hilde45
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| Finally upgrading my amp Great suggestions here: Rogue, Peachtree, Hegel. Shopping at The Music Room will net you a great, checked out piece. Here's a search result with a bunch of good options selected. Here's the CERTIFIED PRE-OWNED list I chose from what is currentl... | |
| Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact? We have one answer that says power tube> signal tubes and another that says signal tubes>output tubes. Hmmm. | |
| Sound and Music The problem you are raising is the one which separated Plato from Aristotle. Plato said the form can and must exist above and beyond the matter. Aristotle said the two were permanently entangled. This is a very old division which you are trying... | |
| Looking for Sub to pair with Dynaudio Confidence 20s I don’t really understand why subs need to be "paired" with speakers. Doesn’t the question come down to sub type, room size, style, and price? After all, most subs will be able to assume the burder of reproducing frequencies below almost any spe... | |
| Songs you use when auditioning gear @soix I’m a huge Steely Dan fan. Gaucho is recorded like crap on CD and don’t use that to judge anything. I was very glad to read this. I am a huge Steely fan also, and I always thought that Gaucho was a gold standard reference -- I remember ... | |
| Help me pick some new or used speaker cables Answer, courtesy of Google Gemini: Wireworld Eclipse 8 Biwired Speaker Cable (2.5m/Spades): ($2,450) These offer pure Ohno Continuous-Cast copper conductors and OCC Silver Tri-Helix technology, known for clarity and detail. However, they might no... | |
| Songs you use when auditioning gear Ma recordings. Chesky recordings. Blue Coast recordings. | |
| Here's to the temperate, the gentle, the moderates in audio @flynehome Thank you for your compliment. I think by this point, we're all tired of the nattering nabobs of negativism and the blowhards on the internet. We're really really tired. They need to get a life and stop harshing the mellow of good peop... | |
| What qualities stand out in really good solid state preamps? @audition__audio I think it more advisable to feed your S.S. amp with a tubed preamp and in my experience this seems more common. It's more advisable if the question is "What's better? Tubed or SS preamp?" But, if you read the OP, you'll see ... | |
| Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion. @hilde45 Bananas are not actually meant for gorillas. 🤣 So what do you use instead?? Hey! I resemble that remark! I have some cables with spades. I have some cables with bananas on them. When they break, I strip the wire and thread them thr... | |
| Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion. I test a lot of amps with my speakers. Bananas get compressed, bent, and broken on a semi regular basis. Admittedly, I'm an experimenter these days and for most people, they just plug it in occasionally. | |
| Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion. @erik_squires I like this topic. So, serious question for you: What about banana plugs that compress and get looser over time? | |
| Value of a preamp? Arguable, all preamps "color" the sound. Instead, I prefer "season" to "color," since that’s all any audio equipment is doing -- presenting artifacts of sound for delectation. Nothing is untouched. It’s all artifactual. | |
| Value of a preamp? A good tubed preamp will greatly enhance your sound period. kennyc: I disagree, as there are satisfying SS preamps also such as Dartzeel, Audionet, Griffon Commander… it depends on the execution and of course user preference. There is nothi... | |
| Building your music digital music collection I see no reason to store files. If the system that provides our music goes down, we'll have much larger problems. |