immatthewj
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| Finally upgrading my amp You also might takea look on Music Direct and plug in "integrated" into the search box (as I just did) and see if anything comes up in your price range that piques your interest. The beauty of MD is that they have a 60 day audition period, but I ... | |
| 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! |