immatthewj
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Well mastered Compact Disks On those MFSL SACDs I alluded to: I note that your OP was referring to red-book, but that’s what my CD player was when I first tried them. The red-book layer sounded so good I bought a SA10 to see what I might be missing that was on SACD. | |
What selections do you play when showing off your system to others? Sometimes it's even worse when someone has a reputedly worse system (acc to reviewers etc) that sounds better than yours! @cd318 that would have bummed me out. This guys ears are way better than mine, but speakers aside, I have wayyyy more $ ... | |
New Dennis Had amps @tinear123 , if you go on Ebay, using "Dennis Had for search engine might get you there and you could 'message user.' I believe his Ebay name is "Radioman" but I am not positive. | |
Well mastered Compact Disks I have a Japanese digital pressing of Holly Cole/It Happened One Night that has a sense of presence and immediacy that does it pretty good. | |
Well mastered Compact Disks I also have 4 digital pressings (two of them are SACDs) of Patricia Barber/Cafe Blue, and the three I have listened to (including the red book) sound fantastic. MFSL’s old red-books of Elton John/Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Moody Blues/On The T... | |
Audio Research - should I replace the valves? @cey , well, it took Jim a lot longer to get a batch of 12 together than it did Uncle Kevin, and once Jim took payment he would email me ever so often to let me know what stage he was in in the process of burning them in & testing. Which is ... | |
Well mastered Compact Disks I think most of the MFSL SACDs I have bought are really pretty good. A few monthes ago I bought (I think it is Analogue Productions) Cowboy Junkies/Trinity Sessions SACD and it just about blows me away. | |
Whats the weirdest concert you ever attended? I am not sure which concert would meet the criteria. Maybe Boston in 1979 because I am pretty sure that the stuff we were smoking was not just cannabis? Santana in 1981 because I pretty much passed out & cannot remember it? The Grateful De... | |
What selections do you play when showing off your system to others? I’ve found the best way to show my system off to others is to let them control the queue. While the listener may appreciate analyzing the music you play, they will likely not resonate emotionally with it because they don’t know it very well. @b... | |
What selections do you play when showing off your system to others? I am digital only, and right now my first choice would probably be Cowboy Junkies?Trinity Sessions on my (I think, Analogue Productions) SACD. I would also use my MFSL SACDs of Dire Straits self titled or DireStraits/Love Over Gold (particularly... | |
Audio Research - should I replace the valves? No sweat, @cey . anyway, the last time I bought output tubes was a couple of years ago; I bought a dozen of the reissued Tungsol EL34s from Jim McShane to replace a dozen of the reissued Mullards that I bought from Uncle Kevin that didn't last v... | |
Audio Research - should I replace the valves? @ghdprentice upscale audio quite ("paused") sellin tubes this past april. @cey , when was the last time you checked? Uncle Kevin has been selling tubes again for a while now. | |
Audio Research - should I replace the valves? I've owned and steadily enjoyed a McIntosh MC275 tube amp and C2600 tube preamp since late 2017. I've never tried to estimate the cumulative hrs. of listening, but it's up there. I purchased a complete replacement set of replacement tubes for b... | |
Audio Research - should I replace the valves? Thanks all. Not sure whether biasing the valves is beyond my skills but will have a read. Stupid question but assume you fit them and then do the bias? (Told you I might not be up to the job!) Could be that the bias has gotten way low & jus... | |
New Dennis Had amps give credit where it is due, dennis had founded cary audio, and was the sole owner before its sale @jjss49 that was good to point that out. |