hilde45
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| RCA 9289 tube amplifiers @tomic601 Thanks. I don't know how many "orange caps" there are out there. I'm replacing mine with Mundorfs and if it goes south, I'll change them back. | |
| "warm" solid state integrated amplifier The usual gear or tweaks/room dilemma seems to have arisen again on this thread. I don't see why they're opposed. The OP is looking for a warmer sound. We don't know the extent to which the OP has dealt with isolation and other tweaks, nor do we ... | |
| Tube Amp, Preamp upgrades -- what did you do that improved your units? @axo0oxa Thanks for your caution. It creates some indeterminacy to do multiple caps at once, but if it works, it works big. That's a gamble, and if there weren't other quicksilver owners testifying to the benefits, it would be perhaps too much. Bu... | |
| Tube Amp, Preamp upgrades -- what did you do that improved your units? I have benefited from other people who have had experience with asking them about this question. It is denied that anything needs to be improved and there is definitely a lack of sympathy for the question itself. the room is not the issue. The... | |
| Tube Amp, Preamp upgrades -- what did you do that improved your units? @wsphohn I appreciate your opinion. I’m not swayed. This gear, as Grannyring and decooney have pointed out, is clearly built to a price point. It is not in the league of better Curl or Berning gear. A $4 Orange cap as being intentionally part of a... | |
| Belles Aria Signature and other Int Amp recommendation There are a few things out there used that would probably catch my attention, given your parameters (hope I stuck to them!): https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisab24j-black-ice-audio-f22-50wpc-balanced-integrated-tube-amp-tube https://www.au... | |
| Ready For Digital Source...Computer? @high-amp If you don't necessarily want to spend a lot, consider a Raspberry Pi. https://darko.audio/tag/raspberry-pi/ | |
| Ready For Digital Source...Computer? You can't find anything online about this?https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+set+up+computer+as+a+high+quality+music+server | |
| Great song to test bass Jim Smith book I'm reading (Get Better Sound) cautions against setting up the bass with too much of a focus on bass. There's a danger of not attending sufficiently to soundstage and voice. His book is better on this, but here's a bit of his thinki... | |
| Pat Martino @stuartk Right place, right time. You know, a few years before Philly when I was in high school, I took an address of the back of an album and wrote to one of my other idols, Steve Khan, about taking lessons. He said he could do it and also sugges... | |
| Pat Martino I was mainly working through a system he had developed where one plays diminished chords up and down the neck; these chords, with one note variation here or there, would give you another useful chord. Kind of hard to describe but very much a path ... | |
| Who Tried Power Conditioners Over The Years and No Longer Use Them Today, Any Why? One thing that has changed since the 90's is the explosion of devices that make up the average home. I'm sure there are papers out there that document how much the noise environment has changed. | |
| Tube Amp, Preamp upgrades -- what did you do that improved your units? Very enjoyable, civil, and educative thread. Really appreciate your experience, your cautions, your calculations about benefits/detriments, and your descriptions of the many factors which make it hard to claim too much certainty about a lot of thi... | |
| Audiophile virtues Very energetic take-down of Harley. I think you might prefer Jim Smith’s "Get Better Sound."Harley’s book is like an encyclopedia for me, not a bible. I’m an enthusiast not because it is "porn," but because it contains facts, explanations. Lots of... | |
| Tube Amp, Preamp upgrades -- what did you do that improved your units? @aricaudio Thanks for the comments on the Odams. I'm planning on just the preamp for them. Will likely avoid the Miflex.In the end, not all components will produce the same results with the same upgrades and the overall system voicing will dictate... |