseki Purple Heart NS, Focal Maestro 111 speakers, PS audio P20.The CL-1000 breaths life into w... | |
| Audio Research Ref 6 SE Companies aren’t going to disclose to the general public when a new product is going to be launched for the reason retailers would not be able to sell remaining stock of the current model. This is especially true for retailers of hiend audio who h... | |
| Why don’t tube amps sound like tubes anymore? It’s funny how in this modern age of technology we haven’t been able to match or even surpass the quality of yesterday’s ( NOS ) tubes. I guess that has something to do with the lack of need for high standard tubes for military and other technolog... | |
| Why don’t tube amps sound like tubes anymore? I’m wasn’t talking about overly warm, slow, tubby sound of vintage designs of yesterday, when I asked the question in the original post. What I said I wasn’t hearing when listening to modern tube designs is the life and breath that tubes are know... | |
| TriangleArt Electronics I’ve a friend who’s running all their equipment. Build quality is second to none. Their equipment is very neutral sounding with no emphasis in any one area. I’m only speaking about their tube equipment. | |
| Audio reviews: too many analogies, never simple, but most of all, never clear. There are a lot of things that most reviewers miss when evaluating a component.Most critical are how components interact with others down and up stream. Also I find it totally ridiculous when a reviewer gives a component a bad review based on only... | |
| Audio reviews: too many analogies, never simple, but most of all, never clear. I’ve learned to just go to the conclusion and take it with a grain of salt. They never give you information that truly matters like: room size, cables, and associated equipment. If they do it’s never clear. | |
| Pass X150.5 or Odyssey Stratos monos? I owned Kismet extremes for 3 years. Never really enjoyed them that much. Very smooth sounding but when it came to musicality they never really cut the cake.Besides they’re very quirky amps: Need to be biased to each speaker to sound their best, m... | |
| Audio Research D400 mk2 Might be time to have those caps replaced before you run into a serious problem.20 years is were you start to see them fail. I actual believe D400 mk2 was discontinued in 96 that would make your unit at least 24 years old. |