immatthewj
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| Finally upgrading my amp @jjbeason14 , if you love your current speakers (in this case your B&Ws) putting some better electronics in front of them will make you love them even more. I have an ancient (30 year old) pair of B&W 805s (Matrix’s) and I have played aro... | |
| Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact? . . . what a representative from the sales department at Cary Direct once told me (the Cary people will actually talk to you on the phone if you want to buy something) when I called to inquire about the Amperex Bugle Boy 6DJ8s that Cary Direct was... | |
| Best Covers . . . and now I remember buying a Tom Russell CD (Indians, Cowboys, Horses And Dogs) for his cover of Lily, Rosemary, And The Jack Of Hearts. | |
| Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact? I will preface what I am going to type about JJs and EHs by emphatically stating that I do not have the golden ear, I do not own a tube tester, and I make no claims whatsoever to be a tube or audio guru. My current preamp (SLP 05) came with six E... | |
| Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion. Now I guess I am going to have to go back and check my spades. (I am bi-wired, so at the amp end I actually do have a pair of bananas and a pair of spades.) But I cannot ever recollect any of my spades coming loose. I tighten them as tight as I... | |
| 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. . . . and actually, it looks as if it was two answers for outputs>signals versus one answer for signals>outputs. . . . | |
| Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact? @hilde45 , I am only relating to OP what I was told by Andy of Vintage Tubes many moons ago, and what my own experience was with replacing Svetlanta 6550s with NOS Tunsol 6550s. I do not claim that either Andy's advice or my own experience is go... | |
| Best Covers A few more covers that Bob Dylan did that I remember I liked in my childhood were Lily Of The West, Spanish Is The Loving Tongue, and Big Yellow Taxi. | |
| Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact? Going on about 30 years ago I spoke with Andy of Vintage Tubes (in Michigan) with basically this same question. I was interested in retubing (with NOS) a pair of ARC VTM 120s (6922s and 6550s) and a Cary SLP90 (12au7s). Andy's advice (which I fol... | |
| Best Covers . . . and on that note, I will recognize Bob Dylan's cover of Mr. Bojangles. Janis Joplin covering Me And Bobby McGee, maybe? | |
| Songs you use when auditioning gear I haven't auditioned gear for quite a while, but if I was going to I'd probably use the Cowboy Junkies cover of Sweet Jane off the Analogue Productions SACD. I have a couple of Patricia Barber Cafe Blue SACDs and I'd probably use assorted tracks ... | |
| Best Covers There was a poster on the dimeadozen torrent site several years ago who was a huge Dylan fan and he put together a compilation series of various artists performing live versions of Dylan covers. @ezwind , that made me think of Bob Dylan coveri... | |
| Sound and Music I'd say that when I was searching for sound I discovered jazz and found that I kind of like it. (I cannot say the same about kind of liking classical. Yet.) I'd also say that I would prefer sound AND music, but if given the choice of music I li... | |
| Best Covers . . . here’s another one I just thought of that used to blow me away: from Dave Alvin And The Guilty Men’s Interstate City CD: the Jubilee Train/Do Re Mi/Promised Land medley absolutely rocks! | |
| Best and Worst customer service? Back in the Dennis Had days, the customer service at Cary Audio Design was fantastic! There was gentleman named Kirk Owens working there who was absolutely great! He would answer any and all questions I had whenever I needed to call CAD on the p... |