hilde45
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| Audiophiles and De-cluttering -- your journey toward both psychic and sonic improvement The only clutter that needs to be kept in check really... is the clutter of the mind. That's what we're actually talking about. You nailed it. It still requires discussion, though. | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? Just to let the thread know, the advice here from @atmasphere and others caused me to go find a newly built Dynaco ST-35. It should ship soon. I bought on Ebay. Here's the description: "This beautiful, newly built amp is now for sale. I have used... | |
| Audiophiles and De-cluttering -- your journey toward both psychic and sonic improvement markmoskow -- great suggestions! Thanks. audphile1 thanks for your suggestions and experience. ”High performance sound bar”? Yeah, like one that doesn’t suck, is even decent. The performance is measured by the job it has to do. TV, Movies. So... | |
| Audiophiles and De-cluttering -- your journey toward both psychic and sonic improvement What is a de-clutter power cord looks like? It looks like not having more power cords than components with which to use them. I like the ideas here! I'm also thinking of going from 5.1 to 2.1 for HT. As with @ghdprentice I want to get rid of... | |
| Collectibles signed by musicians. What do you have? Miles Davis's album Bitches Brew signed by Teo Macero. | |
| Who is Roon? I find Roon to be quite useful. Worth the money to me. For all the useless things we spend our money on, Roon is easily still worth it. (I mean, anyone have a streaming service that they barely watch any show on? Buy a Starbucks coffee you didn't ... | |
| The $27,900 disappointment? Wilson Audio Watt Puppy 8 issues. Does anyone know if there has ever been a pair of speakers sent to him that he couldn't improve? Just says "nothing to be done here, it's perfect". I've seen such videos, I think. But they're rare. They could be instances of honesty on his part... | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? @alexberger Here's what my tech friend and amp builder said about your comment, in case you're interested: "It doesn't [have an interstage transformer], but then again most single-ended amps don't have an interstage transformer, nor most PP amps ... | |
| HAVE CABLES EVER TAKEN YOUR SYSTEM FROM SOUNDING JUST OK TO SOUNDING GREAT? Experiences ? Marginal compared to other changes. I'm still committed to my decent cables (DAC to Preamp, Preamp to Amp) but in my system, I do not hear much difference from power cables. Will likely sell the unwieldy ones off. | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? @cfarrow Thanks for relating all that. Really interesting. FWIW, last night I did some listening comparisons comparing the Sun Valley 845 vs. QS Mono 60 w/ KT77 tubes. I used my solid state amp (very neutral) and my Holo Spring DAC. All of my des... | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? Wow! Thank you @jetter and @atmasphere for the additional comments. The thread is really becoming a resource for others, as well as for me. | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? @mattw73 Thanks for your detailed response. Very generous of you! The GU50 looks interesting and I like those guys too | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? Thanks for the Dynaco ST-70 et al. suggestions. Since I am already running a Quicksilver Mono 60 with KT-77 tubes, I'm not sure this amp is really going to sound all that different. If I stick with the vacation analogy, I want to emphasize that I ... | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? Thanks for the feedback and glad some like the vacation analogy. I’ve heard from a reputable source that if a Dennis Had amp breaks he is near impossible to get in touch with and does not share schematics that this tech needed to fix it. Only aft... | |
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