hilde45
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| The $10,000 Question If space is limited, you might consider Dutch and Dutch. | |
| Amp — Leave on or turn off Our contribution to pollution by leaving our amplifiers on can’t even be measured. I’m not saying we don’t need to be conscious about it, but the environmentalists on this thread…you guys are barking up a wrong tree. I agree with the underlying... | |
| A valentine poem to tubes These are great! Ok, this is too mean by half but... There once was a solid-state boob Who ridiculed fussy red tubes. Till one day, at leisure, He imbibed their sweet pleasure And understood he was the rube. And the retort from the SS folks: T... | |
| Expectation and musical perception "prior knowledge in the brain actually changes what we perceive when listening to music." My take: What has been called subjectivity is actually objective, and what is objective is experienced as subjective. In other words: We can now get rid o... | |
| Looking for Sub to pair with Dynaudio Confidence 20s REL is good but overpriced and lacks variable phase. | |
| Amp — Leave on or turn off I notice that my amp sounds better after I eat a croissant. Coincidence? Hard to say. ;-) | |
| 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 ... |