honest1
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| I get 70 of the Live Symphony Experience at home If you strip away 90% of the timbral accuracy of an instrument, what are you left with? A fundamental frequency and some discordant buzzing? Every instrument would sound like a test tone or worse. We can easily hear 5% Harmonic distortion - what w... | |
| Bel Canto DAC3 vs Theta Gen Viii Thanks for the info, Cytocycle. One of the things I was hoping to improve over my current GNSC modified Wadia 850 (and was hoping the Theta might be the one to do it) was in the sense of airiness and spaciousness. I had heard a Simaudio player tha... | |
| Tube CDP/DAC sound: too "refined"? Detlof - How long ago did you hear the offensive Burmester system? I ask because I heard a Burmester system at CES a couple years ago, and it was one of hte most musically engaging systems I heard - very detailed and revealing to be sure, but one ... | |
| Tube CDP/DAC sound: too "refined"? Smooth would probably mean lacking texture. | |
| Bel Canto DAC3 vs Theta Gen Viii Cytocycle - what else have you compared your Theta to? Anything from Wadia? How did they all fare? | |
| Tube CDP/DAC sound: too "refined"? I have to agree with Bob and not just in terms of CD players, but amps as well - there is no one tube sound; their are many flavors of tube sound, and smooth and rolled off is just one of them. I haven't heard a lot of tube CD players, but my Atma... | |
| Playing fine presses with an unknown cart Tough it out. If you play them on your current table, you'll always wonder if you did any damage, even if no damage was done at all. | |
| Get a better turntable or better phono preamp? Nrchy - If the answer is save even more money to get an even better phono stage, what good is dropping the money now on a TT, and putting off the phono stage even longer? | |
| Clement Perry's new reference speaker I agree with some of the above posts. Some brands are shooting stars; they appear out of nowhere, are ll the rage for a while, then disappear. During their moment in the sun, the 'gon is loaded with ads for people selling them, then they seem to d... | |
| 6SN7 Tung Sol Reissue Mullard 12AX7 any comments? I got them from TubeStore.com. TubeDepot has them also; both sell them for $15.00 each. How often do you typically replace tubes? I'm really wondering how much of what I heard was due to the age of the ElectroHarmonix tubes. If you try them out, l... | |
| 6SN7 Tung Sol Reissue Mullard 12AX7 any comments? OK, I got my TungSol RI 6SN7s. Visually, there was little difference. Eveything you can see looks identical except for the color of the plates. The EH have gray plates, the TS have black. I put 5 in one AtmaSphere MA1, and left the Electro Harmoni... | |
| Problem - HF "Chirping" Using Turntable Does it do it only when the tuntable is turning? Will it do it when the pre-amp is set to phono, but the turntable is not turning? | |
| Good turntables w/o record clamps I've been wondering if the clamp could imbed dirt into the back side of the record. Do those in the clamp camp take special pains to ensure the platter and back side of the record are clean before clamping? | |
| 6SN7 Tung Sol Reissue Mullard 12AX7 any comments? All right, I couldn't stand waiting for someone else, so I just ordered a half dozen to try in my Atmasphere MA1s. When I come to any conclusions, I'll post back here - probably not until after the new year, though. I wioll be comparing to regular... | |
| 6SN7 Tung Sol Reissue Mullard 12AX7 any comments? I've been considering trying the reissue 6sn7s, but looking at the pictures, they look just like the regular Electro Harmonix tubes. They do not look like the round plate tubes. I can't tell if there is any difference internally. New Sensor doesn'... |